Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you there?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5481972.0

by silvanoshei • 3 years ago

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sp332• 3 years ago

Does the diagram actually show something? It kinda looks like a uniform distribution.

mixedmath• 3 years ago

With an unhelpful Voronoi diagram on top.

platz• 3 years ago

What are the "clusters" clustering anyway... no info on what properties we're indexing here

stephenitis• 3 years ago

While pursuing this approach, I've lost everything in my life and now find myself in financial and personal ruin. Just as I was losing hope, I extracted Satoshi's public keys and noticed a pattern. The letter 'S' in Satoshi corresponds to the 19th letter in the English alphabet, and in Japanese culture, 19 symbolizes 'intense suffering', which mirrors my current life situation..

humor?

system22• 3 years ago

Most definitely it is.

system22• 3 years ago

I know it is a fantasy but the real "Satoshi" responding to this post would do unfathomable things to Bitcoin right now. I just enjoyed the thought of it for a second.

adastra223• 3 years ago

Satoshi is dead, unfortunately.

jonahbenton• 3 years ago

Who was it, do you think?

octopoc• 3 years ago

He died, yes. But then He rose again.

tcmb• 3 years ago

I think if OP was serious about solving a real mystery here, they would have posted to a cryptography forum, not 'bitcointalk'.

mrkramer2• 3 years ago

Could it be possible that Satoshi had found a way to 'break' the elliptic curve as early as 2009?
Is there a chance that these public keys represent a puzzle, intentionally designed by Satoshi, awaiting a solution?

If you feel happier believing that then you are free to do so. Each of us have our own fantasies.

odyssey72• 3 years ago

Due to the tendency to patch and mitigate known security vulnerabilities, there is a norm within cryptography to assume that parties will possess technologies which are more advanced than are publicly disclosed.

mrkramer2• 3 years ago

there is a norm within cryptography to assume that parties will possess technologies which are more advanced than are publicly disclosed

Who? Satoshi? Pseudonymous C++ programmer coding digital cash experiment in his home. Satoshi wasn't a cryptographer[0].

[0] https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-was-not-a-cryptograph...

Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you there?

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