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Some troll hacker has claimed to have gained access to satoshin@gmx.com (Satoshi Nakamoto's email account)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775174.0

He is asking for 25 BTC donation in order to reveal Satoshi's true identity and other related info.

Why shouldn't we start a fund raiser to collect 50 BTC and offer it as bounty to whoever tracks and shoots this hacker?

Ignored such claimant. Probably scam! If the hacker finds the private key of Satoshin's bitcoin account, he will be silent and cash out the bitcoin to spend.

The more you talk about it the more he will continue to troll. All everyone has to do is ignore what's happening and move on.

Because it's illegal, I'm pretty sure.

Edit: IANAL

[Threatening to] Dox someone makes it okay to murder them?

Satoshi would be ashamed.

He probably doesn't have any info on Satoshi and if he does what does that have to do with us? He's just begging for donations. He could still release the info even if he got money anyway so it's pointless. Just let him have his five minutes of fun.

This hacker even if they wanted that amount of BTC does not have any solid proof they have what he says he has and even if he does have it why would we want to know it? If this person truly has the details then why would they want to give the details away if they could cash out themselves and probably get more?

Excellent idea! And we'll have a user with ten posts or less act as the escrow agent.  ::)

Because that would be immoral, disproportionate and counter-productive.  ::)

Where did the hacker ask for 25btc? Maybe i missed that bit.
Don't really think we need a bounty, if the US goverment thinks this guy has info on Satoshi then they would probably be already beating it out of him.

Has it been confirmed yet whether he has truly hacked the email or just registered it after expiring?

Because putting bounties on people is a very dumb thing to do, in my opinion. We're trying to push a decentralized currency, not backed by a single entity, yet suddenly we get all afraid because an email account got hacked? That sounds pretty childish!

http://pastebin.com/7gbPi8Qr

Not sure why everyone cares so much about a throw away e-mail lol

Yes it's been confirmed. Jesus.

Well something like this is bound to cause excitement and intrigue especially in these slow and unexciting bitcoin times.

Do you have a link with such confirmation?

I suspect the hacker is bluffing. Just look at the way Bitcoin is set up, there is a paranoid level of security in key pair implementation alone - elliptic curve multiplication, SHA256, and RIPEMD-160 - he knows better than most that hackers will find a way. He would not leave such an obvious trace. IP Address maybe, but the hacker claiming "The fool used a primary gmx under his full name and had aliases set up underneath it" just screams bullshit.

Unless Satoshi wanted to be found. I imagine there could be a few benefits that come along with accepting the identity of Bitcoin's creator.

You're a confirmed scumbag for the title of the post. 

Thank you, duly noted.

Next, please!

Let's do it! crowdfund (http://www.bitcoinstarter.com) it !

At this moment it does not seem like the hacker troll has any substantial info about what he claims.

But if he is able to prove that he indeed has this information and is willing to reveal it, I will consider starting a bounty on http://coinfunder.com/

satoshi should add some coins to the bounty.. i dont' see why not, since he has 1 million coins.

Exactly.

This would not be okay. Regardless the hacker is likely hiding behind TOR and/or a VPN which would make finding him very unlikely.

He is also more likely then not lying about knowing satashi's identity so there will be nothing to reveal.

The "hacker" has already been doxed. Man you guys are slow

often times, its the most minor of simple habits, or things that do one in. not saying I think Satoshi is soon be to revealed ( the sum of its whole won't allow it ). but the theory that one who believes in and practices cryptology could not make a mistake is silly.

it's a nice piece of tech , a change of pace, and breath of fresh air in a stagnant world, but the creators are still very much human.

And what if something then happens to him? Silk Road is still often dragged into the conversation when the press talks about Bitcoin... Imagine if they could even remotely spin this into a way that makes it sound like the Bitcoin community put a hit out on the guy (even if it was just a call to bring him to justice).

satoshi fucking christ! this is getting dumb! we don't need bad publicity!!