Nakamoto Found?

[kkaspar]

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.

I have also thought that maybe bitcoin was originally created to track and map a part of the black market. When cash is actually hard to track, then create a digital currency that is "safe and untraceable" for all kinds of illegal activities. Honeypots like these wouldn't be created to actually convict criminals, but to map their activity so you can create strategies according to that information. Same thing could be used to fund certain things that's funding needs to be more under the radar.
I don't know if "The Man" created bitcoin, but I know that they surely would have good use for it.

I might be wrong but big (..)organizations will not/never resort to BTC, they do pay in cash for those kinda services.
BTC is for individuals. so if the man is behind it then he is tracking you. which i'am still not 100% buying

I agree that big criminal organizations deal in more refined ways then BTC, but it's harder to track the little guys. You can track and map the dealings with HSBC, but with bitcoin, you could also map those who are lower in the food-chain. The more information you have, the better it is to plan your strategies.
Anyway, it's just a theory, but it makes sense to me.

[knightcoin]

I really prefer give attention to my own conspiracy theory ... witch is every time I type "satoshi" on search engine I get email from mit sloan/MFin ...

[seleme]

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.

Even if he got it wrong and used his real name on the beginning, after going underground he would surely change his name in last year or so.

[mgburks77]

http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html

Is this for real?

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.

told ya

[satosh007]

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.

I have also thought that maybe bitcoin was originally created to track and map a part of the black market. When cash is actually hard to track, then create a digital currency that is "safe and untraceable" for all kinds of illegal activities. Honeypots like these wouldn't be created to actually convict criminals, but to map their activity so you can create strategies according to that information. Same thing could be used to fund certain things that's funding needs to be more under the radar.
I don't know if "The Man" created bitcoin, but I know that they surely would have good use for it.

I might be wrong but big (..)organizations will not/never resort to BTC, they do pay in cash for those kinda services.
BTC is for individuals. so if the man is behind it then he is tracking you. which i'am still not 100% buying

I agree that big criminal organizations deal in more refined ways then BTC, but it's harder to track the little guys. You can track and map the dealings with HSBC, but with bitcoin, you could also map those who are lower in the food-chain. The more information you have, the better it is to plan your strategies.
Anyway, it's just a theory, but it makes sense to me.

so it's by design for the lower in the food chain aka you/any Joe

[zedicus]

/ thread

Dont we have a section for loser journalist here..

[kkaspar]

so it's by design for the lower in the food chain aka you/any Joe

If it is created for tracking and mapping then yeah.

[knightcoin]

... on that shit article (publishing home address, car license plate, etc... just makes me sick ... complete unethical ) the only thing ok ( invented or not) is the train thing ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtE54HpXBM

[juve4v]

http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html

Is this for real?

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.

told ya

Aye, I don't buy this bullshit made up story as well.  NSA' fucking social experiment all along....

[satosh007]

so it's by design for the lower in the food chain aka you/any Joe

If it is created for tracking and mapping then yeah.

even if it was like you say by design,
unless all exchanges, trade platforms, mixers are under the triangle eye (plus new alts starting with litecoin - they where not in the plan) that isn't 100% accurately possible. but it might give broader view for the overall analysis also considering the limitation of purchasable goods through the process.

[RodeoX]

So Satoshi Nakamoto's real identity is... Satoshi Nakamoto.

[knightcoin]

So Satoshi Nakamoto's real identity is... Satoshi Nakamoto.

sounds like ...

Wrongfully Accused Leslie Nielsen in scene Login Password
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDCL8c_oii8

[mgburks77]

http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html

Is this for real?

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.

told ya

Aye, I don't buy this bullshit made up story as well.  NSA' fucking social experiment all along....

It's not a social experiment.

It's economic warfare

[kkaspar]

so it's by design for the lower in the food chain aka you/any Joe

If it is created for tracking and mapping then yeah.

even if it was like you say by design,
unless all exchanges, trade platforms, mixers are under the triangle eye (plus new alts starting with litecoin - they where not in the plan) that isn't 100% accurately possible. but it might give broader view for the overall analysis also considering the limitation of purchasable goods through the process.

Well, in theory NSA can observe all of the internet traffic and filter out what is needed. Also, computer systems may have hardware integrated back doors. So, in theory, everything was already in place before, to track every movement of an currency that attracts people who in turn are attracted by the anonymous aspects in bitcoin. A way to lure out people who think that they have something to hide.
But well, it's all in theory and I have absolutely no idea what is really going on.

[knightcoin]

so it's by design for the lower in the food chain aka you/any Joe

If it is created for tracking and mapping then yeah.

even if it was like you say by design,
unless all exchanges, trade platforms, mixers are under the triangle eye (plus new alts starting with litecoin - they where not in the plan) that isn't 100% accurately possible. but it might give broader view for the overall analysis also considering the limitation of purchasable goods through the process.

Well, in theory NSA can observe all of the internet traffic and filter out what is needed. Also, computer systems may have hardware integrated back doors. So, in theory, everything was already in place before, to track every movement of an currency that attracts people who in turn are attracted by the anonymous aspects in bitcoin. A way to lure out people who think that they have something to hide.
But well, it's all in theory and I have absolutely no idea what is really going on.

After big-bang everything is history ...

[gollum]

If I was a manager at NSA I would order my team find Satoshi, and I would find him. You are never anonymous online.

So either NSA has found Satoshi and don't tell us about it.
Or they invented Bitcoin and used Satoshi as a pseudonym to give bitcoin a good start.
It would be a marketing disaster for bitcoin if it was officially released by NSA instead of the mystical idealist Satoshi.

[MatTheCat]

It's not a social experiment.

It's economic warfare

Yep.

And not against the USD and her allies, but against the upstart nations who are building up their economies and threatening the dollar hegemony, by looking for ways out of it. A liquid BTC market provides moderately wealthy individuals/middle classes with a 'I'm alright Jack' way of getting their funds out of a crisis hit economy, which in turn throws the economy into yet more crisis. The one day Ukraine panic showed exactly the ways in which Bitcoin would be used when the curtains seem like they might come down on a nations economy.

The USD will collapse, but not before every other currency economy has collapsed underneath that. Bitcoin is a way of helping BRICS and other small nations currencies collapse. A facilitator if you like. The instigation will come from other pressures.

Bitcoin is a tool of evil, not of liberty. Even if Satoshi is a libertarian and he believed in the altruistic ideals behind Bitcoin, it isn't really that hard for nefarious organisations to use well meaning individuals who operate under their umbrella as tools in a game they may not understand.

[Ibian]

It's not a social experiment.

It's economic warfare

Yep.

And not against the USD and her allies, but against the upstart nations who are building up their economies and threatening the dollar hegemony, by looking for ways out of it. A liquid BTC market provides moderately wealthy individuals/middle classes with a 'I'm alright Jack' way of getting their funds out of a crisis hit economy, which in turn throws the economy into yet more crisis. The one day Ukraine panic showed exactly the ways in which Bitcoin would be used when the curtains seem like they might come down on a nations economy.

The USD will collapse, but not before every other currency economy has collapsed underneath that. Bitcoin is a way of helping BRICS and other small nations currencies collapse. A facilitator if you like. The instigation will come from other pressures.

Bitcoin is a tool of evil, not of liberty. Even if Satoshi is a libertarian and he believed in the altruistic ideals behind Bitcoin, it isn't really that hard for nefarious organisations to use well meaning individuals as tools in a game they may not understand.

Aand none of it matters. Still. It still doesn't matter. Sound economies are not going to collapse because of bitcoin, and the ones that would break anyway would... ready for it? break anyway.

[MatTheCat]

Aand none of it matters. Still. It still doesn't matter. Sound economies are not going to collapse because of bitcoin, and the ones that would break anyway would... ready for it? break anyway.

Typical fkn ignorant American.

[Lauda]

Definitely not. Poor man.