> According to the race data, Finney competed in the “Santa Barbara Running Company Chardonnay 10 Miler & 5K,” starting at 8 am Pacific time and finishing the race at 78 minutes.
> The race, however, coincides with timestamped emails between Satoshi and one of the first Bitcoin developers, Mike Hearn.
EDIT> Am I being downvoted by people upset that I am suggesting it wasn't Hal or because of my nebulous statement? Oh nvm
But no, any attempt to investigate the origins of Satoshi will be viciously attacked by the same twenty or so individuals who show up everywhere to defend this modern day hermes trismegistus mystery, which has proved infinitely useful, not to mention fun, to keep propped up.
Amusingly for the typical HN CJ, slashdot fell off my radar when Google Reader left us. I had been an avid /. reader for years, but had transitioned to reading through RSS. It went downhill during that time and I never picked it back up.
Still, good memories.
which makes me lean towards Adam Back or Paul Le Roux.
personally I like to think it was Le Roux, which would be insane if true.
https://news.bitcoin.com/the-many-facts-pointing-to-paul-le-...
maybe. he was really trying to hide is identity.
i guess its an occams razor type of thing.
he did also encode the headline from the front page of a British newspaper in the first transaction i believe.
https://monnos.com/en/blog/genesis-block-chancellor-on-brink...
If you read about it you will come to the same conclusion.
All others can be easily eliminated.
However, if these were the two reasons behind keeping his identity secret, wouldn't Hal Finney be also the kind of person who leaves some kind of digital trace that confirms his identity as creator even after he is dead? Like automating the execution of a transaction on the genesis block or something?
Apart from wanting to take credit and glory of being creator, he must have had very interesting "war stories" to share concerning the creation of bitcoin, his feelings as he saw it grow... this would have been a very interesting memoir to share with the world.
I am wondering if he left such a document somewhere that will suddenly decrypt itself to the world along with irrefutable evidence of his invention of bitcoin.
doesnt that mean the keys "have" been used? I thought the original keys had never been used? Or is it just no money has moved?
What is the paper? Any link? I've never heard this claim before.
I think it's deeply flawed and anthropocentric.
[1] From early crypto? In the trash, mainly. But it ramped up production, which is what fictional "Satoshi" would want.
which tbh is just the kind of thing someone involved with bitcoin would say, its just funny and ironic.
