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Title: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 27, 2013, 06:48:24 PM Crypt::PGP5 - An Object Oriented Interface to PGP5. (http://search.cpan.org/~agul/Crypt-PGP5-1.38/PGP5.pm)
Quote AUTHOR Crypt::PGP5 is Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Ashish Gulhati <hash@netropolis.org>. All Rights Reserved. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to Barkha for inspiration and lots of laughs; to Rex Rogers at Laissez Faire City for putting together a great environment to hack on freedom technologies; and of-course, to Phil Zimmerman, Larry Wall, Richard Stallman, and Linus Torvalds. Phil Zimmerman, Larry Wall, Richard Stallman, and Linus Torvalds = et al. (?) Rex Rogers (among other nyms) = James Ray Houston, Sonny Vleisides' (BFL) dad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashish_Gulhati http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Ashish-Gulhati.jpg/100px-Ashish-Gulhati.jpg Quote In 1999, he was involved with Laissez Faire City, where he developed Laissez Faire City's OpenPGP compatible messaging engine, and also deployed secure wireless links for Laissez Faire City's consultate in Costa Rica. Since 2000, he has been actively involved in various security and privacy related efforts http://www.hashcash.org/source/CHANGELOG Quote update everything to point at http://www.hashcash.org now we have the domain courtesy of it's previous owner Ashish Gulhati <agul@cpan.org> (at no charge -- he declined my offer to pay for it and instead gave it to me!) Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure Adam Back e-mail: adam@cypherspace.org 1st August 2002 Abstract Hashcash was originally proposed as a mechanism to throttle systematic abuse of un-metered internet resources such as email, and anonymous remailers in May 1997. Five years on, this paper captures in one place the various applications, improvements suggested and related subsequent publications, and describes initial experience from experiments using hashcash. The hashcash CPU cost-function computes a token which can be used as a proof-of-work. Interactive and noninteractive variants of cost-functions can be constructed which can be used in situations where the server can issue a challenge (connection oriented interactive protocol), and where it can not (where the communication is store–and– forward, or packet oriented) respectively. (http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf) Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper (http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09959.html) Quote I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully Satoshi Nakamoto Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:16:33 -0700[/url]peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party. The paper is available at: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf The main properties: Double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer network. No mint or other trusted parties. Participants can be anonymous. New coins are made from Hashcash style proof-of-work. The proof-of-work for new coin generation also powers the network to prevent double-spending. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) Quote References [1] W. Dai, "b-money," http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt, 1998. [2] H. Massias, X.S. Avila, and J.-J. Quisquater, "Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal trust requirements," In 20th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, May 1999. [3] S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "How to time-stamp a digital document," In Journal of Cryptology, vol 3, no 2, pages 99-111, 1991. [4] D. Bayer, S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Improving the efficiency and reliability of digital time-stamping," In Sequences II: Methods in Communication, Security and Computer Science, pages 329-334, 1993. [5] S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Secure names for bit-strings," In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pages 28-35, April 1997. [6] A. Back, "Hashcash - a denial of service counter-measure," http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf, 2002. [7] R.C. Merkle, "Protocols for public key cryptosystems," In Proc. 1980 Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, pages 122-133, April 1980. [8] W. Feller, "An introduction to probability theory and its applications," 1957. http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-200/2858-1/%7B0CFE248A-FD79-4397-99A3-44B2D0686BF4%7DImg200.jpg http://search.overdrive.com/ti/0cfe248a-fd79-4397-99a3-44b2d0686bf4-410-1-1-1-1/beautiful-code-andy-oram-greg-wilson-ebook Quote This book contains 33 chapters contributed by Brian Kernighan, Karl Fogel, Jon Bentley, Tim Bray, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Michael Feathers, Alberto Savoia, Charles Petzold, Douglas Crockford, Henry S. Warren, Jr., Ashish Gulhati, Lincoln Stein, Jim Kent, Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek, Adam Kolawa, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Diomidis Spinellis, Andrew Kuchling, Travis E. Oliphant, Ronald Mak, Rogerio Atem de Carvalho and Rafael Monnerat, Bryan Cantrill, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Simon Peyton Jones, Kent Dybvig, William Otte and Douglas C. Schmidt, Andrew Patzer, Andreas Zeller, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Arun Mehta, TV Raman, Laura Wingerd and Christopher Seiwald, and Brian Hayes. Quote Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell their story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty International. http://thefree.in/ Quote FREE was created in July 1994 by Ashish Gulhati, Dr. Arun Mehta and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh as an online forum dedicated to protecting and enhancing fundamental human rights in the electronic domain, and representing the interests of the electronic community in India. http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/ <follow the link to read the following in its original format> http://web.archive.org/web/19970418092412im_/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/graphics/hash Quote My company, Netropolis Technologies, provides consultancy, training and software for Internetworking applications. Netropolis Netropolis is an Extensible, Transparent, Reliable, Open, and Powerful On Line Interaction System. Well, it may not be all of that yet, but it sure makes for an impressive acronym. More details once I have a beta version ready. Greet Network At Greet Network, arguably the niftiest greeting card site on the Web, you can create a web page with custom artwork to convey your good wishes on a variety of special occasions. For only $4.95, you get a URL for your greeting that lasts for a month, and is completely mainainable through a web interface. I'm adding artwork and more nifty features to this site on a continuous basis. Web Architecture I think of website development as a form of architecture - the organization of virtual spaces, the functionality of the plan, the navigation paths, and the consistency of static and dynamic design are all-important to me. I've honed my skills at web architecture as the co-ordinator of Webware services at Silver Leaf Software, as the online editor of Connect Magazine, and through my own ventures. Technical Journalism I used to write a monthly column called Cyberpunk for India's largest selling and fastest growing computer magazine - PC Quest. Here are electronic versions of some of my articles for PC Quest and other Indian computer magazines. Looking For Work I will undertake interesting and/or specialized HTML and Perl hacking on a freelance basis in order to make some money in a hard currency ;-) I'm also looking for a job in Las Vegas. Employer should be willing and able to arrange an immigration visa. In exchange, I'll work cheap. Here's my resumé (http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/). I'm 22 years old, 5'10" tall, have long curly hair, dark eyes, pointed ears and an IQ of 180, according to those bright folks at Mensa. I'm always juggling some mad amount of activities and in the middle of reading an even madder number of books. I know what it sounds like, but it isn't ADD - thank God for small mercies. Education Having found much of my own formal education a tedious and boring process, bordering on the intolerable, I'm very interested in innovative educational techniques. Here you'll find some essays on education that I've written and some pointers to interesting education related sites. India Well, it's my country. Here's my constantly evolving web-project to present a rather different perspective on "the gritty, sexy, real India", to borrow a wonderful phrase from Karl Taro Greenfeld. PGP Public Key Mail to me in India is easily and routinely read by sysadmins at the government-owned service provider. If you can, use PGP when mailing me. PERL, I like to insist, stands for Perl-Emacs-Rand-Linux, the four things I'm most passionate about. So here are my pages on these modern-day wonders. (Most pages are still under construction. Should be up 'soonish' ;-). Perl Larry Wall's interpreted systems language, Perl, features a potent mix of the best 'magic beads' from languages of the past, a very tight economy of expression, zero bureaucratic baggage, and more than one way to do anything. It's now object oriented, extensible, embeddable, and better than ever. Emacs Richard Stallman's full-screen, extensible, customizable, self-documenting editor with a built-in lisp system. 'Nuff said. This beast is the greatest boon to efficiency since the roller ball bearing, and it runs on practically any platform. Rand IMHO, Ayn Rand was this century's most profound thinker and the greatest literary artist of all time. Her portrayal of man as an independent, efficacious, rational being is worth experiencing, no matter which side you take in the violent controversy that surrounds her and her works. Linux The Operating System "of the people, for the people, by the people", Linux is a veritable revolution in free software. Having used and reviewed practically every desktop OS in common use, I found that Linux is simply the coolest way to run your computer. It's my OS of choice and I'm an outspoken Linux advocate in India. http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/ Quote Name: Ashish Gulhati DoB: 16 October 1973 Address: 140 Sunder Nagar, New Delhi-3, India Phone: +91 11 4615433 Fax: +91 11 4601978 E-Mail: hash@netropolis.or <Please, Jehovah, don't tell me it's the same day BFL was planning to ship!> Satoshi Nakamoto will be 40 years old this year. How's on the birthday party committee? Also from his resume: Quote With this foray into electronic commerce, I developed a sense of the economics of the Internet, and measured the revenue-generation potential of the Web as marketplace. Encouraged by my initial discoveries, I am going to focus most of my energies on this activity for the foreseeable future. Quote Since September 1997, I have been developing and maintaining the website of The American Reporter, mostly gratis, motivated by the unique nature of the publication and its role in the defeat of the Communications Decency Act. Surely does explain why Satoshi's fond of the word Karma. I did my part. Feel free to now punch holes in my theory or verify what I've presented. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 27, 2013, 07:17:51 PM And yes, a person with an IQ of 180 would hide in plain sight: au.linkedin.com/in/agulhati
http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/media/p/3/000/255/24a/0ee7370.jpg Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Bitinvestor on May 27, 2013, 07:52:27 PM Good work Phinn, he's the most likely candidate that I've seen yet. Anybody who's smart enough to come up with proof-of-work can also come up with Bitcoin.
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 27, 2013, 07:53:32 PM http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/
Quote Languages mastered include C, C++, 80x86 Assembly, 680x0 Assembly, Lisp, Pascal, FORTRAN, BASIC, Smalltalk, Scheme, Forth, Mops, and Perl. Operating Systems explored at a system level include DOS, Microsoft Windows, Minix, Coherent, Unix System V, OS/2, and Mac OS. 680x0 cross compiler for 80x86 machines. Written in 80x86 assembly. Device driver for LIM EMS PC card. Written in 80x86 assembly. System software for standalone 68020 computer system, with serial and parallel communications interfaces, display driver, and a system debugger. Written in 680x0 assembly. Shared memory IPC API for 680x0 PC daughterboard. Library Information System with extensive cataloguing, search, and accounting features. Written in Pascal. Collaborative workspace wordprocessor with shared cursors and views for interactive collaboration, as well as a range of annotation features for non-interactive collaboration, written in C++. Quote Formal Education Modern School, New Delhi, India Graduated in June 1991. Final grade: A. SAT Scores: Verbal 700, Math 780 Willamette University, Salem, OR, USA Philosophy major. First semester GPA - 3.2/4.0. Senator in the student senate for first semester. Dropped out after the first semester because I realized that all I was really doing at college was drinking beer. I didn't see why I should be paying $10,000 tuition fees just to drink beer all year. Spent the rest of the year in the university electronics lab before returning to India. au.linkedin.com/in/agulhati Quote Education Swinburne University of Technology MIT, IT 2009 – 2010 Delhi Vishwavidyalaya B.A., English Literature 1993 – 1996 Willamette University 1991 – 1992 See what happens when you hang around Sonny's dad too long? BTW, my SAT's score was 720/800, respectively, and I didn't even graduate at the top 10% of my HS class. After taking the test, I knew in my heart that I aced the math part. Afterwards, my dad and I left IU and went fishing in Brown County, Indiana. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: escrow.ms on May 27, 2013, 07:55:25 PM So Mr. ashish gulhati aka your satoshi nakamoto lives near me.. ;D
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: meowmeowbrowncow on May 27, 2013, 08:22:42 PM ... http://thefree.in/ Quote FREE was created in July 1994 by Ashish Gulhati, Dr. Arun Mehta and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh as an online forum dedicated to protecting and enhancing fundamental human rights in the electronic domain, and representing the interests of the electronic community in India. http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/ <follow the link to read the following in its original format> http://web.archive.org/web/19970418092412im_/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/graphics/hash Quote My company, Netropolis Technologies, provides consultancy, training and software for Internetworking applications. ... Rand IMHO, Ayn Rand was this century's most profound thinker and the greatest literary artist of all time. Her portrayal of man as an independent, efficacious, rational being is worth experiencing, no matter which side you take in the violent controversy that surrounds her and her works. No matter with an IQ of 180 - anyone who believe's the bolded comments above is either extremely narrow minded or certifiably crazy. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 27, 2013, 08:28:32 PM Scroll down to page 161 to read the entire chapter.
http://iearobotics.com/alberto/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=teaching:beatufulcode.pdf Quote I N MID-1999 I FLEW TO COSTA RICA TO WORK WITH LAISSEZ FAIRE CITY, a group that was working to create software systems to help usher in a new era of individual sovereignty.* Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 27, 2013, 08:33:03 PM ... http://thefree.in/ Quote FREE was created in July 1994 by Ashish Gulhati, Dr. Arun Mehta and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh as an online forum dedicated to protecting and enhancing fundamental human rights in the electronic domain, and representing the interests of the electronic community in India. http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/ <follow the link to read the following in its original format> http://web.archive.org/web/19970418092412im_/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/graphics/hash Quote My company, Netropolis Technologies, provides consultancy, training and software for Internetworking applications. ... Rand IMHO, Ayn Rand was this century's most profound thinker and the greatest literary artist of all time. Her portrayal of man as an independent, efficacious, rational being is worth experiencing, no matter which side you take in the violent controversy that surrounds her and her works. No matter with an IQ of 180 - anyone who believe's the bolded comments above is either extremely narrow minded or certifiably crazy. Honestly, I may even agree with you on that, but there's a many people who believe in God who are not crazy, as well as a many people who don't believe in God who are not crazy. We'll save this discussion for another time, though. Thanks for your insight. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: herzmeister on May 27, 2013, 10:06:21 PM Quote PERL, I like to insist, stands for Perl-Emacs-Rand-Linux, the four things I'm most passionate about. So here are my pages on these modern-day wonders. (Most pages are still under construction. Should be up 'soonish' ;-). Perl Larry Wall's interpreted systems language, Perl, features a potent mix of the best 'magic beads' from languages of the past, a very tight economy of expression, zero bureaucratic baggage, and more than one way to do anything. It's now object oriented, extensible, embeddable, and better than ever. Emacs Richard Stallman's full-screen, extensible, customizable, self-documenting editor with a built-in lisp system. 'Nuff said. This beast is the greatest boon to efficiency since the roller ball bearing, and it runs on practically any platform. [...] Linux The Operating System "of the people, for the people, by the people", Linux is a veritable revolution in free software. Having used and reviewed practically every desktop OS in common use, I found that Linux is simply the coolest way to run your computer. It's my OS of choice and I'm an outspoken Linux advocate in India.[/size] alas, the first versions of Bitcoin came developed with Microsoft(!) Visual Studio(!). A sacrilege for a Linux and Emacs warrior. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Bitinvestor on May 27, 2013, 10:22:04 PM alas, the first versions of Bitcoin came developed with Microsoft(!) Visual Studio(!). A sacrilege for a Linux and Emacs warrior. You don't think that a guy with an IQ of 180 can think that far ahead and plant some false leads? LOL. He's pretty much a perfect fit in every way. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 27, 2013, 10:34:37 PM http://iearobotics.com/alberto/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=teaching:beatufulcode.pdf
Quote Meeting the market’s demands is how application code becomes beautiful in a commercial sense,... To think that I've walked in the footsteps of Satoshi Nakamoto when I visited the Taj Mahal back in '90. I am so surrounded by white light now. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 27, 2013, 10:44:07 PM Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: herzmeister on May 27, 2013, 10:45:26 PM You don't think that a guy with an IQ of 180 can think that far ahead and plant some false leads? LOL. He's pretty much a perfect fit in every way. capable yes, but as said, it'd be a sacrilege... aren't you familiar with the FOSS crowd? ;) Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 27, 2013, 10:56:24 PM http://iearobotics.com/alberto/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=teaching:beatufulcode.pdf
Quote IN MID-1999 I FLEW TO COSTA RICA TO WORK WITH LAISSEZ FAIRE CITY, a group that was working to create software systems to help usher in a new era of individual sovereignty. The group at LFC was working primarily to develop a suite of software designed to protect and enhance individual rights in the digital age, including easy-to-use secure email, online dispute mediation services, an online stock exchange, and a private asset trading and banking system. My interest in many of the same technologies had been piqued long ago by the cypherpunks list and Bruce Schneier’s Applied Cryptography (Wiley), and I’d already been working on prototype implementations of some of these systems. The most fundamental of these were systems to deliver strong and usable communications privacy to just about everybody. When I stepped into LFC’s sprawling “interim consulate” outside San José, Costa Rica, they had a working prototype of a secure webmail system they called MailVault. It ran on Mac OS 9, used FileMaker as its database, and was written in Frontier. Not at all the mix of technologies you’d want to run a mission-critical communications service on, but that’s what the programmers had produced. It was no surprise the system crashed early and often, and was extremely fragile. It could hardly support two concurrent users. LFC was facing a credibility crisis with its investors, as their software releases had been delayed many times, and their first beta of MailVault, the flagship product, was no gem. So in the free time left over from my contract network and system administration work at LFC, I started writing a new secure mail system from scratch. This system is now named Cryptonite and has been in constant off-and-on development and testing since then, in between other projects. The first functioning prototype of Cryptonite was licensed to LFC as MailVault beta 2, and was open for testing in September 1999. It was the first OpenPGP-compatible webmail system available for public use and was almost immediately put to the test by LFC’s investors and beta testers. Since that time, Cryptonite has evolved in many ways through interaction with users, the open source community, and the market. While not an open source product itself, it has led to the development of numerous components I decided to release as open source along the way. Imagine Ashish walking into Sonny's BFL's facility now seeing the same clusterfuck. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 27, 2013, 11:22:24 PM To show that Ashish was well aware of James Orlin Grabbe's DMT (Digital Monetary Trust), I offer up the following: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/4857
Quote You're joking, right? No. I admit I haven't really been following details of the alleged evidence being produced in support of the idea that there were human hijackers on board the plane, but the bits I did hear about - the miraculous passport discovery, the arabic flight manuals, the convenient co-incidence of the hijackers' bags not being put on the flight - was all so obviously fabricated as to be insulting to the intelligence of those who are expected to buy it. I've heard of no really good evidence linking Osama to operation 911, but a small thing like the lack of evidence isn't stopping the US from bombing the fuck out of Afghanistan. Nor is there any evidence (I know of) that the alleged terrorists used encryption or steganography to aid in this operation, but that little detail isn't stopping US congresscritters from pushing through draconian electronic surveillance measures. It's just as obvious that none of this is related to actually combatting a terrorist threat, but is simply a way to distract attention from irritating and unpatriotic things like evidence and logic. Add to this the fact that the US recently conducted successful tests of unmanned trans-pacific flight using an aircraft with a wingspan about the same as that of a 737, and alternate theories don't seem so far fetched: http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.42/operation911.html The link above is dead, but... http://web.archive.org/web/20011201233333/http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.42/operation911.html About DMT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe#Digital_Monetary_Trust Quote In November 1999, a series of articles in the Laissez Faire City Times presented the Digital Monetary Trust project, which was a proposed financial trust providing private, anonymous accounts for individuals and entities within the DMT system, in order to securely store anonymous capital or to make anonymous monetary transactions. That is, the DMT will be in the business of providing privacy, and doing so in a cryptographical framework which provides a more solid basis for customer anonymity than the traditional ones of (allegedly) tight-lipped bankers or (often-leaky) banking secrecy laws. —Orlin Grabbe The ONLY person at Camp LFC at that time (mid to late '99) able to put together the DMT was Ashish. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: johnniewalker on May 27, 2013, 11:30:23 PM And yes, a person with an IQ of 180 would hide in plain sight: au.linkedin.com/in/agulhati lol@ Google Glasshttp://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/media/p/3/000/255/24a/0ee7370.jpg Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 27, 2013, 11:54:25 PM http://netrosnooper.software.informer.com/
Quote netrosnooper is developed by Netropolis. The most popular version of this product among our users is 2.0. The product will soon be reviewed by our informers. http://articles.software.informer.com/earn-a-million-with-bitcoin.html http://au.linkedin.com/in/agulhati Quote Ashish Gulhati Chief Developer at Neomailbox and Owner, Netropolis Technologies I'm afraid to connect any more dots, fearing I've discover that Josh Zerlan is Satoshi's PR guy. I've already found one post by Ashish that'll make Josh's vial rants acceptable at the Vatican, namely the cocksucker ones. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 28, 2013, 12:47:14 AM Guess who lives in Melbourne, AU, and follows Bitcoin tweeps?
https://twitter.com/an4rky/followers https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/57201582/hb.jpg Quote an4rkyabout 7 hours ago RT @maxkeiser: Bitcoin doesn't support crime, bitcoin was invented in reaction to massive crimes being committed by banks. Quote an4rkyabout 3 days ago RT @kyachtic: did you know ... the #libertarian party now accepts #bitcoin?! check it out http://t.co/sJ2Kx4BA0M Quote an4rkyabout 7 hours ago RT @maxkeiser: Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme. Bitcoin was created to escape the Ponzi scheme that is the US dollar and other fiat (read: Ponzi) currencies. Quote RT @perrymetzger: #bitcoin tulip market now at $16.92 or so. Go lemmings go! Reply Retweet Favorite More 11:20 AM - 4 Jun 11 Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 28, 2013, 01:13:39 AM Proof that Ashish worked on Hashcash: http://web.archive.org/web/20070111153902/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/blog.cgi/About/CV.html?seemore=y
Quote Code Meng Weng Wong's TextAmp Adam Back's HashCash Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Benson Samuel on May 28, 2013, 02:27:45 AM Very nice deductions Phinnaeus :)
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 28, 2013, 02:29:58 AM Very nice deductions Phinnaeus :) Stumbled upon it by accident between sessions at MFCs. ;D Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Viceroy on May 28, 2013, 02:31:23 AM Meng Weng Wong and I met Richard Stallman when I invited RMS to speak at our University. Professor Stallman turned 60 about a month ago.
Second page of an epic thread. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: pand70 on May 28, 2013, 03:18:16 AM I liked better the other Satoshi Nakamoto.You know the mathematician one from some days before.
He was THE S.N. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Benson Samuel on May 28, 2013, 03:18:59 AM http://bensonsamuel.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/is-ashish-gulhati-an-indian-satoshi-nakamoto/
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 28, 2013, 03:39:53 AM https://twitter.com/adam3us
Quote Adam Back @adam3us cryptographer, privacy enhancing tech, ecash, inventor of hashcash (bitcoin is hashcash extended with inflation control) Malta · cypherspace.org Satoshi's father was... (purposely didn't include the link, but...) Quote Founding Chair was a prominent development economist with the World Bank and Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He authored many books throughout his career... Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: ionstorm on May 28, 2013, 03:51:50 AM Ashish is not Satoshi, your very close with Adam Back, he probably knows Satoshi :-)
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 28, 2013, 05:05:59 AM Ashish is not Satoshi, your very close with Adam Back, he probably knows Satoshi :-) I've already shown that they've worked on HashCash together. Ashish would be more versed in the backend of DMT by Grabbe then Adam. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 28, 2013, 05:09:10 AM http://bensonsamuel.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/is-ashish-gulhati-an-indian-satoshi-nakamoto/ ROFLMMFAO!!! Quote Between sessions at MFC’s... I wouldn't change a word. I pitty the souls trying to figure out what MFC is/was years from now. Gammar alert! (minor--one too many spaces, I believe): Quote ...most elusive man/ collective on... Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Este Nuno on May 28, 2013, 11:11:51 AM A good effort I think. But I highly doubt this guy is Satoshi. He appears to have a totally different personality.
No way in hell would someone like this sit on all those mined coins and not convert a single satoshi into fiat. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Este Nuno on May 28, 2013, 11:14:50 AM Unless the guy totally matured at some point to become someone capable of doing what Satoshi did then maybe. But with a twitter handle like an4rky I highly doubt it.
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: oakpacific on May 28, 2013, 11:38:13 AM One counter-evidence: Satoshi seemed to be a Windows programmer, rather than a Linux programmer(which I don't think is an identity he needs to hide, after all there too many out there fit this stereotype)
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: jackjack on May 28, 2013, 12:53:22 PM One counter-evidence: Satoshi seemed to be a Windows programmer, rather than a Linux programmer(which I don't think is an identity he needs to hide, after all there too many out there fit this stereotype) Good pointTitle: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Viceroy on May 28, 2013, 01:21:44 PM One counter-evidence: Satoshi seemed to be a Windows programmer, rather than a Linux programmer(which I don't think is an identity he needs to hide, after all there too many out there fit this stereotype) I'm not sure what this means. A programmer is a programmer is a programmer. Programming is completely independent of the machine you code on. A skilled programmer, like Meng Weng Wong, can move between sun/sgi/windows/linux/osx/cpm/macOS without a hiccup because he is a programmer. We learned on SUN UNIX equipment, but could just as easily use Dr Badler's SGI array down the hall or the windows PC labs all over campus. Linux was invented in the 1990's it is far newer than microsoft's offerings. It is logical to suppose that anyone over 30 started on a Windows PC rather than a Linux PC and might be fluid in either environment. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 28, 2013, 06:11:39 PM A good effort I think. But I highly doubt this guy is Satoshi. He appears to have a totally different personality. No way in hell would someone like this sit on all those mined coins and not convert a single satoshi into fiat. With his skills, I'm pretty sure he wanted for nothing more than to get by semi-comfortably, coupled with his parents, namely dad, being an economist and diplomat, of sorts. His values were probably different than how western society folks were raised. Unless the guy totally matured at some point to become someone capable of doing what Satoshi did then maybe. But with a twitter handle like an4rky I highly doubt it. I'm pretty sure his an4rky moniker reflects his discontent toward the US for her false flag operations and manipulating the monetary system around the world. His mom is a dual citizen, working mainly in DC to lobby efforts for her noble cause back in India. Ashish moved to Oz shortly after Satoshi stopped posting publicly. Ashish has a beautiful command of the English language, capable of penning any continental style, I assume. Look at the list of programs he's a master of, and the list of projects he built from scratch, then tell me that there's no way he, acting alone, couldn't have developed Bitcoin--from scratch. But he didn't necessarily have to build it from scratch, for he had the HashCash code(s) at his disposal. Hell, he even came out and stated such in no uncertain terms that that was exactly what he was going to do. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Viceroy on May 28, 2013, 06:23:41 PM Have you asked him if he is satoshi yet? Or pointed him to this thread?
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 28, 2013, 06:28:47 PM Have you asked him if he is satoshi yet? Or pointed him to this thread? Dude, why pester Satoshi! I'm sure he's flattered that he's been outed, now we'll wait from him to come to us. <this post may be sarcastic> Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Viceroy on May 28, 2013, 06:31:59 PM /me bows to the great Satoshi Nakamoto while tilting his hat to Phinneaus
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 28, 2013, 06:33:29 PM Speaking of value system, a couple posts up, I present to you Ashish's mentor.
http://opensource.org/node/645 Quote One of the pillars of the Indian FOSS Community passed away this week. Known for his humor, his uncompromising honesty and his generosity in sharing FOSS knowledge with like-minded individuals. His sudden passing after a massive heart attack has shocked and saddened his friends across the FOSS World. Raj Mathur (aka OldMonk) was a founding member of the seminal Indian Linux Users Group, Delhi (aka ilug-d), and a very active member of the free and open source community. Well respected and extremely knowledgeable, he was often sought after for advice, which he readily dispersed. He was one of the earliest users and advocates of Linux and free software in India. Apart from contributions to the FOSS corpus with numerous packages released under the GNU GPL, he was also a regular member of the Free Software Award Committee, Director Emeritus of the Open Source Initiative and visiting professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi1 Here is a 2008 interview with Raj (http://archive09.linux.com/feature/154254) shot at his home (site of many ilug-d meetings over the years) by Robin "Roblimo" Miller for Linux.com. http://opensource.org/files/248222092_de1d40bb34_z.jpg Notice the terms "uncompromising honesty" and "generosity". I'm sure that if he stills access to the early minted bitcoins, they'll be used unselfishly. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Bitinvestor on May 28, 2013, 06:47:13 PM Quote update everything to point at http://www.hashcash.org now we have the domain courtesy of it's previous owner Ashish Gulhati <agul@cpan.org> (at no charge -- he declined my offer to pay for it and instead gave it to me!) This quote from the OP misled me yesterday into thinking that Ashish Gulhati invented HashCash, but on closer inspection today I realized that it was Adam Back. Ashish Gulhati has the sort of background (C++, Cryptography, HashCash, Ayn Rand, Laissez Faire City, etc.) that one needs to be able to see the potential and to develop HashCash into Bitcoin. I think he did it. The fact that Bitcoin is based on HashCash means that Adam Back is one of the spiritual fathers of Bitcoin, even if he isn't Satoshi Nakamoto. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Este Nuno on May 28, 2013, 07:47:54 PM A good effort I think. But I highly doubt this guy is Satoshi. He appears to have a totally different personality. No way in hell would someone like this sit on all those mined coins and not convert a single satoshi into fiat. With his skills, I'm pretty sure he wanted for nothing more than to get by semi-comfortably, coupled with his parents, namely dad, being an economist and diplomat, of sorts. His values were probably different than how western society folks were raised. Unless the guy totally matured at some point to become someone capable of doing what Satoshi did then maybe. But with a twitter handle like an4rky I highly doubt it. I'm pretty sure his an4rky moniker reflects his discontent toward the US for her false flag operations and manipulating the monetary system around the world. His mom is a dual citizen, working mainly in DC to lobby efforts for her noble cause back in India. Ashish moved to Oz shortly after Satoshi stopped posting publicly. Ashish has a beautiful command of the English language, capable of penning any continental style, I assume. Look at the list of programs he's a master of, and the list of projects he built from scratch, then tell me that there's no way he, acting alone, couldn't have developed Bitcoin--from scratch. But he didn't necessarily have to build it from scratch, for he had the HashCash code(s) at his disposal. Hell, he even came out and stated such in no uncertain terms that that was exactly what he was going to do. That's all very reasonable. But I personally get more of an "academic" type vibe from reading Satoshi. Everything you've put out here is pretty compelling though. The whole part about him being pro-FOSS and using Visual Studio to write his greatest creation seems pretty unlikely though. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Este Nuno on May 28, 2013, 07:48:53 PM He has what it takes to be Satoshi, but is he?
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: oakpacific on May 29, 2013, 12:33:15 AM One counter-evidence: Satoshi seemed to be a Windows programmer, rather than a Linux programmer(which I don't think is an identity he needs to hide, after all there too many out there fit this stereotype) I'm not sure what this means. A programmer is a programmer is a programmer. Programming is completely independent of the machine you code on. A skilled programmer, like Meng Weng Wong, can move between sun/sgi/windows/linux/osx/cpm/macOS without a hiccup because he is a programmer. We learned on SUN UNIX equipment, but could just as easily use Dr Badler's SGI array down the hall or the windows PC labs all over campus. Linux was invented in the 1990's it is far newer than microsoft's offerings. It is logical to suppose that anyone over 30 started on a Windows PC rather than a Linux PC and might be fluid in either environment. Ashish is obviously a thorough and thorough Linux/FOSS hacker with a strong ideological leaning if you check the materials provided by Bruno. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Viceroy on May 29, 2013, 12:54:25 AM You are contradicting yourself, you said he did windows now you say he does linux...
I stand by my position that a "true" programmer can do either, the OS is largely irrelevant these days with linux shells in windows and windows power shell trying to be like linux. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: oakpacific on May 29, 2013, 01:01:22 AM You are contradicting yourself, you said he did windows now you say he does linux... I stand by my position that a "true" programmer can do either, the OS is largely irrelevant these days with linux shells in windows and windows power shell trying to be like linux. No, you simply did not carefully read my original post. I said Satoshi was a Windows programmer, while Ashish is a thorough Linux progrmmer(and a very ideological one), so they may not be the same person. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Viceroy on May 29, 2013, 01:07:38 AM Thanks for the clarification.
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: kodo on May 29, 2013, 02:52:18 AM hmm this is interesting, there are so many people that could be satoshi I dont know if we will ever know for sure, unless satoshi comes out and shows proof :)
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 29, 2013, 05:25:29 AM In case somebody's canonizing a Satoshi Bible: http://www.panix.com/~tehom/quotes.htm
Quote Ashish Gulhati, hash@well.sf.ca.us 7. No plan survives the first contact intact. 13. Natural laws have no pity. 21. Always remember that stupidity is the only Universal Capital Crime. 26. If it's stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid. 36. Opening your mouth does create a space that your foot can fill all too easily. 37. Even Murphy's Law doesn't work all of the time. 39. Discretion is the better part of SURVIVAL. 41. There is a certain freedom in being totally screwed. It means that nothing you do is going to make it any worse. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 29, 2013, 05:42:19 AM https://groups.google.com/group/rec.travel.misc/tree/browse_frm/month/1994-11/345effc2b85863b8?rnum=221&utoken=Dyg4iSgAAAB-Cm_4Vy6NXdGn8Iz_A4rSrjerLTQgi5a18R7AtZrJO2a51OX86NFnmbN1eX6nxYU&_done=%2Fgroup%2Frec.travel.misc%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F1994-11%3Futoken%3DDyg4iSgAAAB-Cm_4Vy6NXdGn8Iz_A4rSrjerLTQgi5a18R7AtZrJO2a51OX86NFnmbN1eX6nxYU%26#doc_e1c00cbea51634ce
Quote Ashish Gulhati View profile More options Nov 8 1994, 9:15 am Slightly wacky 21 year old freelance student, writer, philosopher and technical consultant from India - on a tour of the US with a $320 USA Rail pass and 3 shoestrings seeks hosts in S.F. and Las Vegas. If you can supply this weary traveller with a bed for a night, a place to put his rucksack, and a power point to plug in his powerbook for recharging, he will be eternally grateful. Seriously - I will be in Las Vegas for Comdex around the 15th to the 18th, and in SF from the 19th to the 22nd. If anyone can host me for this time I will be very thrilled. I am on a zero money budget because the currency conversion coming from India totally screws things up financially. I can sing for my dinner and entertain you with incredible tales from India and from places I have travelled in the US (I'm interviewing Richard Stallman tomorrow). I also discuss philosophy and cyberspace issues engagingly, am fully toilet trained, and never heard of O.J. Simpson. My itinerary looks like this: Mon Nov 14-15: 1345-1935 Train to Vegas Wed Nov 16-18: Las Vegas (COMDEX) Fri Nov 19: 0830-2135 Train to SF Sat Nov 19-22: SF finger hash@well.sf.ca.us to find out more about me, and send me mail at the same address if you think you can accomodate me. TIA. Ashish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ashish Gulhati hash@well.sf.ca.us "Existence Exists" 140 Sunder Nagar, hash on IRC New Delhi 03, INDIA Sysop @ 6:606/7 Phone: +91-11-4615433 FAX/BBS +91-11-4601978 Ayn Rand ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For those aware, Ashish was not making a joke when he penned... Quote ...am fully toilet trained... ...but for those not up to speed, truth is stranger than fiction. Let's just say that nobody may want a guest in their home that doesn't use toilet paper, especially if they don't understanding the concept of it. Think the three shells in The Demolition Man. I've been to India, and Benjamin will concur with the following: Once, while holding court with several young men, one asked me why all the toilet paper in my case. I had to resort to pantomiming its use, whereupon they were all simply amazed. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Benson Samuel on May 29, 2013, 07:47:29 PM Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Bitinvestor on May 29, 2013, 08:48:04 PM Well, doubt he would have admitted it anyways :) Yes, until somebody comes up with a better candidate he will remain my favourite. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: PrintMule on May 29, 2013, 09:12:38 PM but what will the lost prophet change?
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: wtfvanity on May 29, 2013, 09:22:59 PM A few more just for fun.
http://www.cypherspace.org/bitcoin/satoshi.html http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/ Adam Back sure wants hashcash credited with bitcoin's invention. That is enough for me to think it isn't him because he is trying to claim credit for it. But Ashish... that's a little more interesting. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Benson Samuel on May 29, 2013, 09:26:29 PM Adam Back sure wants hashcash credited with bitcoin's invention. That is enough for me to think it isn't him because he is trying to claim credit for it. But Ashish... that's a little more interesting. Yes, Adam Beck came up as well in Phinnaeus's links. May have contributed a lot to the build up of the final product as well. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 29, 2013, 09:35:40 PM Amazingly, Bitcoin was nearing its first release into the wild shortly after the death of James Orlin Grabbe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe
Quote James Orlin Grabbe (pron.: /ˈɡreɪbiː/; October 8, 1947 – March 15, 2008) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe#Digital_Monetary_Trust Quote In November 1999, a series of articles in the Laissez Faire City Times presented the Digital Monetary Trust project, which was a proposed financial trust providing private, anonymous accounts for individuals and entities within the DMT system, in order to securely store anonymous capital or to make anonymous monetary transactions. That is, the DMT will be in the business of providing privacy, and doing so in a cryptographical framework which provides a more solid basis for customer anonymity than the traditional ones of (allegedly) tight-lipped bankers or (often-leaky) banking secrecy laws. —Orlin Grabbe Where was Grabbe during the mid to late 1999? Laissez Faire City. Where was Ashish during the same time period? Same place. Who at Laissez Faire City during the same time had the capability to develop such a system? Not Sonny Vleisides and his gang of programmers. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 29, 2013, 09:47:47 PM http://www.hashcash.org/source/CHANGELOG
Quote update everything to point at http://www.hashcash.org now we have the domain courtesy of it's previous owner Ashish Gulhati <agul@cpan.org> (at no charge -- he declined my offer to pay for it and instead gave it to me!) But hashcash.com is still controlled by Ashish and redirects to his site http://neomailbox.com/ Which begs the questions, was hashcash derived from a play on words since Ashish Gulhati has used the moniker/pseudonym 'hash' since the mid 90's? Ashish registered in his name all top level domains (.com, .net, .org) for hashcash back in March of 2001, only giving the .org one to Adam Back. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 29, 2013, 10:34:51 PM This is odd!: http://netropolis.in/silklist/msg04198.html
Quote Re: [silk] Free Dmitry Sklyarov! Subject: Re: [silk] Free Dmitry Sklyarov! From: Ashish Gulhati <hash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:39:28 +0530 Delivered-to: udhay@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in In-reply-to: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0107251713580.9704-100000@sun1.lrz-muenchen.de> List-archive: <http://dropkick.trouble-free.net/pipermail/silklist_arachnis.com/> List-help: <mailto:Silklist-request@arachnis.com?subject=help> List-id: Intelligent Conversation <silklist_arachnis.com.arachnis.com> List-post: <mailto:Silklist@arachnis.com> List-subscribe: <http://dropkick.trouble-free.net/mailman/listinfo/silklist_arachnis.com>, <mailto:Silklist-request@arachnis.com?subject=subscribe> List-unsubscribe: <http://dropkick.trouble-free.net/mailman/listinfo/silklist_arachnis.com>, <mailto:Silklist-request@arachnis.com?subject=unsubscribe> References: <20010725201941.B1570@kcircle.com> <Pine.SOL.4.33.0107251713580.9704-100000@sun1.lrz-muenchen.de> Sender: <mailman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [silk] Free Dmitry Sklyarov! Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:18:10 +0200 (MET DST) > camram-spam folks are working on an implementation. Essentially, you > refuse mail delivery unless it's paid with a digicash token. If it's not a > spam, you return the token. If you run out of your digicash stash, you're > grounded. As digital cash systems become more widespread, paying for mailing will become trivial. There are a number of systems that could be used today. Also see Adam Back's hashcash (no relation) system which implements a solution using payment in processing time, which is essentially the same deterrent that keeps script kiddies from being able to easily implement remote dictionary attacks against unix system passwords. #! Clearly this is written by Ashish. Note his sig that he's used elsewhere--#!. The hashcash domains were registered in his name in March of the same year the email exchanges took place, yet he's distancing himself from it. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 29, 2013, 11:33:13 PM From the I-can't-believe-what-I-just-found file:
Am the "Ashish Goel" in question. Not sure whether anyone is still reading this thread, but here goes some stuff. a) I did read everything about bitcoin on its web page b) Yes, the ripple model is the one I am more excited about. I am not the one who came up with the model (references are in http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0515) -- I am just developing theory for it with some students and trying to understand applications. So have no vested interest in pushing one model over the other. Also, not saying that ripple will work as a company, just that it is a more interesting currency. c) There is no need to point guns at anyone in the credit network model (our name for the ripple currency) -- the point of the model is that everyone accepts whatever currency they want, from whatever user, for whatever amount they like. d) I understand this is a bitcoin forum, so this will be an unpopular view. But I believe that a currency can only work if there is someone backing it. In a true P2P currency, trust must be vested in peers. Bitcoin relies completely on convention, which risks going the same way as the "tulip trade". e) Lots of nice beautiful stuff about bitcoin. Big fan of the beautiful crytographic ideas. Only disagreeing with the part about it not being clear who is being trusted. f) Any questions about the math in the paper or comments on the credit network model or ideas regarding the open problems? Shoot me an email at ashishg AT stanford DOT edu. Or just leave a comment here and I will monitor it. What is it with the name Ashish besides putting an H in front of it and dropping the last three letters resulting in Hash? Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Bitinvestor on May 30, 2013, 07:09:04 AM What is it with the name Ashish besides putting an H in front of it and dropping the last three letters resulting in Hash? You should smoke some then you'll know ;D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashish Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: YaCoinYeah on May 30, 2013, 07:18:02 AM ... http://thefree.in/ Quote FREE was created in July 1994 by Ashish Gulhati, Dr. Arun Mehta and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh as an online forum dedicated to protecting and enhancing fundamental human rights in the electronic domain, and representing the interests of the electronic community in India. http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/ <follow the link to read the following in its original format> http://web.archive.org/web/19970418092412im_/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/graphics/hash Quote My company, Netropolis Technologies, provides consultancy, training and software for Internetworking applications. ... Rand IMHO, Ayn Rand was this century's most profound thinker and the greatest literary artist of all time. Her portrayal of man as an independent, efficacious, rational being is worth experiencing, no matter which side you take in the violent controversy that surrounds her and her works. No matter with an IQ of 180 - anyone who believe's the bolded comments above is either extremely narrow minded or certifiably crazy. Major in philosophy, and prefers Ayn Rand over giants like Deluze, Nietzsche, Sartre... Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on May 30, 2013, 04:21:23 PM What is it with the name Ashish besides putting an H in front of it and dropping the last three letters resulting in Hash? You should smoke some then you'll know ;D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashish Yes, the full spelling of hash did slightly elude me, only pointing out the term associated with computers--hash. I took a puff of hash once, thinking at the time that you should take a deep puff and hold it like I've done only a small times before with dank. I learnt afterwards that the shit expands in your lungs. I'm pretty sure it was from that day forward I considerably scaled back my ulta-minor drug habit. To this day, I never spend money on drugs, with the exception of purchasing a purple microdot (of which I gave away to ?) in San Diego while at Mission Bay after completing Naval boot camp. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Viceroy on May 30, 2013, 07:16:04 PM No sir, you need this wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins edit: Don't mess with Satoshi /me slinks away Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: adam3us on June 05, 2013, 09:41:00 AM Proof that Ashish worked on Hashcash: http://web.archive.org/web/20070111153902/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/blog.cgi/About/CV.html?seemore=y Quote Code Meng Weng Wong's TextAmp Adam Back's HashCash Its strange because as far as I can tell Ashish did not contribute to the hashcash library (and there were a few dozen people did). Actually I had no idea who Ashish was other than the owner of hashcash.org (.com, .net) until reading this thread to realize he sounds like a pretty interesting open source crypto hacker and even involved with ecash related things at DMT which I was barely aware of though I had read some of the late J Orlin Grabbe's libertarian articles in the distant past. I didnt realize he was an economist (see his wikipedia). edit: Actually its not ambiguous the heading of the section on the above link is "As Seen On..." and includes sections for TV, news, magazines, and... code that mentions his name. And hashcash certainly did that in the context of his giving the domain name, gratis. Ashish did give me the domain - I think I offered $100 to have a better .org domain for the opensource project. His counter-offer to give it to me free was a pleasant surprise. He got me to make a PGP signed statement saying I wouldnt try to obtain hashcash.com nor hashcash.net. I notice now hashcash.net is for sale by one of those resellers so maybe he accidentally didnt renew it. The speculations about Ashish personality to be eschewing financial reward are interesting (re $100m of unclaimed BTC on the block chain). I dont know Ashish so I cant help there. But it is interesting that there are some cultures and religions that do intentionally forgo financial reward, and shy away from shows of wealth etc. I noticed some indian sub-cultures have that, but they are certainly not alone. Ashish apparently was/is involved in open source, and interesting projects like DMT where presumably most of the interest is the technology purist, or political freedom potential. Adam Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Este Nuno on June 05, 2013, 09:53:58 AM Proof that Ashish worked on Hashcash: http://web.archive.org/web/20070111153902/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/blog.cgi/About/CV.html?seemore=y Quote Code Meng Weng Wong's TextAmp Adam Back's HashCash Its strange because as far as I can tell Ashish did not contribute to the hashcash library (and there were a few dozen people did). Actually I had no idea who Ashish was other than the owner of hashcash.org (.com, .net) until reading this thread to realize he sounds like a pretty interesting open source crypto hacker and even involved with ecash related things at DMT which I was barely aware of though I had read some of the late J Orlin Grabbe's libertarian articles in the distant past. I didnt realize he was an economist (see his wikipedia). edit: Actually its not ambiguous the heading of the section on the above link is "As Seen On..." and includes sections for TV, news, magazines, and... code that mentions his name. And hashcash certainly did that in the context of his giving the domain name, gratis. Ashish did give me the domain - I think I offered $100 to have a better .org domain for the opensource project. His counter-offer to give it to me was a pleasant surprise. He got me to make a PGP signed statement saying I wouldnt try to obtain hashcash.com nor hashcash.net. I notice now hashcash.net is for sale by one of those resellers so maybe he accidentally didnt renew it. The speculations about Ashish personality to be eschewing financial reward are interesting (re $100m of unclaimed BTC on the block chain). I dont know Ashish so I cant help there. But it is interesting that there are some cultures and religions that do intentionally forgo financial reward, and shy away from shows of wealth etc. I noticed some indian sub-cultures have that, but they are certainly not alone. Ashish apparently was/is involved in open source, and interesting projects like DMT where presumably most of the interest is the technology purist, or political freedom potential. Adam Awesome. Thanks for your contribution. To both this thread and for inventing hashcash(aka bitcoin mining for those not familiar). Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on June 05, 2013, 04:47:57 PM Since this thread has been up, Ashish posted then deleted a tweet on Twitter pertaining to his connection to Satoshi, and http://hashcash.com/ no longer redirects to http://neomailbox.com/ currently depicting a page with...
Quote Coming soon... If you're looking for Adam Back's Hashcash project, it's here (http://www.hashcash.org/)... Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: wtfvanity on June 05, 2013, 04:52:06 PM Since this thread has been up, Ashish posted then deleted a tweet on Twitter pertaining to his connection to Satoshi, and http://hashcash.com/ no longer redirects to http://neomailbox.com/ currently depicting a page with... Quote Coming soon... If you're looking for Adam Back's Hashcash project, it's here (http://www.hashcash.org/)... dun dun dunnnnn Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: adam3us on June 06, 2013, 12:26:28 AM Since this thread has been up, Ashish posted then deleted a tweet on Twitter pertaining to his connection to Satoshi So what did the tweet say if you still have it.. enciphering minds need to know! (and undetweetable.com says they've been asked to shutdown). Adam Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on June 06, 2013, 01:52:56 AM Since this thread has been up, Ashish posted then deleted a tweet on Twitter pertaining to his connection to Satoshi So what did the tweet say if you still have it.. enciphering minds need to know! (and undetweetable.com says they've been asked to shutdown). Adam Here you go, Adam. Following leads from Ashish's last tweet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Chitnis Quote Atul Chitnis (February 20, 1962 – June 3, 2013) was a German-born Indian consulting technologist. He was also the founder of FOSS.IN[1] (formerly Linux Bangalore), which was one of Asia's largest free and open source software (FOSS) conferences. Quote Chitnis, along with other sysops including Ashish Gulhati, Kishore Bhargava, and Suchit Nanda, created an online campaign — the first of its kind in the Indian subcontinent — spreading via the various BBSs that had just begun spreading in India. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: mprep on June 06, 2013, 09:31:15 AM Since this thread has been up, Ashish posted then deleted a tweet on Twitter pertaining to his connection to Satoshi, and http://hashcash.com/ no longer redirects to http://neomailbox.com/ currently depicting a page with... Quote Coming soon... If you're looking for Adam Back's Hashcash project, it's here (http://www.hashcash.org/)... dun dun dunnnnn Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Benson Samuel on June 06, 2013, 09:16:06 PM Updated the post with the reply tweet.
http://bensonsamuel.com/2013/05/28/is-ashish-gulhati-an-indian-satoshi-nakamoto/ Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on June 07, 2013, 12:43:50 AM Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Viceroy on June 07, 2013, 01:12:00 AM clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on June 07, 2013, 06:20:45 AM < Tin Foil Hat Time ?>
Name an actor who played roles in the movie Atlas Shrugged and The Good Wife Bitcoin episode, and once replied to Amish when he was seeking a place to stay while in California. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: jackjack on June 07, 2013, 11:46:20 AM < Tin Foil Hat Time ?> Name an actor who played roles in the movie Atlas Shrugged and The Good Wife Bitcoin episode, and once replied to Amish when he was seeking a place to stay while in California. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on June 08, 2013, 06:57:48 PM < Tin Foil Hat Time ?> ???Name an actor who played roles in the movie Atlas Shrugged and The Good Wife Bitcoin episode, and once replied to Amish when he was seeking a place to stay while in California. I'll wait till more guess. Meanwhile... http://www.cottusinfo.com/Profile/1877185931 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8560/8989484510_fd77fbc162_o.jpg http://corporatedir.com/company/netropolis-technologies-private-limited https://angel.co/anarky Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: BitSmile on June 08, 2013, 07:18:36 PM Ashish Gulhati is more probably the Dread Pirate Roberts than Satoshi. Or he's both.
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: mprep on June 08, 2013, 09:21:09 PM Ashish Gulhati is more probably the Dread Pirate Roberts than Satoshi. Or he's both. I don't think he's any of them.Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: melvster on June 08, 2013, 09:30:58 PM Good try. Close fit. But is not he.
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: BitSmile on June 08, 2013, 10:53:47 PM Ashish Gulhati is more probably the Dread Pirate Roberts than Satoshi. Or he's both. I don't think he's any of them.Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: melvster on June 09, 2013, 11:40:15 PM Updated the post with the reply tweet. http://bensonsamuel.com/2013/05/28/is-ashish-gulhati-an-indian-satoshi-nakamoto/ Ted wilson? lol Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on June 10, 2013, 12:20:19 AM http://www.rediff.com/computer/1999/feb/20sense.htm
Quote Pawan, 33, logs on to a New Delhi BBS and meets Vipul Ved Prakash, 23, cryptologist. Vipul then meets Ashish, 48, who was judging a computer competition. Internet time, or not, that's three generations. But minds can be timeless and a friendship brew into a company. I'm puzzled by the age of Ashish (48), of which is the same as Ashish Gulhati outlined in this thread. Further proof in the last quote of this post. Quote General Logic Inc "We came up with the idea of forming a company and realised that the Net is the way to go," explains Pawan. Originally called Planet India, General Logic Inc now offers site hosting, security, and other Web related services. E-commerce is next on the agenda. http://web.archive.org/web/20030420055926/http://sensenet.net/hash/ Quote Here's a bunch of Perl modules I wrote to do various things. In 1995, I started work on a book on Object Oriented Perl for Manning Publications, but got sidetracked by other pursuits before I got past the first few chapters, which are now available as an online perl tutorial. (This title was eventually written by Damian Conway, who did a terrific job of it, and is available from Manning.) IMHO, Ayn Rand was this century's most profound thinker and the greatest literary artist of all time. Her portrayal of man as an independent, efficacious, rational being is worth experiencing, no matter which side you take in the heated debates that always seems to arise around her and her works. In 1997 I founded General Logic, along with Dr. Pawan Jaitly and Vipul Ved Prakash. The company aims to promote privacy and freedom of expression online. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: wtfvanity on June 10, 2013, 01:44:41 PM PG, do you search every topic out individually, or do you stumble on this while searching other topics? What happens when Satoshi messages you and asks you to stop? Do you or have you found the truth for all?
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: jeannie on June 10, 2013, 01:45:59 PM I think we can stop the guessing, if Satoshi doesn't come out to prove himself, our guesses will also be guesses.
Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Este Nuno on June 11, 2013, 11:16:32 AM PG, do you search every topic out individually, or do you stumble on this while searching other topics? What happens when Satoshi messages you and asks you to stop? Do you or have you found the truth for all? Interesting question. I'd like to know too what you would do if Satoshi asked you to stop your epic hunt for his identity. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: jackjack on June 11, 2013, 02:54:29 PM PG, do you search every topic out individually, or do you stumble on this while searching other topics? What happens when Satoshi messages you and asks you to stop? Do you or have you found the truth for all? Interesting question. I'd like to know too what you would do if Satoshi asked you to stop your epic hunt for his identity. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on June 11, 2013, 03:31:38 PM Dear PG,
I'm not Satoshi Nakamoto, but if I were, I wouldn't tell you. But he is in touch with me (I'm not Gavin, either) and has asked me to beg of you to stop pursuing me...I mean him. I'm sure there's probably some compensation in for you, therefore don't be afraid to name some price. Sincerely, not Satoshi Nakamoto Dear not Satoshi Nakamoto, I'll stop for a goat. Regards, PG Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Este Nuno on June 11, 2013, 07:09:02 PM I'll stop for a goat. I think your out of luck on this one. I believe he is happily married. Any other forum members you long for? Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on June 12, 2013, 12:37:34 AM I'll stop for a goat. I think your out of luck on this one. I believe he is happily married. Any other forum members you long for? Maria. Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Este Nuno on June 12, 2013, 06:56:09 AM I'll stop for a goat. I think your out of luck on this one. I believe he is happily married. Any other forum members you long for? Maria. http://images.memsaab.com/files/imagecache/node-gallery-display-750/files/2012/102957/aishwarya-rai-cute-sweet-smile-pic.jpg Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: rezurect on June 13, 2013, 07:00:28 AM In certain posts Satoshi uses British style spelling (ie, “optimisation”) but in others, he chooses American style (ie, “criticized”).
au.linkedin.com/in/agulhati (http://au.linkedin.com/in/agulhati) The Indian educational system follows British spellings (being a former British colony) Ashish pursued his bachelors degree in english in India, Delhi Vishwavidyalaya, B.A., English Literature (1993 – 1996). He also studied in the US, Willamette University (1991 – 1992) and Swinburne University of Technology MIT, IT (2009 – 2010). Such a person could use British and American English interchangeably without even knowing it. Its should be a fairly common trait among Indians who have their education/work split between India and US. My drop in this sea of speculation. Edit:Being a non-native English speaker, I use British spellings everywhere except the internet, where at times depending on the forum and the audience i deliberately use American spellings, the internet has weird influences. Its a choice non-native English speakers enjoy. For a person with an educational background spanning both sides of the hemisphere, interchanging spellings and styles should be natural. I know I've been criticized for being reluctant about listtransactions. Let me explain my reluctance. - Jgarzik's optimisation to speed up the initial block download a little Indian Spelling: India's Apollo Tyres to buy US based Cooper Tire for $2.5 billion http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/12/us-cooper-apollo-takeover-idUSBRE95B0H820130612 Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on June 13, 2013, 07:12:44 AM Satoshi uses British-style spelling (ie, “optimisation”) but in others, he chooses US style (ie, “criticized”). au.linkedin.com/in/agulhati (http://au.linkedin.com/in/agulhati) The Indian educational system follows British spellings (being a former British colony) Ashish pursued his bachelors degree in english in India, Delhi Vishwavidyalaya, B.A., English Literature (1993 – 1996). He also studied in the US, Willamette University (1991 – 1992) and Swinburne University of Technology MIT, IT (2009 – 2010). Such a person could use British and American English interchangeably without even knowing it. Its should be a fairly common trait among Indians who have their education/work split between India and US. My drop in this sea of speculation. Exactly! Title: Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? Post by: Pkzone on January 12, 2016, 02:48:47 PM Crypt::PGP5 - An Object Oriented Interface to PGP5. (http://search.cpan.org/~agul/Crypt-PGP5-1.38/PGP5.pm) Quote AUTHOR Crypt::PGP5 is Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Ashish Gulhati <hash@netropolis.org>. All Rights Reserved. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to Barkha for inspiration and lots of laughs; to Rex Rogers at Laissez Faire City for putting together a great environment to hack on freedom technologies; and of-course, to Phil Zimmerman, Larry Wall, Richard Stallman, and Linus Torvalds. Phil Zimmerman, Larry Wall, Richard Stallman, and Linus Torvalds = et al. (?) Rex Rogers (among other nyms) = James Ray Houston, Sonny Vleisides' (BFL) dad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashish_Gulhati http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Ashish-Gulhati.jpg/100px-Ashish-Gulhati.jpg Quote In 1999, he was involved with Laissez Faire City, where he developed Laissez Faire City's OpenPGP compatible messaging engine, and also deployed secure wireless links for Laissez Faire City's consultate in Costa Rica. Since 2000, he has been actively involved in various security and privacy related efforts http://www.hashcash.org/source/CHANGELOG Quote update everything to point at http://www.hashcash.org now we have the domain courtesy of it's previous owner Ashish Gulhati <agul@cpan.org> (at no charge -- he declined my offer to pay for it and instead gave it to me!) Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure Adam Back e-mail: adam@cypherspace.org 1st August 2002 Abstract Hashcash was originally proposed as a mechanism to throttle systematic abuse of un-metered internet resources such as email, and anonymous remailers in May 1997. Five years on, this paper captures in one place the various applications, improvements suggested and related subsequent publications, and describes initial experience from experiments using hashcash. The hashcash CPU cost-function computes a token which can be used as a proof-of-work. Interactive and noninteractive variants of cost-functions can be constructed which can be used in situations where the server can issue a challenge (connection oriented interactive protocol), and where it can not (where the communication is store–and– forward, or packet oriented) respectively. (http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf) Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper (http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09959.html) Quote I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully Satoshi Nakamoto Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:16:33 -0700[/url]peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party. The paper is available at: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf The main properties: Double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer network. No mint or other trusted parties. Participants can be anonymous. New coins are made from Hashcash style proof-of-work. The proof-of-work for new coin generation also powers the network to prevent double-spending. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) Quote References [1] W. Dai, "b-money," http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt, 1998. [2] H. Massias, X.S. Avila, and J.-J. Quisquater, "Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal trust requirements," In 20th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, May 1999. [3] S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "How to time-stamp a digital document," In Journal of Cryptology, vol 3, no 2, pages 99-111, 1991. [4] D. Bayer, S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Improving the efficiency and reliability of digital time-stamping," In Sequences II: Methods in Communication, Security and Computer Science, pages 329-334, 1993. [5] S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Secure names for bit-strings," In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pages 28-35, April 1997. [6] A. Back, "Hashcash - a denial of service counter-measure," http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf, 2002. [7] R.C. Merkle, "Protocols for public key cryptosystems," In Proc. 1980 Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, pages 122-133, April 1980. [8] W. Feller, "An introduction to probability theory and its applications," 1957. http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-200/2858-1/%7B0CFE248A-FD79-4397-99A3-44B2D0686BF4%7DImg200.jpg http://search.overdrive.com/ti/0cfe248a-fd79-4397-99a3-44b2d0686bf4-410-1-1-1-1/beautiful-code-andy-oram-greg-wilson-ebook Quote This book contains 33 chapters contributed by Brian Kernighan, Karl Fogel, Jon Bentley, Tim Bray, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Michael Feathers, Alberto Savoia, Charles Petzold, Douglas Crockford, Henry S. Warren, Jr., Ashish Gulhati, Lincoln Stein, Jim Kent, Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek, Adam Kolawa, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Diomidis Spinellis, Andrew Kuchling, Travis E. Oliphant, Ronald Mak, Rogerio Atem de Carvalho and Rafael Monnerat, Bryan Cantrill, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Simon Peyton Jones, Kent Dybvig, William Otte and Douglas C. Schmidt, Andrew Patzer, Andreas Zeller, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Arun Mehta, TV Raman, Laura Wingerd and Christopher Seiwald, and Brian Hayes. Quote Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell their story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty International. http://thefree.in/ Quote FREE was created in July 1994 by Ashish Gulhati, Dr. Arun Mehta and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh as an online forum dedicated to protecting and enhancing fundamental human rights in the electronic domain, and representing the interests of the electronic community in India. http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/ <follow the link to read the following in its original format> http://web.archive.org/web/19970418092412im_/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/graphics/hash Quote My company, Netropolis Technologies, provides consultancy, training and software for Internetworking applications. Netropolis Netropolis is an Extensible, Transparent, Reliable, Open, and Powerful On Line Interaction System. Well, it may not be all of that yet, but it sure makes for an impressive acronym. More details once I have a beta version ready. Greet Network At Greet Network, arguably the niftiest greeting card site on the Web, you can create a web page with custom artwork to convey your good wishes on a variety of special occasions. For only $4.95, you get a URL for your greeting that lasts for a month, and is completely mainainable through a web interface. I'm adding artwork and more nifty features to this site on a continuous basis. Web Architecture I think of website development as a form of architecture - the organization of virtual spaces, the functionality of the plan, the navigation paths, and the consistency of static and dynamic design are all-important to me. I've honed my skills at web architecture as the co-ordinator of Webware services at Silver Leaf Software, as the online editor of Connect Magazine, and through my own ventures. Technical Journalism I used to write a monthly column called Cyberpunk for India's largest selling and fastest growing computer magazine - PC Quest. Here are electronic versions of some of my articles for PC Quest and other Indian computer magazines. Looking For Work I will undertake interesting and/or specialized HTML and Perl hacking on a freelance basis in order to make some money in a hard currency ;-) I'm also looking for a job in Las Vegas. Employer should be willing and able to arrange an immigration visa. In exchange, I'll work cheap. Here's my resumé (http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/). I'm 22 years old, 5'10" tall, have long curly hair, dark eyes, pointed ears and an IQ of 180, according to those bright folks at Mensa. I'm always juggling some mad amount of activities and in the middle of reading an even madder number of books. I know what it sounds like, but it isn't ADD - thank God for small mercies. Education Having found much of my own formal education a tedious and boring process, bordering on the intolerable, I'm very interested in innovative educational techniques. Here you'll find some essays on education that I've written and some pointers to interesting education related sites. India Well, it's my country. Here's my constantly evolving web-project to present a rather different perspective on "the gritty, sexy, real India", to borrow a wonderful phrase from Karl Taro Greenfeld. PGP Public Key Mail to me in India is easily and routinely read by sysadmins at the government-owned service provider. If you can, use PGP when mailing me. PERL, I like to insist, stands for Perl-Emacs-Rand-Linux, the four things I'm most passionate about. So here are my pages on these modern-day wonders. (Most pages are still under construction. Should be up 'soonish' ;-). Perl Larry Wall's interpreted systems language, Perl, features a potent mix of the best 'magic beads' from languages of the past, a very tight economy of expression, zero bureaucratic baggage, and more than one way to do anything. It's now object oriented, extensible, embeddable, and better than ever. Emacs Richard Stallman's full-screen, extensible, customizable, self-documenting editor with a built-in lisp system. 'Nuff said. This beast is the greatest boon to efficiency since the roller ball bearing, and it runs on practically any platform. Rand IMHO, Ayn Rand was this century's most profound thinker and the greatest literary artist of all time. Her portrayal of man as an independent, efficacious, rational being is worth experiencing, no matter which side you take in the violent controversy that surrounds her and her works. Linux The Operating System "of the people, for the people, by the people", Linux is a veritable revolution in free software. Having used and reviewed practically every desktop OS in common use, I found that Linux is simply the coolest way to run your computer. It's my OS of choice and I'm an outspoken Linux advocate in India. http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/ Quote Name: Ashish Gulhati DoB: 16 October 1973 Address: 140 Sunder Nagar, New Delhi-3, India Phone: +91 11 4615433 Fax: +91 11 4601978 E-Mail: hash@netropolis.or <Please, Jehovah, don't tell me it's the same day BFL was planning to ship!> Satoshi Nakamoto will be 40 years old this year. How's on the birthday party committee? Also from his resume: Quote With this foray into electronic commerce, I developed a sense of the economics of the Internet, and measured the revenue-generation potential of the Web as marketplace. Encouraged by my initial discoveries, I am going to focus most of my energies on this activity for the foreseeable future. Quote Since September 1997, I have been developing and maintaining the website of The American Reporter, mostly gratis, motivated by the unique nature of the publication and its role in the defeat of the Communications Decency Act. Surely does explain why Satoshi's fond of the word Karma. I did my part. Feel free to now punch holes in my theory or verify what I've presented. Hmm, I would compare Satoshi's sleeping and writing times to a typical Indian's I think it could be true. :O :O :O |
