New York Times identifies Nick Szabo as Satoshi Nakamoto

[HI-TEC99]

What's the backstory on the image above?

Who matched the names to the faces? Anyone with basic Photoshop skills could put any name they want next to any face they want. What event was that photo from?

[Gleb Gamow]

What's the backstory on the image above?

Who matched the names to the faces? Anyone with basic Photoshop skills could put any name they want next to any face they want. What event was that photo from?

That's what I'm asking. All the names with faces match their well-known profiles, with Nick being the wildcard.

[redsn0w]

What's the backstory on the image above?

Who matched the names to the faces? Anyone with basic Photoshop skills could put any name they want next to any face they want. What event was that photo from?

That's what I'm asking. All the names with faces match their well-known profiles, with Nick being the wildcard.

We should ask someone present in that photo , like Gavin or Gmaxwell (both theme are registered here) and I think this is the unique way to fine more info about that image....

[remotemass]

Why not asking the author of the photo?

[Bitware]

It really does not matter who Satoshi Nakamotoa is, so long as the technology is sound.

[monsanto]

It really does not matter who Satoshi Nakamotoa is, so long as the technology is sound.

He's the single largest hodler. Kinda matters.

[HI-TEC99]

It really does not matter who Satoshi Nakamotoa is, so long as the technology is sound.

He's the single largest hodler. Kinda matters.

If he dumps he could crash the price down to single digits, that kinda matters. He's given no indication that he will ever sell, but it's always a slim possibility as long as he's holding his million coins. Further, those coins might be dumped if anyone ever figures out who he is and steals them from him.

[Gleb Gamow]

It really does not matter who Satoshi Nakamotoa is, so long as the technology is sound.

He's the single largest hodler. Kinda matters.

If he dumps he could crash the price down to single digits, that kinda matters. He's given no indication that he will ever sell, but it's always a slim possibility as long as he's holding his million coins. Further, those coins might be dumped if anyone ever figures out who he is and steals them from him.

Why dump a million coins all at once that'd crash the price when one could easily liquidate 25 BTC every ten millions equating to cashin' out within a year's time?

[TheLittleDuke]

If I had guess, I'd say it has all the hallmarks of In-Q-Tel...

That said...I still think it's Hal Finney

[QuestionAuthority]

If I had guess, I'd say it has all the hallmarks of In-Q-Tel...

That said...I still think it's Hal Finney

I think it's Finney too. Szabo looks like a gas station attendant.

[Gleb Gamow]

If I had guess, I'd say it has all the hallmarks of In-Q-Tel...

That said...I still think it's Hal Finney

I think it's Finney too. Szabo looks like a gas station attendant.

You sure you wanna leave Nash outta the equation?

To: jamie@netcom.com (Jamie Dinkelacker)
Subject: Re: on anonymity, identity, reputation, and spoofing
From: szabo@netcom.com (Nick Szabo)

Another big problem I see with pseudonymous reputations
is entry.  If most people are blocking posts from new pseudonyms, how
does one get a new reputation established?   I've had several years
to establish a net.reputation for "Nick Szabo", and it
might take a long time for any of my pseudonyms to catch up.  
Altruistic sponsorship requires trusted friends knowing
the True Name, but that public sponsorship itself provides
important clues pointing to that Name.  Sponsorship by the True Name via
an anonymous reputation market (like HEx, but securely anonymous and
perhaps tied to futures on the pseudonym's declared income), might
be quite useful.  (For information on the HEx market, send
mail to hex@sea.east.sun.com with the subject line "commands").

Hex is a strategy board game played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes, but traditionally as an 11×11 rhombus. Other popular dimensions are 13×13 and 19×19 as a result of the game's relationship to the older game of Go. According to the book A Beautiful Mind, John Nash (one of the game's inventors) advocated 14×14 as the optimal size.

[Gleb Gamow]

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1994/01/msg00192.html

Mr. May makes long reference to my postings on the Cypherpunks list,
characterizing them all as a sort of bag of ad hominem insults and
rants. I stand by everything I have ever posted to the Cypherpunks
list, contrary to T.C.May, who is deathly terrified that anyone outside
his little inbred fiefdom should stumble on his rants about how all Law
Enforcement and Governments are inherently Evil, how Pornography is
Liberating, etc. These are just the rants that he says *publicly*.
Behind the scenes all three leaders, Gilmore, May, and Hughes, promote
much more subversive ideology and religion to their cult of fanatic
followers. `Lies are Liberating' etc. The media has been infected with
their distortions of their agenda of hiding criminal activities such as
tax evasion, black marketeering, money laundering, and the overthrow of
governments under the guise of `privacy for the masses' and `the
cryptographic revolution'.

Pennings like the above make me pine for https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=41159.

[HI-TEC99]

It really does not matter who Satoshi Nakamotoa is, so long as the technology is sound.

He's the single largest hodler. Kinda matters.

If he dumps he could crash the price down to single digits, that kinda matters. He's given no indication that he will ever sell, but it's always a slim possibility as long as he's holding his million coins. Further, those coins might be dumped if anyone ever figures out who he is and steals them from him.

Why dump a million coins all at once that'd crash the price when one could easily liquidate 25 BTC every ten millions equating to cashin' out within a year's time?

If someone had stolen them they might want to cash them out very quickly for whatever they could get. They might panic about Satosh alerting the police and want to disappear quickly with their ill gotten gains.

[crazyearner]

Why not asking the author of the photo?

Good question maybe the person who took the picture is satoshi everyone looking at. Who knows only time will say in this matter if the real satoshi will stand up and present himself in the future or not.

[HI-TEC99]

Why not asking the author of the photo?

Good question maybe the person who took the picture is satoshi everyone looking at. Who knows only time will say in this matter if the real satoshi will stand up and present himself in the future or not.

I was going to ask him, but the person who took the picture's twitter account shows he already tweeted that "Even Nick Szabo thinks that Nick Szabo is probably Satoshi Nakamoto".

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/599294356202336256

[ChetnotAtkins]

Maybe the devs will now speak about Nick Szabo. Peculiarly they never participated in discussions about Nick Szabo and this image proves that they not only know his real identity but also enjoy eating dinner with him.

I think a direct public approach on Reddit will be the best way to get Gavin, Peter and the others on this table to finally speak about Nick Szabo.

[crazyearner]

Maybe the devs will now speak about Nick Szabo. Peculiarly they never participated in discussions about Nick Szabo and this image proves that they not only know his real identity but also enjoy eating dinner with him.

I think a direct public approach on Reddit will be the best way to get Gavin, Peter and the others on this table to finally speak about Nick Szabo.

Maybe for them to get together once again and announce who he is or maybe its all of them who invented it and used a random name they all come up with to say its x person no one actually factored this in yet that  mr/mrs Satoshi Nakamoto could be all of them

[Gleb Gamow]

If I had guess, I'd say it has all the hallmarks of In-Q-Tel...

That said...I still think it's Hal Finney

I think it's Finney too. Szabo looks like a gas station attendant.

Would it surprise you to learn that Alcor North CA Cryonics used to meet at Nick's home?: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=4472

ref: http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1994/02/msg01429.html

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/extropian-roots-bitcoin/

Hal Finney, a Bitcoin pioneer and the first person to ever receive a Bitcoin transaction, was cryonically preserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation on August 28, 2014. Please don’t say to Hal friends that he “passed away” or worse – cryonics enthusiasts hope to be revived by future science, in a few decades or centuries down the stream of time.

All five of the following lived in the five-bedroom room (linked above).

Romana Machado - Geoff Dale - David Gordon - Nick Szabo - Russell Whitaker

You would think that five dudes would get bored of each others' company after a while, eh? Well, luckily for them, first on the list was the Housemistress: NSFW --> http://scanof.net/view_news.php?head=526503291

Ref: http://www.rdfrn.com/totse/en/privacy/encryption/stego.html

Stego and Cypherella
by Sandy Sandfort

STEGO & CYPHERELLA: A Cypherpunk Goddess Presents Us With Digital Fruit From Her Tree of Knowledge

Cypherella is an ace software developer who has unleashed a subversive program called Stego, a different kind of encryption software that works because snoops can't even tell that you are using encryption software.

How's it work? Let's say Slick Willie wants to hide his voluminous Little Black Book where no one can find it. If he puts it in an encrypted file on his White House personal computer, anybody who looks at the files on his hard disk can tell that he is trying to hide something, and by today's unfortunate "if you have something to hide, you must be guilty" standards he'd catch hell from the press. Enter Stego.

The Stego program uses steganography, a method of disguising messages within other media. What that means, in practical terms (so Prez can understand) is that he can camouflage his secret Little Black Book inside something innocuous: one of Hilary's Vogue pictures scanned into a Mac PICT file would do nicely.

Every picture stored on a computer is made up of pixels (picture elements). Depending on how many shades of gray or hues of color you want to have, a pixel can be expressed using 8, 16, 32 or even more bits. If the least significant bit is changed, the shade of the pixel is altered only one-256th, one-65,000th or even less. No human eye could tell the difference.

What Stego does, is hijack the least significant bit to store only one bit of a secret message or file. Because digitized pictures have lots of pixels, it's possible to store lots of data in a single picture.

But what if Hillary also has a copy of Stego? (She might want to hide her Little Black Book too, you know.) Bill could get busted. And then he'd really catch hell. Bill should first use a standard encryption program (like Phil Zimmerman's "Pretty Good Privacy") to encrypt his LBB before he Stegos the PICT file.

Pretty cool, huh? Bob Packwood would've paid thousands for it. But because Cypherella wants you to have Stego, she is offering it as shareware. You get it for free. If you like it, you can send her a registration fee of $15. For that you'll get her latest updates plus special features and other valuable goodies.

Software this great could only come from a wicked cool cypherpunk goddess like Cypherella. Also known as Romana Machado (and sometimes "Mistress" Romana, Katrina, or just plain Kate), she's an avid reader of science fiction, and has tried everything from ballet to Trekkie fandom; from drug research experimentation to medical research; from singing in baroque choral groups to posing for Playboy (November 1985). When she's not writing cunning encryption programs, she keeps herself busy as a software consultant, a model, and sometimes movie extra. She's designed and made black leather wrist braces to prevent or alleviate carpal tunnel syndrome.

It's only natural that she would eventually hook up with the Cypherpunks. This self-mockingly-named group vigorously promotes the use of strong encryption to preserve personal privacy and freedom. It includes some real hotshots in mathematics, cryptography and computer science. Yet only a dozen or so of the several hundred Cypherpunks have actually worked on cryptographic projects. Of those, only Cypherella's Stego and a small handful of others have actually been finished.

Stego was written for the Macintosh. PC and other versions may soon be available. To get your copy of Stego, you can FTP it from: sumex-aim.stanford.edu, in the info-mac/Recent directory as stego-10a2.hqx

[RitzBitzz]

This all seems very illuminati like with how they are having secret meeting without anyone knowing.

[crazyearner]

This all seems very illuminati like with how they are having secret meeting without anyone knowing.

Well wouldn't you if you had created a monster wanted to keep it private and anonymous and have people wondering after I sure as hell would want to keep my privacy until it was much bigger and mainstream. Even if was fully mainstream lot of people want to ask so many questions and in a way am sure wants to remain but again only time will tell if will announce where he is what he or she is doing and no doubt satoshi is reading among bitcointalk somewhere. Hello to you Miss or Sir