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Re:Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you th... by adastra22 on Monday January 22, 2024 @01:40PM (#39093452)
Satoshi is dead, unfortunately.
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Re:Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you th... by octopoc on Monday January 22, 2024 @01:54PM (#39093650)
He died, yes. But then He rose again.
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Re:Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you th... by kibwen on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:04PM (#39093809)
Unfortunately they sealed the tomb with a cryptographically-secure boulder this time and they've been waiting patiently in the dark for someone to decipher the pattern in the public keys so they can be released.

(Obligatory disclaimer: this is a joke, do not go making a religion out of this.)

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Re:Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you th... by lcof on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:37AM (#39100579)
But was it military-grade encryption?
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Re:Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you th... by jonahbenton on Monday January 22, 2024 @01:53PM (#39093646)
Who was it, do you think?
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Re:Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you th... by adastra22 on Monday January 22, 2024 @03:13PM (#39094782)
https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...
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Re:Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you th... by bmulcahy on Monday January 22, 2024 @03:27PM (#39094946)
My money's on Hal Finney.
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Re:Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you th... by greyface- on Monday January 22, 2024 @10:18PM (#39099181)
How do you reconcile this with the fact that Satoshi sent both an email and a bitcoin transaction while Hal was busy running a 10 mile race? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37974155
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Re:Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you th... by mr_sturd on Monday January 22, 2024 @01:57PM (#39093706)
Most likely Szabo.
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Re:Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you th... by adastra22 on Monday January 22, 2024 @03:13PM (#39094778)
There's no way it was Szabo, although Szabo likes people to think it was him. Szabo's ideas for p2p currency were directly opposed to the structure of bitcoin, and he continued professing these views and critiques of bitcoin long after bitcoin was launched and achieved some measure of success.
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Re:Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you th... by TacticalCoder on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:05PM (#39093827)
Wait, is Nick Szabo dead? I find conflicting information on the Net.
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