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March 06, 2014, 01:02:47 PM |
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March 06, 2014, 01:06:36 PM |
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MatTheCat
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March 06, 2014, 01:07:10 PM |
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Erm... It is an American magazine, but do Newsweek not have a reputation for writing bullshit stories that nobody is meant to believe is real? with headlines like Hitler was transvestite from Mars, or Freddie Starr ate my Hamster (from a UK equivalent junk tabloid) Edit: Although this lines right up with my own personal conspiracy theory on Bitcoin: the trail followed by Newsweek led to a 64-year-old Japanese-American man whose name really is Satoshi Nakamoto. He is someone with a penchant for collecting model trains and a career shrouded in secrecy, having done classified work for major corporations and the U.S. military. Twas an NSA project all along and now they control it.
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March 06, 2014, 01:08:35 PM |
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Despite the lack of proper evidence, my feeling is yes it is for real.
And that makes Newsweek pretty low for putting this man's life in danger.
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March 06, 2014, 01:09:05 PM |
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Erm... It is an American magazine, but do Newsweek not have a reputation for writing bullshit stories that nobody is meant to believe is real? with headlines like Hitler was transvestite from Mars, or Freddie Starr ate my Hamster (from a UK equivalent junk tabloid) You're thinking of the Enquirer.
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MatTheCat
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March 06, 2014, 01:12:59 PM |
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You're thinking of the Enquirer.
Holy shit. Yeah, you are right. In that case, it could be true, and I would draw everyone's attention to this extract from the article: the trail followed by Newsweek led to a 64-year-old Japanese-American man whose name really is Satoshi Nakamoto. He is someone with a penchant for collecting model trains and a career shrouded in secrecy, having done classified work for major corporations and the U.S. military. Been saying it for months. Bitcoin aint against The Man, it came from The Man.
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March 06, 2014, 01:14:15 PM |
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You're thinking of the Enquirer.
Holy shit. Yeah, you are right. In that case, it could be true, and I would draw everyone's attention to this extract from the article: the trail followed by Newsweek led to a 64-year-old Japanese-American man whose name really is Satoshi Nakamoto. He is someone with a penchant for collecting model trains and a career shrouded in secrecy, having done classified work for major corporations and the U.S. military. Been saying it for months. Bitcoin aint against The Man, it came from The Man. Heh - I've just been saying in the wall thread that there's enough in that article to fuel the fires for conspiracy theorists.
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WompRat (OP)
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March 06, 2014, 01:15:12 PM |
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He is going to come under immense pressure from his family now to spend the coins, if only so they can go into hiding.
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March 06, 2014, 01:15:29 PM |
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My favorite comment about the article: This piece is better suited to TMZ. Then again, they might have rejected it for ethical reasons.
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March 06, 2014, 01:16:31 PM |
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Could we get this thread deleted.
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Look inside yourself, and you will see that you are the bubble.
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March 06, 2014, 01:19:01 PM |
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Could we get this thread deleted.
Why?
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March 06, 2014, 01:19:32 PM |
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You want to delete this thread, all the threads that are already on this subject and all the threads that will be written on this subject from now on?
You also have to get Newsweek to delete the article - but it has already been pasted many places so that would not do any good anyway.
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March 06, 2014, 01:20:29 PM |
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Could be him, I guess. The description, slightly nutty, but brilliant anti-government private researcher certainly fits.
But that's hardly enough evidence. Reading the article it sounds to me the evidence that it's him is basically that the writer of the article says "he implicitly admitted to be the creator of Bitcoin"... Is that sufficient evidence in your eyes?
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March 06, 2014, 01:23:11 PM |
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A newsweek thread? Probably no. Could we get this thread deleted.
Only to have 5 others appear?
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MatTheCat
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March 06, 2014, 01:23:16 PM |
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Heh - I've just been saying in the wall thread that there's enough in that article to fuel the fires for conspiracy theorists.
At what point does conspiracy theory become more like common sense and the orthodox accepted version of events sound like bullshit? i.e. Who is more likely to have created Bitcoin. A team of high salaried life long committed cryptology professionals, pooled together under one roof with access to, for all intents and purposes, unlimited resources? A lone hacker geek sitting in some Japanese attic with his Manga collection?
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March 06, 2014, 01:25:47 PM |
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Could be him, I guess. The description, slightly nutty, but brilliant anti-government private researcher certainly fits.
But that's hardly enough evidence. Reading the article it sounds to me the evidence that it's him is basically that the writer of the article says "he implicitly admitted to be the creator of Bitcoin"... Is that sufficient evidence in your eyes?
Personally, I think it's flimsy grounds to run such as potentially harmful (to the subject) article. But overall, I'm inclined to believe she might have found the real deal. (Having said that, I once worked with a journo who ran an 'anonymous street artist Banksy unmasked!' interview only to find that he'd been pranked. Turns out Banksy actually isn't actually a forty-year-old housewife with some crayons.)
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March 06, 2014, 01:25:54 PM |
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Could be him, I guess. The description, slightly nutty, but brilliant anti-government private researcher certainly fits.
But that's hardly enough evidence. Reading the article it sounds to me the evidence that it's him is basically that the writer of the article says "he implicitly admitted to be the creator of Bitcoin"... Is that sufficient evidence in your eyes?
And what about the name? Someone who cares so much about privacy uses his real name on the internet? Sounds unbelievable to me.
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March 06, 2014, 01:28:08 PM |
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This is all pretty surreal.
So the man that thousands of people have been searching for years was using his, er, real name the whole time?
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March 06, 2014, 01:28:27 PM |
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Could we get this thread deleted.
Why? Didn't even click the link before posting that. Didn't need to. Having read it now, I second my motion to get rid of this thread. It doesn't matter if that's the guy. If it isn't, someone is going to get harassed just for having the name he has. If it is, we all owe him. And as for the article itself, he should turn it into a book and sell it. It's certainly long enough and with the right Dan Brown style to make it big. Also invasion of privacy. Something at least some of us are pretty big on, yes?
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Look inside yourself, and you will see that you are the bubble.
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WompRat (OP)
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March 06, 2014, 01:29:37 PM |
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A lone hacker geek sitting in some Japanese attic with his Manga collection?
He is not a Manga geek , he is a model train geek.
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