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Title: How you you want someone to prove they are Satoshi? Post by: Amitabh S on March 17, 2013, 11:11:54 AM If someone claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, what would constitute as proof?
-- post a message from Satoshi's account in this forum? -- sign a message from the genesis block public key? -- move around funds from several initial unspent outputs? Title: Re: How you you want someone to prove they are Satoshi? Post by: maxmint on March 17, 2013, 11:19:13 AM I guess spending some coins from the first block (http://blockchain.info/block-index/1/)should be enough proof.
Title: Re: How you you want someone to prove they are Satoshi? Post by: Gabi on March 17, 2013, 11:36:19 AM I guess spending some coins from the first block (http://blockchain.info/block-index/1/)should be enough proof. There is a nice signing function in the client, no need to spend :)Title: Re: How you you want someone to prove they are Satoshi? Post by: dust on March 17, 2013, 11:39:26 AM I guess spending some coins from the first block (http://blockchain.info/block-index/1/)should be enough proof. These coins cannot be spent. (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block)Quote from: Bitcoin Wiki The first 50BTC block reward went to address 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa, though this reward can't be spent due to a quirk in the way that the genesis block is expressed in the code (this may have been intentional). Title: Re: How you you want someone to prove they are Satoshi? Post by: poly on March 17, 2013, 11:46:38 AM Most likely satoshi's forum account has being disabled to prevent someone logging in and causing panic by saying something ridiculous and/or stupid.
Title: Re: How you you want someone to prove they are Satoshi? Post by: Nicolai on March 17, 2013, 12:09:17 PM Most likely he will just sign a message (we already know his public key: https://bitcointalk.org/Satoshi_Nakamoto.asc )
Title: Re: How you you want someone to prove they are Satoshi? Post by: MysteryMiner on March 18, 2013, 03:44:38 AM Posting from Satoshi's forum account signed message with Satoshi's PGP key is best way to do it.
Title: Re: How you you want someone to prove they are Satoshi? Post by: repentance on March 18, 2013, 04:08:57 AM Most likely satoshi's forum account has being disabled to prevent someone logging in and causing panic by saying something ridiculous and/or stupid. Wasn't Satoshi's account disabled after the CosbyCoin incident? |