Someone’s Threatening to Expose Bitcoin Founder Satoshi Nakamoto

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/satoshi/

by berberous • 12 years ago

41 19 12 years ago

rabbyte2• 12 years ago

“The fool used a primary gmx under his full name...”

Really didn't want to read past that quote. In one corner you have Jeffrey; he can get into your email and sell your livelihood to the highest bidder. In the other corner you have Satoshi; he delivered to you, for free and without praise, a crucial bit of tech that allows you to regain some control in an increasingly authoritarian world. Ya... what a fool.

bagels• 12 years ago

It's not exactly free, Satoshi imposed an inflation tax on the currency by mining many early coins. I don't think that's necessarily wrong for Satoshi to have done though.

rabbyte2• 12 years ago

True and he technically received credit too. I suppose I meant it didn't cost you anything and he's receiving no special attention for it.

justinpombrio• 12 years ago

Who's to say a fool couldn't be the better man?

(Not that Satoshi's a fool.)

iamleppert• 12 years ago

What an ass. How about this? I'll pay someone $20k in bitcoin to bring this Jeffrey to justice. Hate, hate people like him.

Cybershambles3• 12 years ago

Sad story if this is true. Regardless, I'm not shocked that the gmx was hacked..

I'm shocked nobody at cardreaderfactory.com hasn't leaked the invoice or any of the other third party companies he's likely had direct business with -- If he's just shipping stock to his home. ETA til their customer DB is dumped?

berberous2• 12 years ago

Since this info has posted both here and on Reddit: the name/address is easily recoverable. Address doesn't show up on Google, name doesn't match anybody obvious. Payment type for the FGPA that was ordered was 'cash'. I'd bet this was just a fake order somebody placed, and the company never did an e-mail validation.

Cybershambles3• 12 years ago

So we're looking at the gmx.com account being legitimately hacked -- but Satoshi had good enough opsec to not leak anything interesting from the account.

The hacker gained access to the gmx.com mailbox - resets all of the third party accounts and still comes out with nothing of value?!!

1) So he has to fake an invoice to gain media buzz? I don't buy it.

2) What's in the outbox?

cmapes• 12 years ago

I thought ransom was supposed to work by making the person whom you have secret information pay you NOT to disclose the info. Especially if this "Jeffrey" knows the the Satoshi's true identity like the hacker says. That's not even mentioning that Satoshi almost certainly has way more than $20k in bitcoin (likely 100's of millions of dollars) and has a real interest in preserving anonymity. Wouldn't that make him personally the obvious target to extort?

Or maybe this "Jeffrey" is full of bs and has no real information, which would explain why he's trying to get money from the public. Obvious troll seems obvious.

dogecoinbase• 12 years ago

Exactly. And, if he felt like being taken seriously, he could prove a dox only to SN (release a hash of his hometown or first name or something). He's got nothing (or is incredibly dumb).

malbs• 12 years ago

Explain to me why people would want to harm Satoshi? What purpose would harming him serve? The tech is already out in the wild

gkoberger2• 12 years ago

The logic is that he (might) have access to millions and millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin. But of course, it would be next to impossible to convert any of that to USD as soon as people found out what had happened. If they currency didn't crumble, nobody was accept coins that could be traced back to the wallets.

He's probably (physically) safe, although look at how the faux SN was mobbed. Imagine if he were real. He'd be harassed, and anything he did or said would affect Bitcoin and undermine his intents for it.

dobbsbob• 12 years ago

GMX has pretty poor spam filters judging by the inbox screencaps. 11,000+ spam emails in inbox and only 2 in spam folder.

verroq• 12 years ago

Pastebin images hosted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8288450

And analysis: http://i.imgur.com/y0Ee8cl.png

Conclusion (IMHO): It's fake (address doesn't exist).

dang• 12 years ago

Although this article has more context, the main thread is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8287905. If people think we should change the url on that one, we can do so.

gkoberger2• 12 years ago

This Wired article + HN comments are interesting, however is most likely completely fake. The linked HN section is much more based in fact. Both, however, seem worth reading.

codezero• 12 years ago

This is an interesting thread on reddit about someone who claims to have been blackmailed by the same person: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2fwzcb/the_satoshi_...

He put a bounty on the hacker and the hacker pulled back. Satoshi could offer a much more enticing bounty.

Someone’s Threatening to Expose Bitcoin Founder Satoshi Nakamoto

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