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Is this really Bitcoin's regal genius pappy?? He doesn't even look very Asian to me? Thoughts?

http://www.ibtimes.com/craig-wright-reportedly-set-prove-he-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-2348687

https://spendabit.co/go?q=satoshi
https://spendabit.co/go?q=real
https://spendabit.co/go?q=fake

Word on the street is no one in the bitcoin community who is actually respectable gives a shit.
This happens every 3 months or so and now we are waiting for this one's "big reveal".

Someone should tweet the writer of this article and thank him for another copy & paste story.

Just sign his PGP key and we will know...

All signs point to the story as a fabrication intended to defraud the Australian tax authorities. Wright appears to be a fraud and developers and technical experts in the know aren't paying the story any mind.

Its probably bullshit. Hes not Satoshi no matter how much he wants to be.

Another man claiming to be Satoshi.Aren't we got used to it?What kept mr wright from disclosing his identity all these years and why suddenly he decided to come public?
I think it would be in interest of Bitcoin if mr Satoshi never come in public

even if it was satoshi it wud change nothing.,

The guy couldn't even hold back his liar smile or keep up with Nick Szabo in that famous video. Seems legit.

This is fake.. 8) 8)

whoever claiming as satoshi nakamoto,he probably just give a shit,its almost impossible,so far i just believe that satoshi is people from japan with eyeglases and have white hair,just like when we browsing satoshi nakamoto.

Did anyone catch the reference and link here to BitcoinTalk in the 8th paragraph of this International Business Times article???

We are already had the news on this australian man being satoshi a couple of months ago, and Greg Maxwell quickly proved that this was bullshit in reddit with some proof, so I wonder what he has to say now about it again. I think this guy is just desperate for attention. If he was satoshi he just had to move the coins and that's all.

i don't trust this person and he obviously not Satoshi Nakamoto and i didn't see any valid proof that he the real Satoshi Nakamoto and also i guess Satoshi Nakamoto doesn't exist in this world because nobody can't prove that Satoshi Nakamoto really exist

I agree with you. He doesn't look the part to me, at least in the article photo. I'd like to see the original disproof by Maxwell, do you have a link to it?

Actually its better if we dont know who Satoshi Nakamoto really is, the continuous media attention to the possible next big reveal over the comming years is like free Bitcoin advertisement, and it makes people never heard about Bitcoin before curious what really Bitcoin is.

Shhh, dont say this out loud, you will spoil the fun.

If a journalist reads your post, then its game over, the plan is exposed.

every now and then there is a new guy coming out and claims to be satoshi and sometimes the guy doesn't even know and the media (those crappy bitcoin news sites) just start a new trend about new satoshi identity.

if satoshi ever comes out he will start it with a signed message from his PGP keys.

Yes, the free publicity is another brilliant angle by Satoshi! Go Bitcoin!

Well I've read most of Satoshi's posts on the forum here and while I don't know the guy in the photo, somehow he doesn't look like he might be the one who wrote those comments. Ok I admit it could be because of the expression on his face in that picture  ::)  
But I like what Andresen said in the article. I believe the ones who are mostly like to recognize him are those who communicated with him and understood and appreciated his work for its actual worth. I think that if I'd had in depth discussions with someone whose work I was truly thrilled about, I would be able to recognize their style and personality through their words.

And no one should forget that: EVEN if he moved the original coins that are supposedly satoshi's coins, it wouldn't prove anything this point, because we can't know if satoshi had the coins stolen and then ended up on this guys hand's due having connections inside the inner circle of the original developer team and so on. There's just nothing this Craig Wright dude can do to convince anyone that he is Satoshi, and Satoshi would never be stupid enough to want to become a public figure, which pretty much discredits anything this hoaxer has to say.

Do you know of a link to any of Satoshi's posts here? I'd like to study them and possibly write an article. Thank you.

I would say that moving coins known to belong to satoshi and/or signing a message from one or more address that is known to belong to satoshi would reasonably prove that he is satoshi, as would signing a message from satoshi's GPG key (DE4E FCA3 E1AB 9E41 CE96  CECB 18C0 9E86 5EC9 48A1 and not any one other then this one).

I don't think that theft was all that much of a problem as of the time that satoshi left, and I think he would have said something if he coins were stolen up to shortly after he left.

Just select the 'Members' option above then click on 'search for members' and type in 'satoshi', he'll be at the top of the page with his position set as 'Founder'. You can then just go into his profile and click on 'Show the last posts of this person' and there you go, you'll have access to every single post he's made here. You can learn a lot about his personality through his posts  ;)
Good luck with the article!

Great, I'll search for "satoshi" as you suggested, maybe there are some clues waiting to be discovered... thanks ObscureBean!  :)

Bullshit.

He's in it for publicity. If he actually wanted to prove he was satoshi, he will have to sign an address used by the Satoshi account on this forum.

am sure Satoshi Nakamoto has read this post under a different alias

is it possible one of our moderators  personally know him

How do you know if Satoshi Nakamoto is an Asian, by his name? It's just a name dude, I can even use an African name while I'm an Asian.
He is probably Satoshi Nakamoto, no one knows.

Thats not true, craig wright is not satoshi nakamoto, satoshi nakamoto is surely a group, and satoshi never left the forum maybe hes here reading our posts using different account.

Did he done anything, April 8 has passed, when will he "prove" that he is satoshi?

No Matter who is Satoshi, the thing is that he invented the biggest digitial currecnt=y, the BITCOINS and he will be known for this.

However the guy shown above doesn't seems to be the original one.

AFAIK, no one knows Satoshi Nakamoto IP address. Not even the admin nor moderators. Even if admins check the database and found IP that was used by Satoshi a few years ago, it's already obsolete. Well, even if there is IP address of Satoshi in the database, he is not a dumb person to use his real IP to browse this forum, though.

Next months it will be another guy, and then another one, and another one.
Even if the real Nakamoto comes in the public place to say "I am Nakamoto" no one is going to believe him.

I think its basically a fact that Satoshi Nakamoto is not asian, it is a Pseudonym.   

we will most likely never know who the real satoshi nakamoto is unless he is introducing himself to the outside world with signed messages of (supposedly) his wallets. untill then, i don't believe any one that is saying he or she is satoshi. it's that simple.

Identity of satoshi nakamoto is trully mistery in bitcoin world. And i think hes not showing his true identity to make her/himself to be safety just like his coin is anonimous also. Many hoax release about satoshi nakamotos info. And im very sure many of us waiting and really courious what is the identity and story of satoshi nakamoto the coin we benifited so much.

As I said in another thread, if Satoshi Nakamoto (he/she/they) came forward to the world there would be an excuse for people here to say it's not 'him'. I think that's why Satoshi will stay gone. Because of all the hostility when there should be peace between members of the bitcoin community.

This is the most likely scenario. Wright is publicity hungry individual who just want to promote himself by promising - that he will reveal himself and confirm that he is Satoshi.
But so far all we have is bunch of old blog posts (which could be added later and can't be really check) random facts which not exactly stick together all that much and his word.

People are tired of this farce so: Reveal yourself or stop confusing people, Wright.

We do not need a central figure head to represent us. We {the users of Bitcoin} is Satoshi Nakamoto.  ;) .... Wright would be the stupidest person in the world, to announce

that he is Satoshi Nakamoto. He will spend most of his remaining days in courts and he will have to dodge the criminals who would be out to get his 1 000 000 bitcoins. No

amount of evidence will be enough to convince people, that he is Satoshi Nakamoto. {Well a signed PGP message will help, but people will even dismiss that as evidence.}  ::)

He could have had everything stolen, including PGP keys and all. I personally don't trust anything at this point. Satoshi would never come out and reveal that he is satoshi because he is too smart and knows that he gains nothing from doing so, so whoever comes out claiming it's satoshi it's an instant fake for me, no matter what proof he has to provide.

Well, that is problematic. Satoshi is already well established if we are talking about money. His fortune is plenteous (of course, we are assuming that he still has access to all his coins).
But there is much more beside being rich to gain. After reaveling himself he can gain: fame and recognition, place in history books under his real name, followers and prizes.
These things can be rather appealing.

PGP key could be stolen and not used so far because no easy way to monetarize it, but if his early coins are stolen and not moved immediately then it makes no sence. But now if someone sign message with private key from the Satoshi early coins and do not move these coins then it is Satoshi - because if it is not, Satoshi can move the coins immediately after noticing someone else signed message with his compromised private keys.

Sure satoshi could have had all his keys stolen, however the same is true for anyone else whose identity you are verifying with a signed message. If that was the case then the "real" satoshi would still be able to revoke his GPG key, and could produce a signed message saying that the person who is claiming to be him is not really him.

The value of satoshi's bitcoin is worth a lot, close to a half billion dollars (by some estimates) and I think it is reasonable to believe that someone whose keys are worth that much would take sufficient precautions to prevent such keys from being stolen.

Another point is the fact that satoshi's keys are probably worth more to someone if they were to simply spend his bitcoin verses trying to impersonate him. It is estimated that satoshi mined roughly a million bitcoin, however all of the bitcoin that he mined is not publicly known (all of his addresses are not known), so he could spend some of these coins and no one would probably even realize that they are receiving satoshi's (stolen) coins.

I highly doubt it is this guy. He has too many plaques on his wall. As far as we know satoshi nakamoto is a humble guy not a man like this that looks to be after power meaning more money & greed.

No way  ::)

If Satoshi don't wanna show us his face he will not. Its very good to be anonymus when you are creator of the biggest crypto currency in the world.

there is no one in bitcoin community who know about satoshi nakamoto his identity is secret and maybe it will stay like that, there is always someone who show up and predict he is satoshi but no one is the real.

you're wrong. everyone gives a shit who satoshi is and what he plans on doing with his coins.

Oh really, I didn't know that. Thanks for chiming in with your valuable comment.
Fyi, I am Satoshi Nakamoto. So lets write a story about me and I'll tell you what I'm going to do with my coins.

I would also like to thank you for giving a shit about me.
Also thanks for bumping a worthless two month old thread. Your so sweet.

I think only god knows. But in my observation, satoshi is not an individual I would go to the left satoshi is a group. And its name is being seen by the Japanese but it's not necessarily. Thank you

That guy are fakes, The real satoshi nakamoto hides his profile because of his security reasons, He migh be rob or even he might be assasinated by the bank owners

True, if he was the one who created the Bitcoin then automatically he could prove by changing the algorithm Bitcoin, even he does not show something that shows that he is the original author and inventor of the Bitcoin. This is something that is used to raise the popularity and the way something is very easily done by any person

waaaa waaa waaa.. That's the sound of you crying for no reason. Dont get all buthurt. People care, and I can bump any thread i want. So now the questions remains, are you the real Satoshi

I guess it was not him. Satoshi Nakamoto is a person who is a genius, he created bitcoin and then disappeared. I think he will never appear again at this time, unless there is an important thing happened.

I don't think it's real picture of Satoshi. besides, satoshi is not an Asian people said. and why should he show his face while he designed bitcoin to be anymous? probably he such shy man, so he made something is similar to him imo.

Not this guy again.

No, we already talked about this, this is wrapped, sealed and done. Craig Wright had his opportunity to prove to the world that he was in control of satoshi's keys, and that would still not prove that he is satoshi anyway.

There's no point in trying to prove it, it's impossible to prove. Time to forget about this and put time into more productive things, such as buying bitcoin.

When will it be Dorian's turn to be satoshi again?
 ;D

Craig Wright just proved to be another conman to pretend to be the creator of the world's innovative cryptocurrency, yet his claims failed when not providing proof to the public of signing the first Bitcoin blocks. This was just some drama in order to gain attention from the public and earn fame and fortune.

I think that Satoshi Nakamoto may never be found. He may be already dead and we may not know it. Just my opinion.  ::)

Why I don't get is why he even tried, he knew he would be busted. Craig must have some screws loose.