[rayiner]

If the man wanted privacy, he shouldn't have designed a system that broadcasts every transaction you make out onto the entire internet.

[lucb1e]

Well we haven't exactly found him through this information yet, but disclosing it after the news of earlier today I think is unethical.

[judk]

Please stop repeating all over HN the ridiculous claim that just because something is visible (with enough work to dig through layers of cloaking) then we conclude that its owner wants it to be seen.

It isn't true for government surveillance of our mail and it isn't true with Bitcoin.

[chm]

And well all know that 1-1 = 1. You're confusing concepts here.