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Satoshi is alive

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Any proof? Like you'd think he'd cryptographically sign this message at least.

Of course not, lol. Like 100 times before, for real satoshi it would be pretty easy to prove it without lousy riddles by just signing a message with his gpg key.

If this were meant to be some sort of proof of life, it would have been cryptographically signed. We are talking about someone who believed deeply in cryptography, and whose most notable achievement came as a result of cryptographic technology.

My guess is that a request for bitcoin donations to "his" foundation is forthcoming.

Huh? look at the PDF [1] and compare it with the Satoshi’s Bitcoin paper[2]. The bitcoin paper follows the academic paper standard. And that PDF is MS word-generated, absolutely no proper citation, and claimed a paper?

[1]: http://nakamotofamilyfoundation.org/duality.pdf

[2]: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

The original whitepaper was a technical document this duality.pdf seems more like a memoir or retelling. It was just posted yesterday, let's see if the person(s) behind it provide cryptographic proof.

Why wouldn't real satoshi sign first and then start telling lousy stories?

Maybe he doesn't want to move the market too much. It could go either way. FUD brigade would jump on the "Satoshi will dump" narrative.

> Doesn't use HTTPS

> Use Microsoft Word to generate PDF without proper format compared to the original whitepaper

> No cryptographic proof

> Posted in midst of annual record low bitcoin price, hoping to pump it up?

> Doesn't use HTTPS

I don't understand the fetish of HTTPS. It's important when you send some data via a web form etc. that you don't want to be sniffed. But when you just want to read a website, it doesn't make any practical difference, neither to the website owner (the supposed "Satoshi" in this case), nor the visitor. If an attacker sniffs on your traffic, they'll see the address in both cases, so they'll know the content you read.

Https protect the information both ways. It protect the data you upload but also the data you download. Thanks to https you can verify that the data you recieve and is displayed by your browser is the one that was sent by the server and it hasn't been modified by any of potentially multiple intermediaries between you and the server.

The way the Internet works, it will try to find a way from you to the server you are trying to contact, it doesn't guarantee you that you will pass only through trusted intermediaries.

There are some stories of ISP changing http content to add advertisement or changing images for "lighter" one.

Then you can also insert your own JS say to do even worse things....

And the evidence that this is actually Satoshi is what exactly?

I came here to ask the same thing, but it looks awesome even if it's fake.

It doesn't matter that it's not cryptographically signed and not using https, etc. If the paper contains details about the history of bitcoin that can then be proved to be true, that is well on the way to validation. i.e., details such as "timechain" preceding "blockchain."

I dont want believe Satoshi is not using https.

...because? There are people who don't care about it and have good reasons for it. See a good semi-serious discussion here: http://n-gate.com/software/2017/07/12/0/

that captcha is taking years to load..

Honne and Tatemae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honne_and_tatemae

FYI. This is the answer to the oddly non-cryptic puzzle adverting a new book's (if it is ever made) title.

It's a "don't forget to drink your ovaltine" puzzle.

FYI. This response references an awesome holiday movie. If you haven't seen "A Christmas Story", it's well worth a watch come Winter.

It looks like someone have read through the cypherpunk and bitcoin mailing list and extrapolate a story from that, making it feel "from the inside".

A story on how satoshi and hal got to debug a thing together but hal couldn't debug a release build... sending a debug build was 44MB bigger...

A story on mapAddresses.count

A story on ThreadSocketHandler and ThreadMessageHandler.

They all match to public mailing list discussions: https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynaka...

Some part aren't even redacted:

"The database unfortunately names its files "log.0000000001". To the rest of the world, "log" means delete-at-will, but to database people it means delete-and-lose-everything-in-your-other-files. I tried to put them out of harm's way by putting them in the database subdirectory"

Meta: is it me or is the percentage of articles posted to HN which are subsequently flagged sitewide rising fairly significantly over the past few months?

Any data to support or refute this casual observation?

Whenever I find a flagged article it's from the hacker news feed on facebook, so you could crawl that and check the urls over time.

That would be more like "popular articles that get flagged" but that's probably what you wanted anyway.

No signature? No Satoshi.

Is this the supposed bitcoin author?

nah he ain't

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