I think that we should just leave satoshi alone. He doesn't need to be unmasked
Yup at least he can walk around without being hounded. Imagine if he was known he would have people chasing him and would thenn need to hire security.
I think we are falling for the media hype. It seems clear to me that there is no one really looking for Satoshi in this fashion. We have been given the impression Satoshi is not in plain site. Some punk kid gave us the feeling Satoshi is negotiating to KEEP their freedom. But that's not really what's happening I think. The media has given us the wrong impression, Satoshi I think is not hidden at all.
Theory: Hal Finney was Satoshi Nakamoto
I wonder if Hal Finney created a false name account, and sent the first bitcoin transaction to himself,
Maybe, it might be though that "Satoshi" really did need someone to help them "setup" their realization. The network needed a 2nd person to be worth a non-zero amount and Finney may have just had fortunate timing and perfect expertise. It may be that Satoshi felt exactly this way:
"I am speaking about a research project that is not fully complete since I have not yet written up and submitted for publication any paper or papers describing the work. Also the details of what axioms to use and how to select the basic set theory underlying the hierarchical extension to be constructed are not fully crystallized. I have also a great fear of possible error in studying topics in this area. It is not rare, historically, for systems to be proposed that are either inconsistent or that have unexpected weaknesses. So I feel that I must be cautious and proceed without rushing to a goal. And this psychology of fear has also inhibited me from consulting other persons expert in logic before I could feel that I had gotten my own ideas into good shape."
If you think that is good, read Nick's post on Bitgold in 2008, not long before Bitcoin came out.
Yes bitgold is very interesting and "suspicious". If you like that you might like "ideal money" that reads like a bitcoin manifesto
http://unenumerated.blogspot.ca/2005/12/bit-gold.htmlhttp://sites.stat.psu.edu/~babu/nash/money.pdfOn of the reasons I think "unmasking" Satoshi isn't such a real thing is because all of this is in such plain sight. I think much of the upper elite bitcoin community believe's Satoshi anonymity needs the utmost security, however, I think they are mistaken and misunderstand. The general community is also still functioning of confusion and misunderstanding.
A man said this would happen, he traveled to Iceland, all throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, China, Italy pretty much ever significant country in the world quietly calmly stating there is going to be a "money" revolution, where the "money printing" governments are going to lose their power to the citizens.
He alludes to and describes the history of money in 14 or so different versions of "ideal money", and talks about possibly new "future" currencies, that will cause the people to begin to start learning about and evaluating money based on their quality and stability in terms of its money printing schedule.
Nash calls for an evaluation of a basket of commodity prices, and no one seems to understand what that means. However, Nick Szabo's blog, a large portion of it (maybe 10 papers +supporting links), is an EXTENSIVE overview, history, and review, of all significant commodities and indicating factors when it comes to the prices of our markets. Who does this and why?
Szabo has EXTENSIVELY studied and written about commodities and their relation to currency. I must say again if you have read this man's blog, then you know its perfectly the instruction set and explanation of the creation of bitcoin.
Here's milton friedman on monetary policy:
… Suppose the federal reserve said it was going to increase the quantity of money 4% every year week after week month after month… that would be a truly mechanical project. You could program a computer to do that…what you want to do is if possible is to have a mechanical system. If there was any virtue to the gold standard it was that virtue. Maybe you could create the same thing now…I would if I had my choice, freeze the amount of high powered money…and hold it as a constant. And have it as sort of a natural constant like gravity or something.
This is the thinking that Austrian economics and the like have bred. Something Nash is quite interested in:
"After consulting with some of the economics faculty at Princeton, I learned of the work and publications of Friedrich von Hayek. I must say that my thinking is apparently quite parallel to his thinking in relaiton to money and particularly with regard to the non-typical viewpoint in relation to the functions of the authorities which in recent times have been the sources of currencies
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Sources of currencies...not many people 10 or 20 years ago were talking as if there was a different option for "source" of money I would think. Here's Szabo on Hayek:
"Austrian economists like Hayek usually eschewed the use of traditional mathematics to describe the economy because such use assumes that economic complexities can be reduced to a small number of axioms."
"As Friedrich Hayek pointed out, our mutual inability to understand a very high fraction of what others know has profound implications for our economic and political institutions. "
Szabo has some key papers based on Hayek and the role he played in "Szabo" understanding of the history of economics. Nash suggests Ideal money could come about if:
"We of Terra could be taught how to have ideal monetary systems if wise and benevolent extraterrestrials were to take us in hand and administer our national money systems… A possible non political basis for a value standard…a good industrial consumption price index (ICPI) statistic. From…international prices of commodities such as copper, silver, tungsten…"
"...this standard, as a basis for the standardization of the value of the international money unit, would remove the political roles of the “grand pardoners""
"It is possible to construct a prices index based on moving averages...could be constructed by computing a moving average of the index for the base metals computed by pricing them modulo the index of the precious metals."
"... it seems that it would be intrinsically quite feasible to make use of sorts of services, energy, or prices, that depend on the national location of the definition of the commodity, service, or asset being priced."
It seems Szabo was running related simulations on these numbers:
"I have run some Monte Carlo simulations of hypothetical oil prices implied by long-term inflation expectations."
We might not understand Nash well, but Szabo would, and his blog "eerily" seems to devle perfectly into the specifics of what nash proposes. Szabo describes and demystifies the history of prices of all significant commoditeces and growth factions like inflation. Is this Szabo or Nash:
"The fault lies with poorly managed floating currencies..."
"...when inflation expectations decrease, we can expect (contrary to peak oil theory) oil pumping to greatly increase, as having dollars will once again become more valuable than having oil in the ground"
"We may be seeing only the first stages of a switch from floating currencies, which may be proving to be unworkable, to commodity-backed currencies"
"…in particular currencies should be eliminated in order to allow payment terms denominated in commodity indices to be as simple as payment terms denominated in dollars"
"These kinds of reforms will bring the benefits of stable commodity money "
"…humans also have foresight and can reason by analogy, and so can design an exchange to trade new kinds of securities, a new kind of insurance service, or a new kind of currency"
This in particular from Szabo
perfectly describes the concept of ideal money, and he seems to predict just like nash, the ending of arbitrary money printing government schemes:
"If the Federal Reserve decided to use leading indicators (e.g. commodities) instead of trailing indicators… or decided to go to a de facto commodity index or back to the gold standard, and stopped bad practices such as “printing” dollars…we would not need to otherwise use commodities for monetary purposes."
"Commodity prices in dollars will level off, and then move back down close to historical trends based largely on just industrial consumption, if or when the Fed stops increasing the supply of dollars faster than the demand for dollars"
It seems to me none of this is hidden and when the material is put side by side it all makes complete sense, we seem comfortable to exist under a shroud of confusion because the evidence and explanation seems to have been in front of us the entire time.
