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Re:HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto... by petertodd on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @06:24AM (#41786271)
Exactly.

The world is a big place. It's likely that in 2008 thousands of people had the right skillset to create Bitcoin, any one of which might have done it.

As long as Satoshi wants to stay hidden, we're not going to find them.

Re:HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto... by vizzah on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @07:32AM (#41786710)
Gov/CIA most definitely knows who Satoshi is.

Even if he always used TOR/anonymous IPs, when accessing his @gmx.com account, with the number of sign-in's he had, it must be an absolute certainty, that he want through rogue exit nodes or some other de-anonymization methods we are not aware of, but deployed by gov. agencies.

Re:HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto... by paulpauper on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:44PM (#41790617)
An IP was leaked in 2009 though tied to Satoshi in Los Angles
Re:HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto... by nullc on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @07:52PM (#41794080)
I think that "IP leak" is extremely dubious and is predicated on both misunderstandings of how freenode worked and an incorrect assumption that no one else was running Bitcoin early on.
Re:HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto... by alchemist1e9 on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @11:47PM (#41795318)
It would be great if you could elaborate on that technically. Are you saying Satoshi wasn’t running a node that day? or there were more than the two nodes? I plan to read the code tomorrow they were running and look at the debug.log and would like to understand what you are trying to say technically.
Re:HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto... by acjohnson55 on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @06:19PM (#41793352)
> Gov/CIA most definitely knows who Satoshi is.

This is my assumption. It's too critical a question to leave unanswered, from a national security perspective.

Re:HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto... by olalonde on Friday October 11, 2024 @12:58AM (#41806312)
Why would he be of interest to national security? He is possibly a rich dude, but beyond that?