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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_davis

+1 Great stuff  ;D

Seems like it may be an entertaining read but I'm not a subscriber. Does anyone know of somewhere to read this without being one?

Nobody subscribes to the New Yorker. They are just given out freely to be placed in dentist and doctor waiting rooms.

Sounds about right but not in my area. I'm not paying $6 to read one article... oh well. C'est la vie.

Finally some good press, nice article.

If someone wants to post a copy of this up on Ubitio.us or BitcoinService.co.uk, I'd pay a fraction of a bitcoin to read it...

Everyone should read this, I enjoyed it.

Litt, we can't, it's subscriber content... if you posted your user/pass we could read it :P (jk)

I might even say it's worth it if you enjoy reading about bitcoins. It's covers all the basics without bias imo and the best article I've read covering bitcoin by media. I espcially enjoyed reading about Satoshi investigation and the quote "Bitcoin will survive a nuclear attack".  ;D

someone could at least post some relevant excertps here as long as it's not the whole artile and you make mention of the original source

The New Yorker article is big news for us in several respects.

First of all, for those of you who have hoped some extremely wealthy individuals would invest even a small fraction of the wealth they manage in the bitcoin economy for fun, that will happen in the wake of this article or never.  New Yorker has successfully targeted the wealthiest demographic in New York for decades.  It is riddled with ads for financial management companies, villas for rent in Italy and Spain, Tiffany jewelry, etc.  The article may not be on the internet, but I guarantee you that as of this evening it will be sitting on every single coffee table along Fifth Avenue and Central Park West.

Second of all, it is one of the most prestigious gigs for journalists, and all of their articles are top-notch.  This one is no exception – it explains Bitcoin beautifully, and is *very* engaging and positive.

But most significantly, I am convinced that the investigative journalist who wrote it, Joshua Davis, has successfully identified Satoshi!  You heard it here first: Michael Clear.

This article is absolutely worth six bucks to read, could even be a catalyst for a new bubble, or better, could win over someone powerful enough to move the commercial acceptance of bitcoin forward in a very significant way.

Mentioned on NPR Planet Money blog - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/03/141011155/did-a-reporter-just-solve-the-bitcoin-mystery (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/03/141011155/did-a-reporter-just-solve-the-bitcoin-mystery)

Thanks for the heads-up on this forum.  It was good enough news to provoke me into gobbling up some more BTC.

As much as I advocate Bitcoin, I really don't think you should be eating it =/

I should have said 'changing the color of some poker chips'.  ;)

Yes, we did. That's why he asked for somewhere to read the article; you linked to a summary, not the original article.

It's an article sent from the future...

The article is available for your Kindle (but not Kindle app on PC?!) for $2.99/mo.

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Yorker/dp/B001O2SCKI/

Note that there is a 14 day free trial where you can cancel the subscription within that time and get refunded. I haven't tried this myself b/c I only have the PC app anyway.

It's not available for people in Australia either, according to the Amazon page.

That's right. I think only USA as I had my Kindle account "located in" Canada and had to change it to USA to get the price to show up, and then I found out it doesn't support download to PC app anyway.

http://ubitio.us/file/download/631 (0.1 BTC - help pay for my $6.99/month subscription)
http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/1155 (0.0 BTC - but I'm not going to force you to pay)

Concerning the full article as opposed to the abstract: That was absolutely the best Bitcoin article I've ever seen, by far. Joshua Davis has been researching this for months. If I can find a New Yorker on a store shelf, I'm going to buy it.

I must add to that. He is WAAAAAAAAAAAY OFF on (Satoshis's Trail(TM) E-Book available soon at amazon.com). Keep guessing.

Maria.

It seems the story in the new yorker is enough to convince some of the Irish.

Downloaded from ubitious and reading right now - upload legit. And really fascinating!

Is it actually possible to pay 0BTC?  When I try to enter 0 into the "spend coins" dialog of bitcoin version 0.4.0, I get the message "Error in amount."

You don't have to, the download will start automatically after a while.

It's indeed a very good article. The reporter is very talented and dedicated. He has good writing skills, and the "detective work" was well done.

Agreed, great article. Wonderful writing and narrative.

Just reload the page without sending btc and the download starts.

 Thanks; that didn't seem to be the case before, but it does now.

The article says What's the evidence for this?  Is it somehow verfiable in the block chain?

 This does not seem to be literally true.   Am I searching incorrectly, or are there actually explicit (but different) comments in the repository somewhere?

Of course it's not literally true. It's just some way of saying that any flaw the guy initially thought he could exploit had already been foreseen by Satoshi.

FWIW, I've taken the PDF posted on cryptome, transcribed it, and put some work into annotating all its claims and references: http://www.gwern.net/docs/2011-davis

If nothing else, it's much more pleasant to read and easier to quote.