Scammers are very sly - can you spot the difference between the real https://www.cryptopia.co.nz  and the fake https://www.cryptopía.co.nz ?
Click on them and see the difference.

Often users think that their accounts are getting hacked or the exchange has been compromised. This is usually not the case. Most of the time users have been the victim of a phishing scam. Some quite basic but often quite sophisticated.


  
Some exchanges do not have a phone app - MOST advertised apps are scams
Be extremely careful clicking links from search engines - popular search engines like Google and Bing have scam sites listed.
Most exchanges do not have a support phone number - phone numbers advertised on third party sites or forums are usually scams
Official Twitter accounts are often spoofed - Make sure the twitter account is REAL and not a scammers CLONE. Differences are often very subtle.
Cryptopia does NOT have 2FA via SMS - this is a scam
Exchanges send emails using their registered domain - anything else is a scam. BinanceSupport@gmail.com is not real.
Also make sure that the email is not spoofed - it may look like the genuine sender. Don't click on links in emails.
BOTs are great but also carry risk - If you use a BOT you may get scammed. Free BOTs are often a scam.
Exchange staff will NEVER ask for your password or 2FA - if you give it to someone you will get scammed
 
The ONLY safe way to resolve a support issue is through a support ticket on the site you have the problem with.
Social media and forum help is unable to be safely verified. - You won't know for sure if they are staff or a scammer.
Social media accounts have been hacked and fake accounts have been verified by twitter.


 


People need to take more security precautions:  
Use google Authenticator or alternative DYNAMIC 2FA.
Use an email account with 2FA enabled and used the highest security settings that is not used for anything other than the exchange.  (gmail or protonmail)
Do not use apps on your phone if you use your phone for Crypto or the crypto email. Scam apps target crypto users.
Other apps on your phone can compromise the security of your phone.
Do not have Crypto wallets on the computer you use for account access.
BEWARE : Some coin personal wallets contain viruses and keystroke loggers that may steal the information from your computer.
Have a firewall, anti virus and anti malware from a reputable provider.
Do not click on links from seach engines or other sites to go to your exchange.
Always check the site security certificate.
Do not use bots unless you are 100% certain the bot is safe. Limit bot access to your funds by having multiple accounts. Most advertised bots are scams and will steal your crypto. Only get your bot from a reputable vendor.
Avoid WIFI - public wifi and unsecured WIFI is very unsafe. All WIFI is vulnerable.
Do not log onto and exchange with computers you don't own or have full control over.
NEVER EVER give your password or 2FA to someone else.
Use different email addresses and different passwords for different exchanges.



Scammers are now using DODGY security certificates. Make sure the security certificate is from the correct certifier.
 
TROJAN ALERT: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/evrial-trojan-switches-bitcoin-addresses-copied-to-windows-clipboard/ is a trojan virus which changes any cryptocurrency address that is on your clipboard to a different address - ALWAYS take care to ensure the address that has been entered is the one you're intending to send to.


  
Using a pin for 2FA is not recommended. It is easy for a hacker to use a keystroke logger on your computer to gain access to your password and pincode.
Some recent coin wallets have had keystroke loggers and viruses built into them. For this reason you should never have coinwallets on the computer you use to access an exchange.
 

 
An exchange has no way of identifying a thief if they use valid logon credentials. It is like when your bank card AND PIN have been stolen - the ATM or bank is not at fault.
If you visit a scam site that looks like your exchange you are giving the scammer your email address, password and 2FA
That is not hacking - it is known as phishing. The exchange has no way of knowing that a scammer has all your VALID login cerdentials because YOU have accidentally given it to them.
For this reason you should take extreme care in keeping your logon credentials safe. For extra security use a unique email address that you only use for only one exchange. Have 2FA enabled on that email addres as well. SMS reset or SMS for 2FA is not particularly safe.


 
https://haveibeenpwned.com/ You can check here if your email address has been compromised by a previous hack.
Unfortunately if your account has been phished the scammers remove the funds within a few minutes. (Unless your withdrawal limit prevents them for doing this). All phishing attacks should be reported to the police.
 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/metamask/nkbihfbeogaeaoehlefnkodbefgpgknn  Metamask chrome (also available for firefox) can warn you about phishing sites.
 
IMPORTANT: If your email has been hacked or you have been phished please make a support ticket immediately. Change your password and 2FA immediately on your exchange account AND your change the email address you use for the exchange.
 
A great 'one stop shop' for everything you need to ensure your account has security wise:



EDIT: Added image:



Source:
Scammers spoofing cryptocurrency exchanges
My earlier post on another forum

Bittrex, Binance, Bitfinex, Coinexchange.io, Coinhako, Coinpayments, Cryptopia, Exodus, Kucoin,  Koinex, Ledger, Liqui, SimplexFX , Bithumb and Huobi all don't accept smart contracts. (Incomplete list).

What makes it particularly awkward is that some exchanges like Bitstamp,  Coinmama and Lykke send withdrawals as smart contract payments.

Bitstamps has the following warning when you send Ethereum.


A lot of exchanges warn:

It avoids problems if you send smart contract payments to MEW or a personal wallet and then to an exchange.

It will reach the other exchange but cannot be processed by them. Some exchanges will manually recover it. Some exchanges will charge a fee for manual recovery and some exchanges won't recover it.

A lot of exchanges do not accept smart contracts. There are good reasons for this.

With a NORMAL transaction the ETH is sent from the senders address via the blockchain to the receiver address.

With a SMART CONTRACT  a 0 ETH transaction with instructions (code) is sent to the CONTRACT address. The contract address then executes a internal transaction (code) to the receiver address.

Smart contracts also don't have just a single way it can be coded - or by who. A smart contract is custom code.

Smart contracts can be vulnerable for exploits:
Smart contracts leave millions vulnerable
Security Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts
Smart contract exploit training

NORMAL transaction and how it appears on the block explorer



SMART CONTRACT transaction and how it appears on the block explorer





It avoids problems if you send smart contract payments to MEW or a personal wallet and then to an exchange.

Due to the way smart contracts work and the way most exchange APIs work there is a risk in accepting payments from smart contracts. Smart contracts are not without risk. There is also no universal standard as to the code of a smart contract

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cryptocurrency/researchers-find-34-200-vulnerable-ethereum-smart-contracts/

The pincode is what you selected when you signed up. You can request a 2FA reset.

If you cannot access your account and need to reset your 2FA, Cryptopia Support Team will need to assist you. Please, send an email to support@cryptopia.co.nz and they will be able to help you reset your 2FA.

Otherwise you need to make a support ticket and ask to reset your 2FA.

In your email, to enable them to verify that you are the account owner, please, provide them with a minimum of three records of your account information from the list below:  
Recent deposits
Withdrawals and trades
Your balances
Wallet address
Payment IDs
Tx ID’s
Login dates
IP address
Registration date
 
https://support.cryptopia.co.nz/csm?id=kb_article&sys_id=e6065021dbed1f009990f6fcbf96195a

Genuine 1993 Lamborghini 59.7 kW (80 hp) 4WD  for less than a bitcoin. No need to wait for the moon !





https://www.mascus.co.uk/agriculture/used-tractors/lamborghini,1,price_asc,search.html

paxmao and amishmanish

Thank you for pointing this out. I've updated the post to reflect your corrections. I've also added a link to a great post by subvolatil

https://youtu.be/NCRh6zzWnVY Craig Wright interview.

Craig Wright is not Satoshi. He has a temper that would have shown at some stage of the writings.
I think he and Dave Kleiman have mined a lot of blocks but I think he has lied to the estate.
In my opinion his evasiveness, temper and broken promises are classic signs that he doesn't have the evidence to back up his claims and is not telling the full truth.

Even if Kleiman was Satoshi - I don't think Wright has got the private keys.

A lot of the claims made by Wright were made in 2011 before people were actively tracking bitcoin addresses and a lot of his claims are demonstratively false.

Technically it doesn't matter whether you defraud for $1 million or $1 billion - the punishment is the same. The notoriety is more if it is for $1 billion.

I'd love to see some more emails written by Kleiman. That Wizsec article also doesn't believe Craigs stories. https://blog.wizsec.jp/2018/02/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoins.html

Wright claimed AU$54 million in tax rebates for R&D in 2014/15. That is a lot of motive for a hoax. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-australian-who-may-have-invented-bitcoin-claimed-to-have-landed-54m-in-taxpayer-funded-rebates-2015-12

Wrights own mother claims he has a habit of lying: http://archive.is/kjuLi#selection-1655.0-1655.94

Craig Wrights MtGox account also is not that of a "whale" https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hx3q9/according_to_the_mtgox_leaks_from_early_2014_our/

Wright also claimed to have a  PhD in computer science with Sydney's Charles Sturt University (CSU). But the university denied ever handing him a Phd.


Even if I knew who he or she was I wouldn't out them publicly.  But speculation will never stop. But I'd hate it if a fraud is identified as the real Satoshi.

This thread is a consolidation of all the theories. Logical, imagined and just plain goofy.

While their identity may never be known, Satoshis writing is his real legacy.

That is also my viewpoint. I rather not know. I think the mystery makes it more intriguing. Some legends are better as legends. Like Merlin and Robin Hood.
It is better to focus on his writing rather than his identity.  It is quite obvious that he was very concerned about privacy. His association with the cypherpunks proves he was deeply concerned about privacy.

There are also some other very smart people who were involved in the creation of bitcoin and some of them lurk on bitcointalk.

It is also quite possible and quite likely that he was involved in Government level work and divulging his identity might have caused serious issues for him.

Nee niet compremised. Ze hebben hun 2FA verandered. 2FA probleem

Each portfolio needs to be based on its own merits and risks assessed. I don't think there is a magic formula. Only time will tell.

In the US Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline in 2006 and 2007, and reached new lows in 2012.

1890s Australian banking crisis.  Population contracted by 12% and the Melbourne property market fell 51%. It took the market 19 years to return to its peak of 1889. Sydney’s property market also fell, but by the smaller amount of 36%.

Property that is unable to be rented out (still have to pay real estate based taxes) or has a value below the mortgage value is a liability.

Property that is able to grow food or firewood in a crisis can be an asset.

The Greek government extended bank closures and a €60 (£43; $66) daily limit on ATM withdrawals. Banks can close and money in banks can be lost in an financial crisis. A lot of people lost their savings.

Cash can be subject to hyperinflation in a financial crisis but it can also be useful in a natural disaster.

Executive Order 6102. Executive Order 6102 is a United States presidential executive order signed on April 5, 1933, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States".

Untraceable bullion can be hoarded and used (illegally) on the black market when such regulations are made.

Crypto currencies won't work well in a solar flare, cyber war, power crisis, major internet infrastructure damage etc.

Crypto can potentially be very profitable.

Added to the list and added you as a source. Here is a good post that debunks that theory: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3032215.msg31194506#msg31194506

I don't have a strong opinion on the matter. I quite like the mystery.

Some more less likely theories:



Satoshis missing posts:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=37743.0


Stefan Thomas did a symilar experiment in 2011 and concluded that if Satoshi Nakamoto is a single individual with conventional sleeping habits, it suggests he resided in a region using the UTC−05:00 or UTC−06:00 time offset. This includes the parts of North America that fall within the Eastern Time Zone and Central Time Zone, as well as parts of Central America, the Caribbean and South America. It is a large and populated area.

It also gives some credibility to the theory that Hal Finney was Satoshi. I've just been researching Satoshi and stumbled onto your post.

Satoshi was also a very careful person that was very concerned about privacy so he may have deliberately posted between certain times or if he was from Japan it wouldn't have been unusual for him to be working throughout the weekends. The times he didn't post could also indicate he was working at that time. Perhaps as a University lecturer.

After his first post, in which he used American spelling, he switched to English spelling for all the rest.


I think you proved Theymos rarely sleeps.  


Are you sure ?  



 Who is Satoshi Nakamoto ? Suspects, frauds and conspiracies.

I've just answered that in this thread Who is Satoshi Nakamoto ? Suspects, frauds and conspiracies.

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto ?

Satoshi Nakamoto is a talented cipher and coder.
Wrote the whitepaper on bitcoin "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" and published it on the cypherpunks mailing list in October 2008
Developed the code for bitcoin and founded https://bitcointalk.org
He used an e-mail address and a web site that is untraceable.
In 2009 and 2010, he wrote hundreds of posts in flawless English.
He invited other software developers to help him improve the code, and corresponded with them,
He never revealed any personal details.
Stefan Thomas, a Swiss coder and active community member, graphed the time stamps for each of Nakamoto's bitcoin forum posts and found:
He made almost no posts between the hours of 5 a.m. and 11 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time.
In April, 2011, he sent a note to a developer saying that he had “moved on to other things.” He has not been heard from since.

His birthday is said to be on April 5, 1975 according to this post.
(But it is likely that he didn't select his real birth-date)

His writing is clean, with few typos.
He shows a high proficiency in English. Making very few mistakes.
After his first post, in which he used American spelling, he switched to English spelling for all the rest.



Was Satoshi a good coder ?



Someone hacked Satoshis email account to try and discover who he is:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2062951.0

There are websites dedicated to preserving the writings of Satoshi Nakamoto:
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/
http://satoshinakamoto.me/
The Dai / Nakamoto Emails:
https://www.gwern.net/docs/bitcoin/2008-nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto translated (meaning) https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@decentro/satoshi-nakamoto-a-comprehensive-translation-of-an-enigma


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=399281.msg4336076#msg4336076

Lots of people have been suspected of being Satoshi:

People who corresponded with him have all been named as suspects:

‎Hal Finney, Martti Malmi,  Adam Back, Michael Marquardt, Gavin Andresen and Wei Dai.

But in doing so are we minimising those individuals own contribution to Bitcoin.
They may not be the founder but they are the apostles.

Bitcoin is a collaboration of efforts based on a combination of ideas all consolidated in this whitepaper
It was then executed by a group of individuals, both identified and anonymous.


Many threads with some compelling arguments have been made about it.

I'm not going to duplicate the theories but have instead provided the links to various theories on here:

People or organisations that have been suspected of being Satoshi:

Charles Bry, David Chaum, Neal J. King, Shinichi Mochizuki, John Nash, Tatsuaki Okamoto, Vladimir Oksman, Gavin Andresen, Andreas Antonopoulos, Peter Bachman, John Perry Barlow, Doug Barnes, Michel Bauwens, BCNext, Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Bell, Kay Bell, Tamas Blummer, Nicholas Bohm, S. Boxx, Stefan Brands, Eli Brandt, Greg Broiles, Patrick Byrne, Jan Camenisch, Arthur Chandler, Jim Choate, Igor Chudov, Bram Cohen, Nick Collision, Matt Corallo, Geoff Dale, Luke Dashjr, L.Detweiler, Whitfield Diffie, Ray Dillinger, Jamie Dinkelacker, James A. Donald, Dooglus, Barry Downey, Evan Duffield, Vincent Durham, Tony Eng, Dan Fabulich, Niels Ferguson, Paul Ferguson, Amos Fiat, Art Forz, Matthew Franklin, Patri Friedman, Curtis D. Frye, Tony Gallippi, Jeff Garzik, Matthew Gaylor, John Gilmore, David Gordon, James Orlin Grabbe, Ron Gross, Ashish Gulhati, Laszlo Hanyecz, Martin Hellman, Michael Hendrix, Eyal Hertzog, Robert A. Hettinga, Eric Hughes, Mike Ingle, David Irvine, Douglas Jackson, Victor K., Jeff Kane, Mark Karpeles, Sunny King, Steve Klingsporn, Con Kolivas,  Dave Krieger, Nick Lambert, Matthew B. Landry, Laurie Law, Charles/Charlie Lee, Vili Lehdonvirta, Hendrik Lenstra, Romana Machado, Michael Marquardt, Yossi Matias, Gregory/Greg Maxwell, Timothy C. May, Jed McCaleb, Stanton McCandlish, James McCarthy, Jim McCoy, Alfred J. Menezes, Perry E. Metzger, Jude Milhon, Max More, David Naccache, Daniel A. Nagy, Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, Moni Naor, Satoshi Obana, Kazuo Ohta, Donald O'Mahony, Jackson Palmer, Torben Pedersen, Michael Peirce, Jean-Marc Piveteau, Naval Ravikant, Ben Reeves, Ron Rivest, Meni Rosenfeld, Nikolay Rozhok, Gary Rowe, Susan Sabett, Mayank Sahu, Steve Schear, Andreas Schildbach, Nils Schneider, Berry Schoenmakers, Adi Shamir, Carol Shaw, Charlie Shrem, Barry Silbert, Jerry Solinas, Markus Stadler, Bill Stewart, Patrick Strateman, Aaron Swartz, Amir Taaki, Yael Tauman, Hitesh Tewari, Will Thomas, Peter Todd, Zhou Tong, Dustin D. Trammell, Patrick P. Tsang,  Wladimir J. van der Laan, Thomas Vartanian, Roger Ver, Paul Vernon, Sebastiaan von Solms, Erik Voorhees, Michael Weber, Russell E. Whitaker, Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, Peter Wuille, Moti Yung, Phil Zimmerman, Haibin Zhang, Theymos, Marti Malmi , Hal Finney #1 , #2 ' Nick Szabo #1, #2, #3,Mike Hearn,Michael Clear,Dave Kleiman,Not Wright or Kleiman (good post), Craig Steven Wright #1, #2,Ross Ulbricht, Julian Assange,Wei Dai, Ben Laurie, Nick Szabo, Adam Back, Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki,#1, #2


Craig Steven Wright lawsuit by Dave Kleiman Estate
https://www.scribd.com/document/372445546/Bitcoin-Lawsuit (external link)

Private key for the GENESIS block hidden in these equations?



IBM, DARPA, Google

FBI, CIA, NSA, MI5, FSB, Mossad

YOU ?

Articles involving writing analysis:
Bootstrapped Gavin: Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity revealed!
Research on Satoshi Nakamoto identity

Forbes journalist, Andy Greenberg discovered that a man by the name of Dorian Nakamoto, (born Satoshi) was living only a few blocks from Hal Finney. (The man who received the first bitcoin transaction)



https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=769004.0 Dorian Nakamoto and Hal Finney



The impact was so adverse on Dorian Nakamoto that Andreas Antonopoulos ran a fundraiser for him.
Check fundraising address here: https://blockchain.info/address/1Dorian4RoXcnBv9hnQ4Y2C1an6NJ4UrjX  (Given to him in March 2014)

 Most comprehensive list of suspects.

Conspiracies:

Conspiracy theories
Gavin Andreson and the CIA killed Satoshi
Satoshi is an AI robot

Frauds:

a fake Satoshi replied
another fake Satoshi
"Satoshis spokesperson" -Miss Roselyn Hamilton
Craig Wright “Mr Fake”
Convicted fraudster Ronald Keala Kua Maria
Satoshi is writing a book
Paper: Duality: An excerpt

There is a theory that the name is made up of common industrial companies.



SA            TOSHi  NAKA        MOTO
Samsung Toshiba Nakamichi Motorola

If Satoshi Nakamoto wanted to be known by another identity it is up to him or her to make that move. It is clear from the writing that they were deeply concerned about privacy.

Here are the writings of the real Satoshi



https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/229qvr/happy_birthday_satoshi_nakamoto/


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775174.0

The current most popular theory:

Satoshi Nakamotos' current github is showing a photo of Dave Kleiman
https://github.com/satoshinnakamoto




https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/05/02/2160632/oh-my-craig-wrights-keys-of-revelation/

This in combination to the claims made in the Dave Kleiman Estate lawsuit against Craig Wright makes Dave Kleiman the current most plausible suspect.

Craig Wright filed a motion to dismiss

But I'm still skeptical of the claim because it is reliant on Craig Wrights testimony. In my opinion he has a $54 million reason to lie.

Adresses debunked: https://blog.wizsec.jp/2018/02/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoins.html

Has Craig Wright Committed Perjury? https://hackernoon.com/has-craig-wright-committed-perjury-new-information-in-the-kleiman-case-cbaaf2628e93

Wright claimed AU$54 million in tax rebates for R&D in 2014/15. That is a lot of motive for a hoax. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-australian-who-may-have-invented-bitcoin-claimed-to-have-landed-54m-in-taxpayer-funded-rebates-2015-12

Wrights own mother claims he has a habit of lying: http://archive.is/kjuLi#selection-1655.0-1655.94

Craig Wrights MtGox account also is not that of a "whale" https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hx3q9/according_to_the_mtgox_leaks_from_early_2014_our/

Wright also claimed to have a  PhD in computer science with Sydney's Charles Sturt University (CSU). But the university denied ever handing him a Phd.

Cybersecurity firm Wizsec dismisses the Wright claims on which the Kleiman lawsuit is based as "fantasy" https://blog.wizsec.jp/2018/02/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoins.html

My conclusion:

I rather not know. I think the mystery makes it more intriguing. Some legends are better as legends. Like Merlin and Robin Hood.

Further reading:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/the-crypto-currency

Re: Satoshi is Back, suggests Fortune
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4575874.msg41411073#msg41411073

Satoshis missing posts  -Theymos (also quoted below)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56272.msg669898#msg669898




This is a work in progress, corrections and additions are welcome.  
Sources: UsernameBitcoin, AGD,  BitcoinFX

Two publications brought electronic encryption into the public domain. (EDITED)
(The application of cryptography to computer data.)
The US government publication of the Data Encryption Standard and
Dr Whitfield Diffie and Dr Martin Hellmans public-key cryptography, "New Directions in Cryptography"

Prior to this electronic encryption was developed mainly by the military - in secret.
A lot of millitary research and early computer development revolved around the coding and code-breaking of war messages.
i.e. Arthur Scherbius' Enigma electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines and Alan Turing who worked at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, (Britain's codebreaking centre) who created the "Turing machine"  (A mathematical model of computation).

In the 1980s, Dr David Chaum wrote extensively on topics such as anonymous digital cash and pseudonymous reputation systems, which he described in his paper "Security without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete".

In late 1992, Eric Hughes, Timothy C May, and John Gilmore founded a small group.  At one of the first meetings, Jude Milhon (a hacker and author better known by her pseudonym St. Jude) described the group as the “Cypherpunks”.


The Cypherpunks mailing list was formed at about the same time, and just a few months later, Eric Hughes published "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto".


The Cypherpunks mailing list was started in 1992, and by 1994 had 700 subscribers

Some notable Cypherpunks and their achievements:

Jacob Appelbaum: Tor developer
Julian Assange: Founder of WikiLeaks
Dr Adam Back: Inventor of Hashcash, co-founder of Blockstream
Wei Dai : creator of B-money
Bram Cohen: Creator of BitTorrent
Philip Zimmermann: Creator of PGP 1.0
Hal Finney: Main author of PGP 2.0, creator of Reusable Proof of Work
Tim Hudson: Co-author of SSLeay, the precursor to OpenSSL
Paul Kocher: Co-author of SSL 3.0
Moxie Marlinspike: Founder of Open Whisper Systems (developer of Signal)
Steven Schear: Creator of the concept of the "warrant canary"
Bruce Schneier: Well-known security author
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn: DigiCash developer, Founder of Zcash
Dr Pieter Wuille: authored BIP32, hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets, which makes it much simpler for bitcoin wallets to manage addresses.
Peter Todd:  Stealth Addresses
Justus Ranvier:  BIP47
Justin Newton: BIP75 Out of Band Address Exchange
Gregory Maxwell: CoinJoin CoinSwap  
Chris Belcher: JoinMarket

In 1997, Dr Adam Back created Hashcash, which was designed as an anti-spam mechanism that would add time and computational cost to sending email, thus making spam uneconomical.

Later in 1998, Wei Dai published a proposal for "b-money", a practical way to enforce contractual agreements between anonymous parties.

In 2004, Hal Finney  created reusable proof of work (RPOW), which built on Back's Hashcash.

Bitcoin uses the Hashcash “proof of work (POW)” concept while quite a few other cryptocurrencies have implemented a variant known as "proof of stake" (POS).

Nick Szabo published a proposal for "bit gold" in 2005 – a digital collectible that built upon Finney's RPOW proposal.

Finally, in 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym for a still-unidentified individual or individuals, published the bitcoin whitepaper, citing both hashcash and b-money.  Satoshi emailed Wei Dai directly and mentioned that he learned about b-money from Dr Back.

Cypherpunks are pro open-source
Cypherpunks Anti-License (CPL)
The CPL is written from a mindset which derides the very concept of Intellectual Property restrictions as being incompatible with a free society.


Sources:
https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/who-are-the-cypherpunks/
https://medium.com/swlh/the-untold-history-of-bitcoin-enter-the-cypherpunks-f764dee962a1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk
https://blockonomi.com/cryptography-cypherpunks/
https://itsblockchain.com/cypherpunk/
https://www.coindesk.com/the-rise-of-the-cypherpunks/

Further reading:
http://projects.csmonitor.com/cypherpunk

This is a work in progress - I intend to edit it to include more links and information. Corrections, additions and comments are welcomed.

Contributions:
paxmao  amishmanish

Привет. Yes- someone pointed out your thread Legendary profiles of bitcointalk. to me after I made this one

Your post features and details particular people while my post is more like a treasure hunt through bitcointalk history. There are certainly some interesting characters on here.

My inspiration for the post came from bitcoin pizza day (22 May)


It would definitely be interesting to find out what happened to some of the early pioneers. I noticed that a lot of the early posts were discussions about coding and technical aspects. I imagine that these sort of discussions are still taking place but in a much less public setting.
Some of the early pioneers that I have spoken to have security concerns about being publicly identifiable and get more messages than they can cope with.
It would be great to chat with some of the early pioneers "off the record".



It took me about a day to sort through the events and find the relevant posts. I was reading about bitcoin pizza day and looked for it on bitcointalk. Then I started looking for more historic events and it struck me just how much history is on here. I'm only getting started on this post. This is the most enjoyable thing I've done on bitcointalk.

EDIT: I've been working on this for days now. There is so much cool info.

So many bitcoins stolen in the early hacks.I wonder how many were "cashed out" and how many are still "dormant".

I found it interesting to see Mark Karpeles was providing the hosting for Bitcointalk. I'm looking for when the hosting changed after the MtGox collapse.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/chinese-prosecutors-charge-final-suspects-in-23-bln-onecoin-investigation Chinese prosecution
https://news.bitcoin.com/onecoin-offices-raided-in-sofia-servers-shut-down/ Bulgarian servers shut down
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/alleged-pyramid-scheme-onecoin-faces-11911858 UK prosecution
https://www.coindesk.com/german-prosecutors-join-onecoin-investigations/ German prosecution
https://cointelegraph.com/news/one-coin-much-scam-italy-brands-onecoin-ponzi-issues-25-mln-fine Italian prosecution
https://coingape.com/onecoin-scam-samoan-central-bank-launches-investigations/ Samoan investigation


Further reading:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2650165.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2438229.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1920480.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2963322.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1920480.0

Thank you for that. That post definitely belongs on the list ! I've highlighted that post in red. Being an icon for being the first bitcoin recipient and contributor to the bitcoin protocol is increased by the knowledge that it was written using an eye-tracker while he was paralyzed from ALS.

Take Responsibility, Build Things, Be Kind & Share - is a great motto.


I've put the Cryptsy post on the timeline and included the other two in the additional information section.

Doing some of the research made me realize just how much we are surrounded by legends on this forum. Not just the ones that were phenomenally successful but also some that tried and failed with catastrophic results. Then there are those that scammed at the expense of others.

The problem with Wikileaks is that it draws the attention from the NSA and other organisations very keen to follow the trail of funding.

Privacy and anonymity is not 100% guaranteed and the increased surveillance is what made him disappear. I don't think he was in it for the $.

https://words.democracy.earth/follow-the-bitcoin-wikileaks-f2218dece347

It had the unfortunate effect of politicizing bitcoin. It may have led to more public exposure but also carried risks.

In July 2015, Wikileaks wallet was the target of what in Bitcoin lingo is called a “flood attack” or “dust attack”. The amount of dust for this huge attack was worth 30 BTC (or U$D 8,000 at the time).

It demonstrates the extend of what some people are prepared to do.