After he finished his food my wife approached him and asked to take a picture of him for being the first. He blushed and politely declined citing that bitcoin is an anonymous currency. He wished us well, added that bitcoins should already be in our account and left.
My wife called me back and revealed that he refused to take a picture. So I asked her to describe him. She portrayed the guy as a humble polite Japanese man in his 50s. We joked maybe it was Satoshi, but I dismissed the idea. I assumed it was some one from Mt Gox since it was located in Japan.
Today I showed the picture of Satoshi in Newsweek to my wife and she recognized him.
http://bitcoinbabe.blogspot.com/2011/07/bitcoin-sex-drugs-and-baklava-and.html
If nothing else, it's in poor taste.
Also, if someone like a famous actor specifically asked a business not to publicise that they had frequented it, then if the business went back on that, I think they would get less famous people visiting in the future.
The interest in the transaction (and information about related holdings) is to me reasonable and relevant given this individual is believed by some to have a massive quantity of coins from very early mining.
http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/satoshi-s-fortune-a-...
I thought Hacker News was a club of quality-valuing people that saw the world from a hacker's perspective and questioned the status quo. My view is shifting with every comment posted here.
These people are trying to doxx a man using the excuse that he is a public figure, as if that strips him of his humanity. It's a positively shameful behavior, and should not be encouraged or allowed to continue.
For instance, if I take a piece of paper and some paint, and use them to make a painting that I hang on my wall, and this painting would sell for $100k if I elected to sell it, I do not have to report $100k of income. I only have taxable income when I actually sell the painting.
He might have $400m worth of bitcoins, but can he actually sell them and get $400m for them? It would be tricky.
When he mined them and they were worthless? When he sells them?
I think he either owes couple of cents or nothing.
In this case, his basis is $0 (his cost to acquire the asset). Were he to sell all of them, his profit is essentially 100%; however, I'm not entirely sure how bitcoin gains are codified. If they're regular capital gains, then it's done around that cost basis ($0 in this case), but if they aren't, then I don't know.
IMO, the criticisms are unfounded and just another example of the HN's community recent penchant to hate on anything and everything.
Blockexplorer: https://blockexplorer.com/address/1KfQKmME7bQm5AesPiizWk6h3J...
Source: http://o-crepes.com/
https://blockexplorer.com/address/1KLahQtqDNAXvrjNyfvgSBtAhw...
https://blockexplorer.com/address/1eHhgW6vquBYhwMPhQ668HPjxT...
This is the famous "424242" transaction that Mark Kerpeles signed to prove that he was in control of enough BitCoins to keep Gox solvent in 2011. Perhaps the first 'received transaction' wasn't actually Satoshi's.
Leave the man be.
It isn't true for government surveillance of our mail and it isn't true with Bitcoin.
You guys are literally trying to doxx this man.
The first commit of bitcoin-wallet (most popular Android wallet presently) was March 8, 2011: https://github.com/schildbach/bitcoin-wallet
Here's another from that time: https://github.com/barmstrong/bitcoin-android
It also matters how you showed the picture. Depending on how you did it can influence people to remember incorrectly.
From 1987:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3627925
Ten European subjects made significantly more errors in recognising Asian faces than European faces
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/16/6/440.short
Koreans who grew up in Europe recognize Asian faces much worse than Koreans who grew up in Korea, and Koreans who grew up in Korea make mistakes in recognizing European faces.
It's called the "Cross-race effect": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect
OP seems to be American so I'd wager that his/her wife is, too.
source: https://twitter.com/Ocrepes/status/83671795693133824
I wonder if he still believes that today.
>Says it's anonymous.
Good luck with that.
> comments on it anyway.
good luck indeed.
Though it might just be a lesson in how "anonymous" bitcoin transactions actually are.
I wonder if his motivation was testing, or to generate some seed business for it?
Do you think Satoshi travelled all the way from his home in California to your creperie in Brooklyn just to try out BitCoin in real life?
