Is this just a case of celebrity worship? Or is there something practical that I'm missing?
I have searched this question online and haven't found any threads discussing it. The only results I've found were threads discussing whom he might be, or why he might have chosen to stay anonymous.
The vast majority of Satoshi Nakamoto's wallets received a 50 BTC block reward and have remained dormant since.
If those resources were to come into play, it could cause a major disruption of the value of bitcoin.
> What good would it do for the rest of us to find out his real identity?
Other people's curiosity isn't about you or some potential good that you receive.
It’s a mystery. People like mysteries. People naturally want to see mysteries solved. It’s that simple.
Either an absolute legend in the sec pub,
or powerful group(s) have incentive to retain the secret.
It's also like those cheap "reddit comments" that are discouraged on HN-- the sort of thing anyone can comment on which most people will find mildly interesting.
The discussion threads are usually low in insight and even contain a lot of outright falsehoods, but the people involved are having fun.
Dave died years ago following depression, before releasing bitcoin he published papers on the topic of Cipher Block Chaining and similar cryptographic tech: https://www.davekleiman.com/
This has already been known for years. There were good reasons to keep his anonimity at the time, especially if you consider that his main customer was the same government where cryptography tech is considered an ammunition. At that time he could face jail for his work, or in the best scenario lose his customers/reputation.
You have to remember that in 2009 and next years, BTC was something only relevant for cybersec researchers and criminals. You would not want to be seen as associated with the latter.
There's a very high chance that Satoshi is some form of modern day Nicolas Bourbaki with a segmented shared key.
Whether it's a majority vote share or an all in or nothing key split, that's a good back story on the long silence, either some are dead or not everybody agrees to move forward on joint releases or cashing in.
I did some research on him and his past activities, and the things that I found on the Web and on the Internet Archive are somewhat compelling.
I will write it up sooner or later as a blog post(the clues that I found).
Would be interested in links to the most personally compelling evidence (in either direction), for those reading.
> In order to resolve Wright's claim of being Satoshi Nakamoto, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) opened a lawsuit against Wright in United Kingdom on 5 February 2024 in London High Court.[46]
I wonder if this will lead anywhere
[1] https://twitter.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1760718747768087033
The world doesn't need Satoshi for Bitcoin to continue working. And so the reason people want to find his identity is because there exist people in the world who lie, cheat, steal and ultimately kill. Those people want to find Satoshi, to punish him for inventing a fair system of economic trade that doesn't cut them into it.
1. The chance that something like Bitcoin is a logical virus and being though of is.not that far fetched. All of it's tec was already here.
2. Just because people believe in Bitcoin and don't understand it doesn't make it fair.
3. People like to think about it because he is still the inventor even if his invention is responsible for a tremendous amount of CO2 and he should be very rich which makes this 'mystery' interesting
And as said in a thread yesterday: Bitcoin doesn't even solve the trust issue.
Also, out of curiosity since I'm here: what trust issue does Bitcoin not solve?
I don’t know why this is, but I do know that it is much, much bigger than Bitcoin.
It’s not about the billions of dollars, it’s not about the mystery. It’s because we are pack animals obsessed with hierarchy and cannot rest as organisms until we identify which people are important.
It could be related to survival in pre-civilized times. Not being aware of the social hierarchy and society’s expectations placed on you based on your position in it could very well have proven to be lethal throughout most of human history.
If Satoshi remains a ghost, it belongs to everyone and it is whatever it is.
I think mostly people only want to prove it isn't Craig Wright.
Let's pretend he does the impossible: what does this look like, in your opinion?
As a layman I think its cool that there's some mystery dude who built something cool, "valuable" (debatable), and then disappeared.
I'd honestly be disappointed if his identity is ever revealed. Even worse would be if it turns out to be some d bag we all know lol.
Yet even before crypto was a thing, Germany always had a thriving community of people concerned with privacy, hell, even the average german prefer to pay in cash to not be tracked. We have CCC and so on.
About the gmx email: I've seen people from abroad using those gmx emails, mainly in the security space. I find it funny because gmx is kinda crappy, full of ads.
