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Waht would you say to satoshi nakamoto ??

For me i'd say thank you for your currency i'm happy to working and playing with it

Wasn't there a thread about this already?

OP, search the forums and you will definitely have your answers.

Other than Namecoin, altcoins weren't really a thing back when Satoshi was still around so I'd probably ask him what he thinks about platforms like Ethereum and NXT as well as his views on proof of stake vs. proof of work and the pros and cons of each.

The above is assuming of course, that the communication goes both ways. Otherwise, I'd probably just say thanks like the OP.


You might be thinking of this thread which was posted a while back:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=654600

I admit they're very similar, but OP here is asking what would you say vs. the other thread which asks what question would you ask. :D

if Satoshi were a dog....

Well, obviously the first question would be: Who are you really?

hows the NSA payroll?  ;D

Where the heck have you been all this time? There is so many people looking for you, you should apologize to them! :D

I'd congratulate him for being a modern day genius.
I'd ask him loads of questions probably boring the crap out of him in the process.
I'd ask him if he still has the private keys to his early wallets with a shit load of coin in & finally I'd ask very nicely if he'd give me a few thousand coins seeing as though he already hodl's a bottomless pit's worth he wouldn't miss a few thousand  ;D ;D

Obviously I would ask for a ride on his spaceship.

if i find satoshi i will bring a gun with myself and hold him at gunpoint for his privatekeys :D
but after thanking him for creating bitcoin though...

I'd invite him for a free lunch ;)

Certain professionals always get asked the same questions by everyone they meet. For example most double base players always get asked if they wish they play the violin when they are carrying theirs double bases around.

If we knew who he was every single person Satoshi met from then on would ask him if he still has his private keys and if he will give them a few thousand coins.

I'd definitely ask him why did he choose the proof of work method in the long run. As the difficulty increases, the amount of hashing power and computing power also increases, same as the power needed to provide this computers the energy that they need to solve complex mathematical equations. As the demand for power increases, the amount of heat generated also increases, and this heat is basically useless to mankind, only adding a few degrees on our planet's average temperature. There are lot of methods out there for generating bitcoins such as proof of stake and whatnot, but why the power-hungry proof of work method? Proof of stake could be worrying because if a single entity holds a great percentage of the total available supply, he could easily control the movements on the market. That is one reason I know of. But what is the deeper reason why proof of work method is chosen over the other methods?

just ask for a bitcoin fat tip. remember too much power can corrupt him just spread the love.

Hal Finney invented Proof of Work for an anti spam measure in an email application. When Satoshi invented Bitcoin it was the only proof of anything concept available. Proof of Stake was invented years after Bitcoin was. Perhaps Satoshi might have chosen a different type of proof concept if more had been available when he was devising Bitcoin.

lol - Trust me.  As someone involved in an altcoin, Satoshi did Bitcoin a big favor by disappearing.   ;D

i would ask what happened to 1-2M coins, did he sold something at the 1200 peak, did he lost his keys, why he mined so many coins if it was only for testing?

He mined huge numbers of coins because nobody else was prepared to waste time and money keeping the network running by mining them. For over a year nobody cared about Bitcoin and nobody was willing to wreck their computer by running it at 100% CPU indefinitely except Satoshi. Hal Finney kept his computer mining for a long time, but eventually stopped because he was worried about the damage mining was doing to it.

Don't know whether to say thank you or not to Satoshi, but one thing I would like to say is,
"Man! Hat's off to you who brought a revolution in the world of Anonymity".

I'd say:

Did you destroy your private keys? If not, are you planning on spending your coins?
I'd really like to know, although I think it is really clear that he isn't going to spend them.

I would say, "is it comfortable living in that crawlspace inside Gavin's home?"

me too, i am glad that this currency called bitcoin is invented, i hope many currencies would be made like this one

He create a great thing which make people finally control their own worth.
That is great.

Well, I would definitely like to know where he keeps his wallet and what the password for the encryption is.  ;D

How many coins in total does Satoshi have?
Some say he holds more than 10% of total Bitcoins (not in circulation, but in number).
Did he ever dump?

they said he hold 1-2M at best, he has the greatest amount of coin, after him there was finney

no one know if he ever dump, but i suspect that maybe during the 1200 peak he dumped some, just for test how strong was the adoption

Actually no one knows except for he himself, However there is an estimate that he currently has around a  Million of the coins which haven't moved since the start. But no one knows his other addresses on which he might easily have a much higher amount in holding.

Wow, people like you make me want to apply for my concealed carry permit. I'm naïve in the sense that thoughts like this don't generally even enter my psyche. But I have to remind myself that there are plenty of people where it does.  ???

Many have already been made. They're called altcoins. ;)


From January 2009 to December 2009, the total network hashrate remained fairly constant at around 0.005 GH/s:

http://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=all

The difficulty also stayed at the minimum value of 1 throughout most of the year. Because there were very few others mining back then, it's usually assumed that most of this was due to Satoshi mining:

http://blockchain.info/charts/difficulty?timespan=all

Also, most of the earliest miners consolidated their coins into a few large addresses. Satoshi, on the other hand, left his addresses containing newly generated 50 BTC inputs untouched in their original addresses (excluding a very early one-off transaction made to Hal Finney).

Finally, Satoshi's addresses also exhibit unique patterns and characteristics which distinguish them from other addresses:


Link: http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-fortune-of-satoshi-nakamoto/


Link: http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/new-mystery-about-satoshi/


It is possible that Satoshi could have continued mining well past 2009/2010 while remaining undetected by changing his habits to match those of other miners. Even so, the number of miners exploded in 2010 and 2011 (e.g. hashrate on July 2010 was 40 times higher than 2009 and hashrate on July 2011 was 2.5 million times higher - although part of this increase was due to the transition towards GPU mining). Assuming that Satoshi continued mining with the same setup he started off with, his hashrate would have represented a much smaller proportion of the total network hashrate in 2010 and even more so in 2011 so he would have mined a fairly low number of coins (in relative terms) vs. 2009 when he basically had an entire year completely to himself.

I made an earlier thread about this subject here (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1028203). Anyway, I doubt we'll ever know either way.

The proof of work you are referring to was called hashcash by Adam Back, not satoshi,

I would say Thank you for paying my vacation this year. You deserve a bear and I would ask him:

Mr Satoshi Nakamoto, did you ever think Bitcoin would become this huge? Even with a low price, we can't deny it, this is huge..

Why he would do that at that time. Why not one year before or one year latter or why not tomorrow?  You think he would just know because he invented it that there will be a peak at end of 2013 and sold some at that time. You want to say you believe he is a actually a time traveler and he knew the future?

What would I say to him?

Well, if one of the IMO less plausible theories of his identity is true, I'd say,

"Should have worn a seatbelt!"



(too soon?)

I'm not Nash! :P

I thought your bitcointalk account was disabled. :P

If Satoshi was a person, I'd ask him what he did with his coins now, and how did he make bitcoins in the first place? I'd probably ask him to be my mentor and ask him how to make more btc.  :D

Can you believe Hal Finney is dead? What about that whole freezing his body stuff, pretty crazy eh?

Do you know who sent that message "I am not Dorian"? Was it you?

Why haven't you been slowly exchanging your Bitcoins? You lost your hard drive without a backup, didn't you?

As far as I know every single address of satoshi is somehow known, and i've heard he never moved his coins.
Does anyone know satoshi's addresses?
Of course he could always have more that no one knows about, but I think it should be pretty easy to stop because in the begining the volume of transactions was small.

Satoshi is dangerous for Bitcoin: http://www.coindesk.com/dangerous-satoshi-nakamoto/

Which wallets belong to Satoshi: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/20565/which-wallets-belong-to-satoshi-nakamoto

I would ask why he didnt spend his bitcoins yet