[nunobrito]

The identity seems to have been shared initially between 2 people. One of them being Craig Wright, the other is the genius Dave Kleinman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Kleiman

Dave died years ago following depression, before releasing bitcoin he published papers on the topic of Cipher Block Chaining and similar cryptographic tech: https://www.davekleiman.com/

This has already been known for years. There were good reasons to keep his anonimity at the time, especially if you consider that his main customer was the same government where cryptography tech is considered an ammunition. At that time he could face jail for his work, or in the best scenario lose his customers/reputation.

You have to remember that in 2009 and next years, BTC was something only relevant for cybersec researchers and criminals. You would not want to be seen as associated with the latter.

[defrost]

Maybe those two, maybe not.

There's a very high chance that Satoshi is some form of modern day Nicolas Bourbaki with a segmented shared key.

Whether it's a majority vote share or an all in or nothing key split, that's a good back story on the long silence, either some are dead or not everybody agrees to move forward on joint releases or cashing in.

[cbxyp]

Craig Wright is a fraud and there are numerous instances where people have caught him directly contradicting the opinions and factual assertions about code Satoshi wrote. Like a patent troll without any patent.

[mrkramer]

Craig Wright being Satoshi is unpopular opinion in the Bitcoin community but I think there is a good chance that he is indeed Satoshi or that he was a leader of Satoshi group.

I did some research on him and his past activities, and the things that I found on the Web and on the Internet Archive are somewhat compelling.

I will write it up sooner or later as a blog post(the clues that I found).

[DANmode]

I could buy that he's a straggler that was left to "muddy the waters" in search of the "one true" person (or group).

Would be interested in links to the most personally compelling evidence (in either direction), for those reading.

[mrkramer]

>Would be interested in links to the most personally compelling evidence (in either direction), for those reading.

Search for Craig's blog posts and computer security newsletter groups where he was active 15-20 years ago; he talks about P2P networks, hashing(Craig discusses how SHA-1 is vulnerable and not secure anymore), statistics(Poisson distribution, the same statistical model that was mentioned by Satoshi in the Bitcoin whitepaper).

I found some tids and bits that he and "Satoshi" have in common, plus Satoshi used British English and Craig is an Australian. All of this means nothing but either Satoshi is dead or this Australian guy has something to do with Satoshi and Bitcoin because he wouldn't be pushing so hard as Satoshi persona if he was't involved with Bitcoin in one way or another.

Craig also said couple of years ago that he will share his bank statement of him buy the original bitcoin.org domain but he still didn't do it. Again this would be indirect proof but Satoshi signing his private keys won't be happening anytime soon(and anyone can sign keys if s/he steals them, again indirect proof).

[iraKleiman]

this post was written in the year 2009

After reading this, it sounds like a great idea to store files using the SHA-1 for the directory.

I have no idea what this means however, all I know is that SHA-1 and MD5 are hashing algorithms. If I calculate the SHA-1 hash using this ruby script, and I change the file's content (which changes the hash), how do I know where the file is stored then?

My question is then, what are the basics of implementing a SHA-1/file-storage system?

If all of the files are changing content all the time, is there a better solution for storing them, or do you just have to keep updating the hash?

I'm just thinking about how to create a generic file storing system like GoogleDocs, Flickr, Youtube, DropBox, etc., something that you could reuse in different environments (such as storing PubMed journal articles or Cramster homework assignments and tests, or just images like on Flickr). I'd probably store them on Amazon EC2. Just some system so I can say "this is how I'll 99% of the time do file storing from now on", so I can stop thinking about building a solid/consistent way to store files and get onto some real problems.

[iraKleiman]

Compelling evidence is making the price go up so keep talking about satoshi or take my advice and buy whatever is in the red and cheep right now because if this digital money stuff is legit than we are all wealthy

[mrkramer]

computer security mailing list groups*

sry for mixing up the two

[ajvpot]

FYI Craig Wright’s claims are quite contentious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Steven_Wright

[DaSHacka]

From the article:

> In order to resolve Wright's claim of being Satoshi Nakamoto, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) opened a lawsuit against Wright in United Kingdom on 5 February 2024 in London High Court.[46]

I wonder if this will lead anywhere

[iraKleiman]

no its in the wrong court