Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto?

[wtfvanity]

PG, do you search every topic out individually, or do you stumble on this while searching other topics? What happens when Satoshi messages you and asks you to stop? Do you or have you found the truth for all?

[jeannie]

I think we can stop the guessing, if Satoshi doesn't come out to prove himself, our guesses will also be guesses.

[Este Nuno]

PG, do you search every topic out individually, or do you stumble on this while searching other topics? What happens when Satoshi messages you and asks you to stop? Do you or have you found the truth for all?

Interesting question. I'd like to know too what you would do if Satoshi asked you to stop your epic hunt for his identity.

[jackjack]

PG, do you search every topic out individually, or do you stumble on this while searching other topics? What happens when Satoshi messages you and asks you to stop? Do you or have you found the truth for all?

Interesting question. I'd like to know too what you would do if Satoshi asked you to stop your epic hunt for his identity.

I highly doubt he would do that. He knows that it would mean PG is on the right track.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Dear PG,

I'm not Satoshi Nakamoto, but if I were, I wouldn't tell you. But he is in touch with me (I'm not Gavin, either) and has asked me to beg of you to stop pursuing me...I mean him. I'm sure there's probably some compensation in for you, therefore don't be afraid to name some price.

Sincerely,

not Satoshi Nakamoto

Dear not Satoshi Nakamoto,

I'll stop for a goat.

Regards,

PG

[Este Nuno]

I'll stop for a goat.

I think your out of luck on this one. I believe he is happily married.

Any other forum members you long for?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I'll stop for a goat.

I think your out of luck on this one. I believe he is happily married.

Any other forum members you long for?

Maria.

[Este Nuno]

I'll stop for a goat.

I think your out of luck on this one. I believe he is happily married.

Any other forum members you long for?

Maria.

[rezurect]

In certain posts Satoshi uses British style spelling (ie, “optimisation”) but in others, he chooses American style (ie, “criticized”).
 
au.linkedin.com/in/agulhati
The Indian educational system follows British spellings (being a former British colony) Ashish pursued his bachelors degree in english in India, Delhi Vishwavidyalaya, B.A., English Literature (1993 – 1996).
He also studied in the US, Willamette University (1991 – 1992) and Swinburne University of Technology MIT, IT (2009 – 2010).

Such a person could use British and American English interchangeably without even knowing it.
Its should be a fairly common trait among Indians who have their education/work split between India and US.

My drop in this sea of speculation.

Edit:Being a non-native English speaker, I use British spellings everywhere except the internet, where at times depending on the forum and the audience i deliberately use American spellings, the internet has weird influences. Its a choice non-native English speakers enjoy. For a person with an educational background spanning both sides of the hemisphere, interchanging spellings and styles should be natural.

I know I've been criticized for being reluctant about listtransactions.  Let me explain my reluctance.

- Jgarzik's optimisation to speed up the initial block download a little

Indian Spelling: India's Apollo Tyres to buy US based Cooper Tire for $2.5 billion
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/12/us-cooper-apollo-takeover-idUSBRE95B0H820130612

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Satoshi uses British-style spelling (ie, “optimisation”) but in others, he chooses US style (ie, “criticized”).
 
au.linkedin.com/in/agulhati
The Indian educational system follows British spellings (being a former British colony) Ashish pursued his bachelors degree in english in India, Delhi Vishwavidyalaya, B.A., English Literature (1993 – 1996).
He also studied in the US, Willamette University (1991 – 1992) and Swinburne University of Technology MIT, IT (2009 – 2010).

Such a person could use British and American English interchangeably without even knowing it.
Its should be a fairly common trait among Indians who have their education/work split between India and US.

My drop in this sea of speculation.

Exactly!

[Pkzone]

Crypt::PGP5 - An Object Oriented Interface to PGP5.

AUTHOR

Crypt::PGP5 is Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Ashish Gulhati <hash@netropolis.org>. All Rights Reserved.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Barkha for inspiration and lots of laughs; to Rex Rogers at Laissez Faire City for putting together a great environment to hack on freedom technologies; and of-course, to Phil Zimmerman, Larry Wall, Richard Stallman, and Linus Torvalds.

Phil Zimmerman, Larry Wall, Richard Stallman, and Linus Torvalds = et al. (?)

Rex Rogers (among other nyms) = James Ray Houston, Sonny Vleisides' (BFL) dad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashish_Gulhati

In 1999, he was involved with Laissez Faire City, where he developed Laissez Faire City's OpenPGP compatible messaging engine, and also deployed secure wireless links for Laissez Faire City's consultate in Costa Rica.
Since 2000, he has been actively involved in various security and privacy related efforts

http://www.hashcash.org/source/CHANGELOG

update everything to point at http://www.hashcash.org now we
     have the domain courtesy of it's previous owner Ashish
     Gulhati <agul@cpan.org> (at no charge -- he declined my
     offer to pay for it and instead gave it to me!)

Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure

Adam Back

e-mail: adam@cypherspace.org
1st August 2002

Abstract

Hashcash was originally proposed as a mechanism to throttle systematic abuse of un-metered internet resources
such as email, and anonymous remailers in May 1997. Five years on, this paper captures in one place the various
applications, improvements suggested and related subsequent publications, and describes initial experience from
experiments using hashcash.

The hashcash CPU cost-function computes a token which can be used as a proof-of-work. Interactive and noninteractive variants of cost-functions can be constructed which can be used in situations where the server can issue
a challenge (connection oriented interactive protocol), and where it can not (where the communication is store–and–
forward, or packet oriented) respectively.

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully
peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.

The paper is available at:
[url]http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf[/url]

The main properties:
 Double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer network.
 No mint or other trusted parties.
 Participants can be anonymous.
 New coins are made from Hashcash style proof-of-work.
 The proof-of-work for new coin generation also powers the
    network to prevent double-spending.

Satoshi Nakamoto Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:16:33 -0700[/url]

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

References
[1] W. Dai, "b-money," http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt, 1998.
[2] H. Massias, X.S. Avila, and J.-J. Quisquater, "Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal
trust requirements," In 20th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, May 1999.
[3] S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "How to time-stamp a digital document," In Journal of Cryptology, vol 3, no
2, pages 99-111, 1991.
[4] D. Bayer, S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Improving the efficiency and reliability of digital time-stamping,"
In Sequences II: Methods in Communication, Security and Computer Science, pages 329-334, 1993.
[5] S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Secure names for bit-strings," In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference
on Computer and Communications Security, pages 28-35, April 1997.

[6] A. Back, "Hashcash - a denial of service counter-measure,"
http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf, 2002.

[7] R.C. Merkle, "Protocols for public key cryptosystems," In Proc. 1980 Symposium on Security and
Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, pages 122-133, April 1980.
[8] W. Feller, "An introduction to probability theory and its applications," 1957.

http://search.overdrive.com/ti/0cfe248a-fd79-4397-99a3-44b2d0686bf4-410-1-1-1-1/beautiful-code-andy-oram-greg-wilson-ebook

This book contains 33 chapters contributed by Brian Kernighan, Karl Fogel, Jon Bentley, Tim Bray, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Michael Feathers, Alberto Savoia, Charles Petzold, Douglas Crockford, Henry S. Warren, Jr., Ashish Gulhati, Lincoln Stein, Jim Kent, Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek, Adam Kolawa, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Diomidis Spinellis, Andrew Kuchling, Travis E. Oliphant, Ronald Mak, Rogerio Atem de Carvalho and Rafael Monnerat, Bryan Cantrill, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Simon Peyton Jones, Kent Dybvig, William Otte and Douglas C. Schmidt, Andrew Patzer, Andreas Zeller, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Arun Mehta, TV Raman, Laura Wingerd and Christopher Seiwald, and Brian Hayes.

Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell their story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty International.

http://thefree.in/

FREE was created in July 1994 by Ashish Gulhati, Dr. Arun Mehta and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh as an online forum dedicated to protecting and enhancing fundamental human rights in the electronic domain, and representing the interests of the electronic community in India.

http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/

<follow the link to read the following in its original format>

My company, Netropolis Technologies, provides consultancy, training and software for Internetworking applications.

Netropolis

Netropolis is an Extensible, Transparent, Reliable, Open, and Powerful On Line Interaction System. Well, it may not be all of that yet, but it sure makes for an impressive acronym. More details once I have a beta version ready.

Greet Network

At Greet Network, arguably the niftiest greeting card site on the Web, you can create a web page with custom artwork to convey your good wishes on a variety of special occasions. For only $4.95, you get a URL for your greeting that lasts for a month, and is completely mainainable through a web interface. I'm adding artwork and more nifty features to this site on a continuous basis.

Web Architecture

I think of website development as a form of architecture - the organization of virtual spaces, the functionality of the plan, the navigation paths, and the consistency of static and dynamic design are all-important to me. I've honed my skills at web architecture as the co-ordinator of Webware services at Silver Leaf Software, as the online editor of Connect Magazine, and through my own ventures.

Technical Journalism

I used to write a monthly column called Cyberpunk for India's largest selling and fastest growing computer magazine - PC Quest. Here are electronic versions of some of my articles for PC Quest and other Indian computer magazines.

Looking For Work

I will undertake interesting and/or specialized HTML and Perl hacking on a freelance basis in order to make some money in a hard currency ;-) I'm also looking for a job in Las Vegas. Employer should be willing and able to arrange an immigration visa. In exchange, I'll work cheap. Here's my resumé.

I'm 22 years old, 5'10" tall, have long curly hair, dark eyes, pointed ears and an IQ of 180, according to those bright folks at Mensa. I'm always juggling some mad amount of activities and in the middle of reading an even madder number of books. I know what it sounds like, but it isn't ADD - thank God for small mercies.

Education

Having found much of my own formal education a tedious and boring process, bordering on the intolerable, I'm very interested in innovative educational techniques. Here you'll find some essays on education that I've written and some pointers to interesting education related sites.

India

Well, it's my country. Here's my constantly evolving web-project to present a rather different perspective on "the gritty, sexy, real India", to borrow a wonderful phrase from Karl Taro Greenfeld.

PGP Public Key

Mail to me in India is easily and routinely read by sysadmins at the government-owned service provider. If you can, use PGP when mailing me.
 
PERL, I like to insist, stands for Perl-Emacs-Rand-Linux, the four things I'm most passionate about. So here are my pages on these modern-day wonders. (Most pages are still under construction. Should be up 'soonish' ;-).

Perl

Larry Wall's interpreted systems language, Perl, features a potent mix of the best 'magic beads' from languages of the past, a very tight economy of expression, zero bureaucratic baggage, and more than one way to do anything. It's now object oriented, extensible, embeddable, and better than ever.

Emacs

Richard Stallman's full-screen, extensible, customizable, self-documenting editor with a built-in lisp system. 'Nuff said. This beast is the greatest boon to efficiency since the roller ball bearing, and it runs on practically any platform.

Rand

IMHO, Ayn Rand was this century's most profound thinker and the greatest literary artist of all time. Her portrayal of man as an independent, efficacious, rational being is worth experiencing, no matter which side you take in the violent controversy that surrounds her and her works.

Linux

The Operating System "of the people, for the people, by the people", Linux is a veritable revolution in free software. Having used and reviewed practically every desktop OS in common use, I found that Linux is simply the coolest way to run your computer. It's my OS of choice and I'm an outspoken Linux advocate in India.

http://web.archive.org/web/19970227011758/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/

Name: Ashish Gulhati
DoB: 16 October 1973
Address: 140 Sunder Nagar, New Delhi-3, India
Phone: +91 11 4615433
Fax: +91 11 4601978
E-Mail: hash@netropolis.or

<Please, Jehovah, don't tell me it's the same day BFL was planning to ship!>

Satoshi Nakamoto will be 40 years old this year. How's on the birthday party committee?

Also from his resume:

With this foray into electronic commerce, I developed a sense of the economics of the Internet, and measured the revenue-generation potential of the Web as marketplace. Encouraged by my initial discoveries, I am going to focus most of my energies on this activity for the foreseeable future.

Since September 1997, I have been developing and maintaining the website of The American Reporter, mostly gratis, motivated by the unique nature of the publication and its role in the defeat of the Communications Decency Act.

Surely does explain why Satoshi's fond of the word Karma.

I did my part. Feel free to now punch holes in my theory or verify what I've presented.

Hmm, I would compare Satoshi's sleeping and writing times to a typical Indian's
I think it could be true.
:O :O :O