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A longer interval than 10 minutes would be appropriate for BitDNS.

So far in this discussion there's already a lot of housekeeping data required.  It will be much easier if you can freely use all the space you need without worrying about paying fees for expensive space in Bitcoin's chain.  Some transactions:

Changing the IP record.

Name change.  A domain object could entitle you to one domain, and you could change it at will to any name that isn't taken.  This would encourage users to free up names they don't want anymore.  Generated domains start out blank and the miner sells it to someone who changes it to what they want. 

Renewal.  Could be free, or maybe require consuming another domain object to renew.  In that case, domain objects (domaincoins?) could represent the right to own a domain for a year.  The spent fee goes to the miners in the next block fee.

Piling every proof-of-work quorum system in the world into one dataset doesn't scale.

Bitcoin and BitDNS can be used separately.  Users shouldn't have to download all of both to use one or the other.  BitDNS users may not want to download everything the next several unrelated networks decide to pile in either.

The networks need to have separate fates.  BitDNS users might be completely liberal about adding any large data features since relatively few domain registrars are needed, while Bitcoin users might get increasingly tyrannical about limiting the size of the chain so it's easy for lots of users and small devices.

Fears about securely buying domains with Bitcoins are a red herring.  It's easy to trade Bitcoins for other non-repudiable commodities.

If you're still worried about it, it's cryptographically possible to make a risk free trade.  The two parties would set up transactions on both sides such that when they both sign the transactions, the second signer's signature triggers the release of both.  The second signer can't release one without releasing the other.

Where he explained that certain set of first, second, and forth posts were permanently deleted because they probably contains Satoshi's real names and address.

you can not possibly know that. just like we can not know who Satoshi really is. just being good at writing in English doesn't mean English is not someone's second language!

i have never heard this one before! do you have a source for this?
it is kind of hard to believe someone voluntarily publishes his real name and "address" on a public forum for no reason. and if that someone is Satoshi (a pseudo name chosen to protect the real identity) it becomes even less believable.

1, 2, and 4 exist in the staff forum. 3 was permanently deleted at some point (it must have contained Satoshi's real name and address).

There are Japanese in forex forum I sometimes visit and I can see they write perfect grammar. Nothing unusual for a person to learn English as 2nd language.

There is no real information about Satoshi but just the things he created. He may not be an American either nor a European unless he will prove himself.  No matter what his nationality may be, the crypto community will still be grateful to his product.  

Nakamoto claimed to be a 37-year-old male who lived in Japan, but some speculated he was unlikely to be Japanese due to his use of perfect English and his bitcoin software not being documented or labelled in Japanese.

Occasional British English spelling and terminology (such as the phrase "bloody hard") in both source code comments and forum postings led to speculation that Nakamoto, or at least one individual in the consortium claiming to be him, was of Commonwealth origin.

Forget about what his wiki page is saying or whatever we have read about him. Reading through Satoshi's post on this forum, anyone with common sense and good understanding of English language could see clearly that the Bitcoin founder is by no means a Japanese. I spent the whole day reading through them, and here are some outstanding posts he made prior to his disappearance. The perfect use of English is telling and undeniable.

I found the direct quote from theymos, and here's it below

It's called a joke.  ::)

In case it wasn't obvious enough that he was joking, he also clarified it in this post:

Why would someone who has gone to such great lengths to hide his identity, name, address, IPs, etc. then openly post his name and address anywhere online, let alone on a forum he was about to open to the public and give other people access to? It makes no sense. Far more likely is that he was simply testing out the trash can and moderator functions on deleting threads.

Forget about what his wiki page is saying or whatever we have read about him. Reading through Satoshi's post on this forum, anyone with common sense and good understanding of English language could see clearly that the Bitcoin founder is by no means a Japanese. I spent the whole day reading through them, and here are some outstanding posts he made prior to his disappearance. The perfect use of English is telling and undeniable.




Again, it seems that even @theymos may probably know his true identity (real names and address) according to a forum comment he made in 2010. Where he explained that certain set of first, second, and forth posts were permanently deleted because they probably contains Satoshi's real names and address.

Forget about what his wiki page is saying or whatever we have read about him. Reading through Satoshi's post on this forum, anyone with common sense and good understanding of English language could see clearly that the Bitcoin founder is by no means a Japanese. I spent the whole day reading through them, and here are some outstanding posts he made prior to his disappearance. The perfect use of English is telling and undeniable.

I strongly agree that Satoshi was probably not a Japanese but I strongly disagree that it was his strong command of English that proves this.

My English is not perfect but by the way neither is Satoshi's language. I respect him a lot but I do not see him as a perfect god with perfect english and perfect coding, I think he is outstanding but please.

You are right. His English is not perfect but it sounds more western. That's the point I was trying to make in the original post.

"Perfect use of English" does not exclude people for whom English is a second language. For example, the great writer Vladimir Nabokov is native to Russia, but I find that his command of the English language is better than most native English speakers.

Stefan Thomas, a Swiss coder and active community member, graphed the time stamps for each of Nakamoto's bitcoin forum posts (more than 500); the resulting chart showed a steep decline to almost no posts between the hours of 5 a.m. and 11 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time. This was between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Japanese time, suggesting an unusual sleep pattern for someone presumably living in Japan. As this pattern held true even on Saturdays and Sundays, it suggested that Nakamoto was asleep at this time.[8]

Today, Satoshi's true identity has become a mystery. But at the time, I thought I was dealing with a young man of Japanese ancestry who was very smart and sincere. I've had the good fortune to know many brilliant people over the course of my life, so I recognize the signs.

I don't think he was a Japanese either, but for different reasons.

If he wants to hide his identity, he would naturally hide his nationality as well. Every piece of information he gives about his personal life can be linked together, reducing his chances to stay anonymous.

I don't understand why so many people are worried about who is Satoshi.

It really doesn't matter to me, and if one day someone appears providing some cryptography proof of his identity (like a signed message from the first coinbase tx), it would definitely be bad for bitcoin, because it would be a way to centralize it. Like Vitalik's blockchain.

Does it matter what nationality it is Satoshi Nakamoto? I think that's one trivial thing, which even being known would mean nothing if someone wanted to discover the true identity of the Bitcoin inventor.

Language is something that can be learned very well, and maybe Satoshi is of Japanese origin, but he spent most of his life in UK or USA. Maybe that would be a logical explanation why some people think he is Japanese, and others dismiss it because of his proficiency in English.

One of the first associates who work with Satoshi Nakamoto says this about him :


I personally respect Hal Finney opinion, and I think that only people who were close to Satoshi can give some good info about him, everything else is just speculation.

There are Japanese in forex forum I sometimes visit and I can see they write perfect grammar. Nothing unusual for a person to learn English as 2nd language.

There is no real information about Satoshi but just the things he created. He may not be an American either nor a European unless he will prove himself.  No matter what his nationality may be, the crypto community will still be grateful to his product.