Bitcoin Creator Suspect Says He is Not Bitcoin Creator Suspect (theregister.com) 36
The man identified as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in a new HBO documentary has something to say: Wrong again, world. From a report: In the just-released HBO film on the history of the world's biggest digital currency -- Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery -- documentary filmmaker Cullen Hoback comes to the conclusion that the anonymous creator of Bitcoin was none other than a long-time member of the community and early Bitcoin developer Peter Todd. Todd dismissed the claim in the documentary, released yesterday, and denied it again when asked by The Register.
"[Hoback's] evidence for me being Satoshi is the same kind of coincidence-based, circumstantial thinking that fuels conspiracies like QAnon," Todd told us in an email. "Which is ironic, given that [Hoback's] previous big project was a documentary on QAnon. He clearly didn't try to debunk his theories either." Hoback's previous project -- Q: Into the Storm -- aimed to unmask the person behind QAnon, perhaps giving him an interest in uncovering the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Todd, however, thinks Hoback was just trying to drum up interest in his new film.
"I think [Hoback] only included the Satoshi claim as a marketing ploy: he was really creating a documentary about Bitcoin, and needed a hook to get media attention," Todd said. "He picked me to accuse mainly because I was an unlikely candidate, which helped drum up even more attention. I don't think he had any interest in finding the real truth."
"[Hoback's] evidence for me being Satoshi is the same kind of coincidence-based, circumstantial thinking that fuels conspiracies like QAnon," Todd told us in an email. "Which is ironic, given that [Hoback's] previous big project was a documentary on QAnon. He clearly didn't try to debunk his theories either." Hoback's previous project -- Q: Into the Storm -- aimed to unmask the person behind QAnon, perhaps giving him an interest in uncovering the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Todd, however, thinks Hoback was just trying to drum up interest in his new film.
"I think [Hoback] only included the Satoshi claim as a marketing ploy: he was really creating a documentary about Bitcoin, and needed a hook to get media attention," Todd said. "He picked me to accuse mainly because I was an unlikely candidate, which helped drum up even more attention. I don't think he had any interest in finding the real truth."
I am not Satoshi Nakamoto (Score:5, Funny)
And neither is my wife!
But I do have first post!
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*stands up*
I am not Satoshi Nakamoto
Home invasion crew will determine if true (Score:2)
contrary to what HBO claims. And neither is my wife!
The home invasion crew will determine that.
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The home invasion crew will determine that.
But if I've got $80 billion, which of my homes are you going to hit?
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The home invasion crew will determine that.
But if I've got $80 billion, which of my homes are you going to hit?
The one with the soundproofed S&M room.
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And either that guy (or, though less likely given CS demographics, gal) is dead, or realised Bitcoin couldn't work and abandoned it... unaware it would catch on with tech libertarians and scammers and they were throwing away a future fortune, and now they are terrified of the attention that would come from discovery.
Nobody is sitting on those originally mined blocks due to strongly held beliefs. Even if it was all a government conspiracy, those coins would have been moved to fund the operation long ago.
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Worth it.
Re: Who cares? (Score:2)
Another reason for the early coins not to move is that everyone knows they belong to satoshi, and any movement of them would be scrutinized to the extreme and could lead to his real identity being discovered.
And it's quite likely that satoshi has control of many other wallets, that people don't know are his, and that are full enough.
ie. He has enough anonymous bitcoins so that he doesn't need the ones that aren't anonymous.
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It does not matter who exactly the bitcoin creator was, if it was even a single person.
False. It absolutely matters who the mystery person is who has a suspected wealth of $80bn USD. That would make them the 17th wealthiest person in the world and the people with that much wealth have an incredible ability to influence the lives of everyone.
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a suspected wealth of $80bn USD ... people with that much wealth have an incredible ability to influence the lives of everyone.
That's about $240 per US person. I think we could pass the hat and easily mount a counter offensive against any hypothetical evil they might do.
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Re: Who cares? (Score:2)
Do you have a source on that? I've seen that claim elsewhere but couldn't find more info.
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Including a quote disparaging crypto from someone who *died* seven years before any cryptographic p;ayment method was invented, and 21 years before the creation of Bitcoin, doesn't do much for his credibility either.
Its just the modern Tulip Game (Score:2)
More accurate description of Bitcoin: (Score:1)
Bitcoin is the digital currency equivalent of Donald J. Trump:
All pumped (and trumped) up as being "massively valuable & successful", wrapped in a thin layer of golden-orange luster. The slightest scratch of the surface reveals what's truly underneath: a stinking piece of shit.
Very effective marketing (Score:4, Insightful)
"I think [Hoback] only included the Satoshi claim as a marketing ploy: he was really creating a documentary about Bitcoin, and needed a hook to get media attention,"
And, its working. I've seen two stories already about this.
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And, its working. I've seen two stories already about this.
Yup, back at the "Pump" part of the never-ending "pump and dump" scheme.
This is just two charlatans doing a duet... (Score:2)
Every single piece of coverage of this documentary is an ad for the documentary. Every single second of the documentary is an ad for Peter Todd. Every single statement made by Peter Todd is an ad for Bitcoin.
There's
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Disregard that, I am^H^H suck Satoshi Nakamotos
He IS the suspect, (Score:2)
he's just not the creator.
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I suspect the headline is a little suspect.
REPEAT: I am Neegan. (Score:3)
I am Satoshi.
That's all this is. The whole Neegan thing in a small subset of folks who may have some skills, but no one can prove a thing. This is hardly the first person to state, "I am Satoshi," only to be found out later that there's no possibility of them actually being Satoshi. I seriously think this is an "I am Neegan" situation. Keep things confused enough and nobody will notice the real Satoshi, if he/she/they even exist. Forgive me for not adding more possible pronouns. I forgot my cheat sheet on my home workstation this morning.
Climate crime (Score:2)
If I was Satoshi i would never admit committing such crime against the planet.
Someone please pass onto college film lecturers (Score:1)
Thou doth deny too much (Score:2)
Only the true messiah denies his divinity
why does anyone care? (Score:2)
I really don't understand.
The guy wants his privacy, whoever he is.