Bitcoin: who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5951.0

by wslh • 13 years ago

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bfwi• 13 years ago

The stronger the bitcoin exchange rate is, the more stories I see about bitcoin. Or is it the other way around?

Nursie• 13 years ago

Well as its value seems to be driven almost entirely by a combination of hype and fanaticism... either way really :)

hahainternet• 13 years ago

What else do you propose would set its value? It's not exactly correlated to precious metal so the exchange value is really the only definition isn't it?

damian2000• 13 years ago

"Satoshi Nakamoto was the pseudonymous person or group of people who designed and created the original bitcoin protocol and launched the bitcoin network." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Satoshi_Nakamoto

-- I think that pretty much sums it up ... likely one or more people who wanted to remain anonymous.

Zarathust• 13 years ago

This is only speculation as the source cited for this info on wikipedia is a wired article which is not very good for factual information.

guruz• 13 years ago

More dense information than in this forum thread here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

halviti• 13 years ago

Why link to some random forum post? This is a terrible submission.

There has been much speculation on the subject, you could have chosen from a lot of decent articles like this:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_...

or this:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/10/race-unmas...

I'd rather read posts from above-top-secret than the bitcoin forums.

DividesByZero• 13 years ago

Wow, the comments on that forum are certainly an interesting insight into the weird sort of paranoia/megalomania that leads people to become Bitcoin zealots -

"Satoshi definitely saw this as a strike against the malignant forces that national fiat currencies and the parasitic monetary/finance system has become.

Enslaving us all in unpayable debts and endless taxation for wars and bankster bonuses ... it is now a criminal system that will go down in history and those at top aren't doing squat to change it, except personal enrichment. (Oh but we are chasing bad guys playing poker online, trading goldbits and smoking weed on their couches ... whatta a load of BS)."

mtgx2• 13 years ago

Why does it matter?

myhf2• 13 years ago

The creators of bitcoin still control something like 25% of all bitcoins, which gives them a huge amount of leverage in manipulating the bitcoin economy. So it's interesting that nobody knows who they are.

http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf

jerfelix• 13 years ago

Where did you get that, out of that PDF? The number 25% sounds extremely high.

I have read this PDF before, a while ago, and I don't remember that stat. A quick glance tells me that they say that 2 addresses have over 500,000 Bitcoins, but that's just 4.6% (or more, obviously) of the total 10.7M issued so far. And there's no proof that this is the creator of Bitcoin. In fact, it's more likely one of the large exchanges!

So, please help me understand your statement. If it's buried in the text of that PDF, my apologies.

nym• 13 years ago

I'm betting it's PG ;-)

TBCM• 13 years ago

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Bitcoin: who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

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