Did Satoshi Nakamoto join GitHub?

[cloutiertyler]

I'm confused. Did Satoshi Nakamoto join GitHub two days ago?

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors?from=2009-08-30&to=2010-12-31&type=c
https://github.com/satoshinnakamoto

How does this make any sense?

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[achow101]

No, Satoshi did not join Github 2 days ago. In fact, Satoshi does not have a Github account (at least associated with the name Satoshi Nakamoto) and he never used Github. The move to Github happened after Satoshi left.

This account appears to have falsely taken attribution for some of Satoshi's commits. This occurs because any Github account can add any email that they want to the Github account and Github will show any commits with that email as belonging to that account, even if the email is unverified. We normally keep the emails of Satoshi, sirius, and laszloh under this account: https://github.com/non-github-bitcoin. However I didn't notice that the satoshin@gmx.com email was used before in the commit history, so someone has claimed that as theirs with a different Github account. I'm currently talking to Github about this and hopefully it will be resolved soon.

[cloutiertyler]

Ahhh, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the detailed clarification!

[cloud.runner]

I think it's just a fake account. Base on the commit history here[https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commits/master], satoshi did not use Github to develop Bitcoin.

[vit05]

No, Satoshi did not join Github 2 days ago. In fact, Satoshi does not have a Github account (at least associated with the name Satoshi Nakamoto) and he never used Github. The move to Github happened after Satoshi left.

This account appears to have falsely taken attribution for some of Satoshi's commits. This occurs because any Github account can add any email that they want to the Github account and Github will show any commits with that email as belonging to that account, even if the email is unverified. We normally keep the emails of Satoshi, sirius, and laszloh under this account: https://github.com/non-github-bitcoin. However I didn't notice that the satoshin@gmx.com email was used before in the commit history, so someone has claimed that as theirs with a different Github account. I'm currently talking to Github about this and hopefully it will be resolved soon.

This is an unbelievable github flaw. And that shows how signature verification systems are essential nowadays. PGP etc. If the answer was not quick, something like this could have a significant impact on the market.

[achow101]

This is an unbelievable github flaw. And that shows how signature verification systems are essential nowadays. PGP etc. If the answer was not quick, something like this could have a significant impact on the market.

The account itself doesn't really have any effect on anything except some visual things on Github. Even so, it is better for us to have accounts that claim these emails to prevent impersonators from trying to do anything malicious.

[Kakmakr]

In November 2008, a paper titled " Bitcoin : A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was posted on a Cryptography mailing list. <Not Github> Most of the early support came from the Cypherpunk community.

I think Github was launched in 2008, but people in the Cypherpunk community would not have operated in that kind of environment for Crypto currency related stuff. < Reason : Many people were arrested for creating their own currency >

Bitcoin was a bit of a cloak and dagger kind of technology back then. ^smile^