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How Bitcoin's Not So Secret Satoshi Nakamoto Was Discovered (Hint: Phone Book)
Newsweek claims to have identified the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto - long believed to be a pseudonym - was hunted down through searches, conversations, and national archives: "It was only while scouring a database that contained the registration cards of naturalized U.S. citizens that a Satoshi Nakamoto turned up whose profile and background offered a potential match. But it was not until after ordering his records from the National Archives and conducting many more interviews that a cohesive picture began to take shape."
Some remain skeptical that Newsweek have found him but making such a bold claim is aggressive and comments from Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Anderson suggest this is the real Satoshi.
Newsweek explains how they found him:
There are several Satoshi Nakamotos living in North America and beyond - both dead and alive - including a Ralph Lauren menswear designer in New York and another who died in Honolulu in 2008, according to the Social Security Index's Death Master File. There's even one on LinkedIn who claims to have started Bitcoin and is based in Japan. But none of these profiles seem to fit other known details and few of the leads proved credible.
Of course, there is also the chance "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a pseudonym, but that raises the question why someone who wishes to remain anonymous would choose such a distinctive name.
It was only while scouring a database that contained the registration cards of naturalized U.S. citizens that a Satoshi Nakamoto turned up whose profile and background offered a potential match.
But it was not until after ordering his records from the National Archives and conducting many more interviews that a cohesive picture began to take shape.
We suspect people will be a little disappointed that he is not wearing a cape and looks conventionally like a standard Japanese tourist (who lives in Temple City, CA)...
Not even his family knew...
But Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger is modestly skeptical - though has some interesting perspective:
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At the end of the day, since no one can really prove the story right or wrong, it’s certainly possible the magazine merely agreed that it sounded plausible enough and decided it was worth the risk given the page views it would generate.
I tend to have decent intuition on these things, and as I was reading it, something appeared to be off. Perhaps it was the writer’s style, or perhaps just the strangeness of this guy’s personality, but it read a bizarrely to me. The way the guy calls the cops when she shows up to his door. Why would the person who created Bitcoin respond in that way? Also, while on the surface it might seem clever to use your real name in an attempt to remain anonymous, it isn’t really. Everyone trying to figure out who you are will start with searches of Satoshi Nakamoto no matter how stupid it seems.
The one thing that is causing many to speculate that this story is accurate, is the following tweet from Bitcoin core developer Gavin Andresen:
I'm disappointed Newsweek decided to dox the Nakamoto family, and regret talking to Leah.
— Gavin Andresen (@gavinandresen) March 6, 2014
This definitely reads as if Gavin is confirming the article, but it is still unclear to me whether Gavin himself knew Satoshi’s identity, or if he was just communicating with a digital person while working on Bitcoin.
From my perspective, something seems off in this article.
Nevertheless, here are some excerpts, come to your own conclusion:
Two police officers from the Temple City, Calif., sheriff’s department flank him, looking puzzled. “So, what is it you want to ask this man about?” one of them asks me. “He thinks if he talks to you he’s going to get into trouble.”
“I don’t think he’s in any trouble,” I say. “I would like to ask him about Bitcoin. This man is Satoshi Nakamoto.”
“What?” The police officer balks. “This is the guy who created Bitcoin? It looks like he’s living a pretty humble life.”
Tacitly acknowledging his role in the Bitcoin project, he looks down, staring at the pavement and categorically refuses to answer questions.
Ok, this is the first sentence that reads strangely. How did he acknowledge his role? By staring down? Not convincing.
I’d come here to try to find out more about Nakamoto and his humble life. It seemed ludicrous that the man credited with inventing Bitcoin – the world’s most wildly successful digital currency, with transactions of nearly $500 million a day at its peak – would retreat to Los Angeles’s San Bernardino foothills, hole up in the family home and leave his estimated $400 million of Bitcoin riches untouched. It seemed similarly implausible that Nakamoto’s first response to my knocking at his door would be to call the cops. Now face to face, with two police officers as witnesses, Nakamoto’s responses to my questions about Bitcoin were careful but revealing.
Not only does it seem implausible, it seems absurd to me. You are just asking for attention and to be outed by doing that.
Far from leading to a Tokyo-based whiz kid using the name “Satoshi Nakamoto” as a cipher or pseudonym (a story repeated by everyone from Bitcoin’s rabid fans to The New Yorker), 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.
Nakamoto ceased responding to emails I’d sent him immediately after I began asking about Bitcoin. This was in late February. Before that, I’d also asked about his professional background, for which there is very little to be found in the public record. I only received evasive answers.
When he asked about my background, I told him I’d be happy to elaborate over the phone and called him to introduce myself. When there was no response, I asked his oldest son, Eric Nakamoto, 31, to reach out and see whether his father would talk about Bitcoin. The message came back he would not. Attempts through other family members also failed.
After that, Nakamoto disregarded my requests to speak by phone and did not return calls. The day I arrived at his modest, single-family home in southern California, his silver Toyota Corolla CE was parked in the driveway but he didn’t answer the door.
“My brother is an asshole. What you don’t know about him is that he’s worked on classified stuff. His life was a complete blank for a while. You’re not going to be able to get to him. He’ll deny everything. He’ll never admit to starting Bitcoin.”
For nearly a year, Andresen corresponded with the founder of Bitcoin a few times a week, often putting in 40-hour weeks refining the Bitcoin code. Throughout their correspondence, Nakamoto’s evasiveness was his hallmark, Andresen says.
In fact, he never even heard Nakamoto’s voice, because the founder of Bitcoin would not communicate by phone. Their interactions, he says, always took place by “email or private message on the Bitcointalk forum,” where enthusiasts meet online.
So does Gavin’s tweet mean anything if he didn’t actually know the identity himself?
“He was the kind of person who, if you made an honest mistake, he might call you an idiot and never speak to you again,” Andresen says. “Back then, it was not clear that creating Bitcoin might be a legal thing to do. He went to great lengths to protect his anonymity.”
“I got the impression that Satoshi was really doing it for political reasons,” says Andresen, who gets paid in Bitcoins – along with a half-dozen other Bitcoin core developers working everywhere from Silicon Valley to Switzerland – by the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit working to standardize the currency.
He doesn’t like the system we have today and wanted a different one that would be more equal. He did not like the notion of banks and bankers getting wealthy just because they hold the keys,” says Andresen.
Communication with Bitcoin’s founder was becoming less frequent by early 2011. Nakamoto stopped posting changes to the Bitcoin code and ignored conversations on the Bitcoin forum.
Andresen was unprepared, however, for Satoshi Nakamoto’s reaction to an email exchange between them on April 26, 2011.
“I wish you wouldn’t keep talking about me as a mysterious shadowy figure,” Nakamoto wrote to Andresen. “The press just turns that into a pirate currency angle. Maybe instead make it about the open source project and give more credit to your dev contributors; it helps motivate them.”
Andresen responded: “Yeah, I’m not happy with the ‘wacky pirate money’ tone, either.”
Then he told Nakamoto he’d accepted an invitation to speak at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. “I hope that by talking directly to them and, more importantly, listening to their questions/concerns, they will think of Bitcoin the way I do – as a just-plain-better, more efficient, less-subject-to-political-whims money,” he said. “Not as an all-powerful black-market tool that will be used by anarchists to overthrow the System.”
From that moment, Satoshi Nakamoto stopped responding to emails and dropped off the map.
Descended from Samurai and the son of a Buddhist priest, Nakamoto was born in July 1949 in the city of Beppu, Japan, where he was brought up poor in the Buddhist tradition by his mother, Akiko. In 1959, after a divorce and remarriage, she immigrated to California, taking her three sons with her. Now age 93, she lives with Nakamoto in Temple City.
Of course, none of this puts to rest the biggest question of all – the one that only Satoshi Nakamoto himself can answer: What has kept him from spending his hundreds of millions of dollars of Bitcoin, which he reaped when he launched the currency years ago? According to his family both he – and they – could really use the money.
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a genuis living on his terms. if you dont get it or dont like it, then that's your limitation, irrespective of technical/legal/hack/code/philosophical limitations on your and/or BTC end...
if u dont appreciate the spirit of founder and his desire to circumnavigate that which most of us up in here despise, then you're foolz....
that's Satoshi, RIIIIIGHT.
video: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101469309
Members Only, bitchez!
I said I'd buy a bitcoin when I knew who Satoshi was. Do I still gotta follow through if I call bs?
This article does not establish him as being the real Satoshi. Shame on the "journalist" for not respecting this man's privacy and anonymity!
don't be bitter foneystar.. just keep your eye on that BTC price as it keeps dropping.
Bitcoin has been rallying you fucking moron.
Yup... rallying its way DOWN from 1100.... Are you suffering from vertigo?
Off from the 400's and back to four figures now moron.
four figures following a decimal?.... Now that the mystery is falling so will with the price and little credability it had...
This journalist is pure scum. She tracked this poor guy down and harassed him and his family for months to the point they called the police on her when she came pounding on their door and refused to leave.
What she fails to mention in her story are the stream of email and Facebook messaging and phone calls to friends and family and had been repeatedly told to go away.
" investigative news Journalist" like this are life leeches feeding off society
I wonder if she could find out why WTC7 fell down. That would be good for society.
because it was sitting atop a pile of gold that needd to be disapeared
Everyone involved needs to be disappeared ... after a tour around the country in circus cages and an ample supply of overripe fruit and vegetables furnished to those out to greet them.
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source?commentId...
I am not Dorian Nakamoto.
That's quite the coincidence, neither am I, and that's also what I'd say if I didn't want people to know.
I hope you're using the term 'moron' in clinically correct context.
In psychology and IQ rating, the now discarded term (not just 'unfashionable', but downright "politically incorrect!") refers to an adult's IQ level of an 8-12 y.o. child.
So, technically, if you call a 10 y.o. kid a 'moron', you are simply calling him a "child of a child's intelligence", IOW: a "kid". BTW, one of my (smart Alec) kids pointed this out to me, after he asked me "What exactly does the word 'moron' mean?"... after a TV sitcom dad called his kids "Moron!" several times.
BTW, if you have tried to email me I cannot access that account anymore. Hushmail is trying to get fonestar to pay for it.
That's odd, Kirk does not have that problem with that provider. You or others can still reach me at my handle (Kirk...) at hu sh ma il dot com.
I always welcome new friends, who have something to say that is intelligent and of value, and I enjoy responding in kind.
Trust and Friendship comes with time, as it's earned. If people disagree, I prefer they do so in a well-reasoned and civil manner: "We can disagree, w/o being disagreeable", is one of my mottos. Although I too succumb to occasional 'expressions' of "righteous indignation", since I don't suffer fools or hypocrites gladly.
That's odd, Kirk does not have that problem with that provider. You or others can still reach me at my handle (Kirk...) at hu sh ma il dot com.
I always welcome new friends, who have something to say that is intelligent and of value, and I enjoy responding in kind.
Trust and Friendship comes with time, as it's earned. If people disagree, I prefer they do so in a well-reasoned and civil manner: "We can disagree, w/o being disagreeable", is one of my mottos. Although I too succumb to occasional 'expressions' of "righteous indignation", since I don't suffer fools or hypocrites gladly.
That's odd, Kirk does not have that problem with that provider. You or others can still reach me at my handle (Kirk...) at hu sh ma il dot com.
I always welcome new friends, who have something to say that is intelligent and of value, and I enjoy responding in kind.
Trust and Friendship comes with time, as it's earned. If people disagree, I prefer they do so in a well-reasoned and civil manner: "We can disagree, w/o being disagreeable", is one of my mottos. Although I too succumb to occasional 'expressions' of "righteous indignation", since I don't suffer fools or hypocrites gladly.
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I always welcome new friends, who have something to say that is intelligent and of value, and I enjoy responding in kind.
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For everyone else (to quote an old friend of mine): "Eat hot phasar!"
What's with the multiple posts!?
Sorry. :-(
Goddam cell phone!
Use all those bitcoins you have to pay for it.......Foneystar.
Bitcoin at $666 on the day that Satoshi is outed. Just want to let that hang out there for all the theorists, nutters, wackos, quackaloons, and rabble out there...
fonestar wears the mark of the biteast.
what mark is that? A dildo strapped to your forehead?
lolz +1
Don't swallow the sinker yet. Is this the writing of a genius?
http://www.businessinsider.com/dorian-satoshi-letter-and-train-2014-3
It is the writing of someone whose first language is not English.
A golden one at that.
oh myyyyyy
TPTB have a sick sense of humor, the S&P bottom in 2009 was 666, too.
"...having done classified work for major corporations and the U.S. military."
Goldman Sachs and the N.S.A.?
This is worse than celebrity gossip tmz shit, who cares? I'll just be happy when the debate on this cryptocurrency crap is ended one way or the other, sick and tired of hearing about it. It's got all the charm of spam email at this point.
Well the MSM is still in the anger phase about the cryptocurrencies. The acceptance stage is a long ways off, so be prepared to hear alot more about them for the foreseeable future.
PaV - wasn't that the bottom of the Stalingrad and Poorsky Index in 2008 ? Wonder if the Fed will untaper and derive BitCoin higher. Or.. the Feds will "sell" BitCoin as sort of a SDR as a tiered currency for capital investment outside one's country.
You know the old commercial USD versus the financial USD rate.
His name is Satoshi Nakamoto, though that was originally thought to be just a pseudonym, and he’s a highly secretive individual with ties to even more secretive government programs. According to Goodman, he’s worked on a host of highly classified projects for the U.S. military including the development warship and aircraft technology, but details about his career are sparse.
Bonestar.keep.believing.u.moron
We've always said he's likely ex-intelligence you reject!
believe, fonestar, believe - said the fairy godmother to the retarded fonstar.
Fonestar, one more time: It is digital, it has no value, it came from no where, it has to be stored somewhere on the internet - and without electricity you have none. Bitcoin has become the "people's fiat". Governments would love to convert completely to bitcoin - it is their DREAM!!
Gold (silver): It is TANGIBLE, it has great value, it came from labor, it cannot vanish and it cannot be taken from you by a nerd.
"Tacitly acknowledging his role in the Bitcoin project, he looks down, staring at the pavement and categorically refuses to answer questions."
"What has kept him from spending his hundreds of millions of dollars..."
The article itself answers this question, he was raised Buddhist and not everyone is a money whore!
Excellent point and he is a software engineer to boot. These people typically don't behave as "normal" (read idiot) people might expect them to.
“What?” The police officer balks. “This is the guy who created Bitcoin? It looks like he’s living a pretty humble life.”
Since when does a police officer know the first fucking thing about BitCoin??
This is shoddy, pathetic excuse for journalism. Not bad investigating but nothing conclusive and nothing worth printing.
Also, if this man is Satoshi he has a bounty on his head now and if anyone can make him reveal his wallet & private keys they could steal hundreds of millions worth of Bitcoin and crash the Bitcoin market (temporarily at least).
Well we know what you are doing tonight... I'll mark the post for the authorites so they know it was you hoe.
The story of bitcoin is as bad as Newtown. Both made up bullshit by the US government. Oh, and bitcoin is made up bullshit too.
Why do Bitcoin markets not react to all this exciting "news" as reported by Zerohedge? Let fonestar tell you why... the simplest answer is the best. The markets do not care.
The bitcoin markets are not reacting since no one can sell or convert them to currency.... LOL! #crytorevolutinaryretards.
.gov shill account.
Self-admitted bond holder.
I buy and sell at coinbase. It works fine. I also don't keep money there, because it is more secure in my offline wallet.
Your argument is weak like your mind, friend. Your argument maps to the gold sector as: The gold markets don't react because no one can sell it or convert it into currency because MF Global.
Conflating a currency with an exchange marks you either as a complete moron, or as a manipulator. Which are you?
Zerohedge will be considered a high-value target by these ops and their shills.
We knew you’d set the bar low, but who’d a thunk you’d bury it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQZ7d0D1a8
I bet I can guess the classified work he was doing? Create a digital honeypot for the CIA and NSA. As more nerds and greedy idiots flew towards the light, Satoshi was paid handsomely in vintage Lionel.
greedy idiots indeed
Because he's a cop, that somehow precludes him from knowing the first fucking thing about bitcoin? huh!?
Yeah, like not showering, brushing teeth, wearing deodorant... They closed all the mental asylums and viola we have goobs of software engineers. I am not shitting you.
Hey, don't knock it till you try it.
And speaking of shitting, try putting on a diaper and sitting in your own waste for four days while playing Halo 4 ain't as easy as it looks.
"What has kept him from spending his hundreds of millions of dollars..."
What kept Grigori Perelman from collecting the Fields medal ($15,000) or Clay Millenium Prize ($1,000,000)?
Perelman declined to accept the award or to appear at the congress, stating: "I'm not interested in money or fame; I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo."
Please- it was Uncle Benny all along.....
Newsweek... enough said?
TPTB would only publish this because they want to see harm done to this man, August and anyone else in Bitcoin.
...and supposing harm comes our way it still will not stop Bitcoin's advance.
NERDGASM!
"Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Anderson" IS FUCKING SATOSHI.
Jesus Christ, people. A team of three atleast, but Gavin Andresen is one of the original spooks involved w/ the creation of BTC. Of that, there can be no doubt.
I am serious. He admits to being involved since the beginning, he admits to knowing who Satoshi is, he has the technical expertise, he is STILL anonymous (or unadmitted), he has the damn ALERT KEY for BTC.
He just doesn't want to reveal the NSA origins of the project, I imagine. Also, that would mean the 'spoils' are not entirely owned by one person. He admits to being paid in BTC, so maybe that was the agreement, to have the early BTC released to him over time, for continued work on the project.
Don't destroy foneystar's wet dreams.
Foney's nightly prayer:
"Hail Satoshi, full of... uhh... err... bits..."
Gavin Andresen's open letter to Leah McGrath.
Suppose that the original creator(s) worked for the NSA.
The "21 million Bitcoin" question then becomes: Was it an official NSA experiment? Was it discarded, or still ongoing? If it wasn't a project, or was discarded, then can NSA types not "pull a Snowden" and do this on their own? If so, I can see why they would NOT want their IDs to come out, or they're "toast".
In any case, we have since seen a host of crypto-currencies appear, many of which are better in their concept and architecture.
ps. Don't forget and don't get distracted: "Gold and Crypto-Currencies are a natural pairing (what one can't do, the other one can), and BOTH are enemies of CBs."
Can you do that, can you keep that straight and clear in your head, or are you easy prey for the Divide & Conquer tricks of TPTB?
None of them are peer to peer, which is what's needed. All rely on a third party, just like banks. Which makes the concept fundamentally broken from the start, they don't solve any of the real problems that our current financial system has created. => Malinvestment.
I think the NSA, CIA, DOD, or some compartment of government has their tentacles all over BTC in one form or another.
Too many secrets.
So quite a bit of "classified" work for the government...Sounds about right.
www.TopTheNews.com
I wonder if we might find God living in a hut somewhere in the Amazon rainforest.
If only we would look.
PaV - I really think it is fonestar...
And since that irresponsible journalist just put lots of ID information out about this man and all his family - who may or may not be 'Satoshi' (of Bitcoin) - those people just had their lives put at risk. Kidnapping and blackmail attempts probably coming soon ... with hundreds of millions at stake, the rough crowd will be there like yesterday,
The media is just a spook project. Easy and highly deniable way to have him offed.
It isn't. I know the foam-at-the-mouth regular commenters on Bitcoin threads would *love* it to be true - if only so they could paw through his history and make associations while adjusting their tinfoil hats, it isn't true at all.
The real satoshi can sign a message using a key that only he has. He also can post on a webpage he's left dormant since 2010.
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/m/discussion?id=2003008%3ATopic%3A9402 <-- The last reply there is only an hour or so old.
The poor old japanese man is not Satoshi, even if some stupid bimbo trying to play investigative journalist says he is.
say what you will about BTC or btc-tards, but the guy is smart.
I wonder who the guy was to make the first bar of gold...
Mr. Gooddelivery Bar
Fonestar is about to cream his shorts
Interesting that we haven't heard from fonestar yet. Kind of makes me think that maybe fonestar IS Satoshi. I, for one, have never seen them in the same place.
I don't know about Fonestar, but I, the great Kim Jong Un, have just rubbed one out. That guy is hot!
a bit can be 1 or 0, he knows at 600 it is a bubble.
My take is that I really don't care. BTC will make it, or not, based on its own merits ultimately.
Yes. Why do BTC markets not react to all this exciting, breaking "news" as ZH might call it?
My guess is that all the gold silver guys here who constantly shit on bitcoin are in their 50s 60s. They don't truly understand it. Virtual currency is the future, anyone who truly understands it's concept knows that. The only question is when. it's scary not to understand something, change is scary. Going backwards is never the answer.
dontknowcrapabout...My guess is that all the gold silver guys here who constantly shit on bitcoin are in their 50s 60s. They don't truly understand it. Virtual currency is the future, anyone who truly understands it's concept knows that. The only question is when. it's scary not to understand something, change is scary. Going backwards is never the answer.
You actually don't know crap about investing... Those two losers staging a one man protest outside of MtGox looked 50+. An idiot is an idiot. If you're "investing" in bitcoins YOU'RE A FUCKING STUPID IDIOT and I can't help you. You can't fix stupid.
Now, do you want to compare net worth? I'll bet yours is negative. Sorry, just keeping in real.
What is their to understand?
The encryption will one day be broken, meaning BTC won't appreciate for decades and decades (due to its natural deflationary tendency, i.e. people losing their BTC passwords). Without the word 'coin', the gold-colored logo (hmmm, interesting color choice), and the idea that computers are 'mining', what are you left with exactly?
Cryptocurrency has the ability to serve the same purpose as Corporate Scrip, Air Miles, Green Stamps, etc. On the individual level. But not more than that.
"What is their [sic] to understand?"
"same purpose as Corporate Scrip, Air Miles, Green Stamps, etc."
Yep, you've displayed the extent of your understanding of the basic concepts behind decentralized, nation-less, border-less, fixed supply currency. But, heh, don't bother reading Zero Hedge.
perhaps speculating would be a more accurate term than "investing"
Now, do you want to compare net worth? I'll bet yours is negative. Sorry, just keeping in real.
nope...no debt here...zero...
own my business, work from home
have a house, paid for
but i'm not going to get into who's got a bigger dick contest here, because honestly i dont care
thanks
Perhaps they have a long term perspective, and experience that kids in their twenties, cannot hope to have for another 20 years.
Bitcoin transactions need to be verified by a third pary in order to be valid. This exposes bitcoin to counter-party risk. A risk that gold, and silver are not threatened by.
The third party with gold is the rest of the world valueing it as being precious.
You need a whole bunch of people agree with the fact that gold is worth something.
Same for bitcoin, but you use an extra layer of dependency, the internet.
Once internet stops, bitcoin dies.
But once internet stops, the whole world stops.
People then can't even imagine what gold is worth because most of the gold bugs value it by looking to a digital chart.
But even the goldbug can value it, the butcher can't
Just watch the videos of Mark dice wandering arround to sell a one ounce gold coin for 50 dollar.
Goldbugs are lost as well when internet stops..
But they still have something when the world starts spinning again.
I'm not sure if my cold wallets are still worth something then...
"The third party with gold is the rest of the world valueing it as being precious." That's not counter-party risk, it's the mechanism that determines its price.
When I lose internet access, I have no way of verifying that your bitcoin is genuine. If the rest of the network doesn't like the transaction, I am screwed. THAT is counter-party risk.
Hah ha ha ha
"My brother is an asshole." So, he's not his brother's keeper?
And Newsweek, to quote:
"There are several Satoshi Nakamotos living in North America and beyond - both dead and alive - including a....."
Since when are dead people living somewhere?
Nit-picker.
Nitcoin
Since Newsweek made it possible.
So, shaddup and accept your re-programming.
Satoshi will be unhappy unless you build a shrine to his genuis.
foney's working on the shrine as we speak... a "virtual shrine" of course...
Except he was content to live a simple, anonymous life.
You guys will doublethink your way into continuing the claim that bitcoin was created by the NSA somehow in any event.
The dead inhabit most liberal voting precincts
They did say living beyond , so it is possible.
But it was not until after ordering his records from the National Archives ...
Huh? Do they have a website where you can just order up records from the National Archives on any Joe Shmoe?
Most 'journalists' will just bride an attorney with access to the Lexus-Nexus system and then back-fill a convenient story to fit with amazing coincidences leading to the discovery of locating an elusive person.
Bride an attorney? Jeez, that could be expensive when it comes to divorcing them immediately afterwards.
Since when was the federal PRIVACY ACT of 1974 repealed? National Archives falls under 5 U.S.C. § 552a.
http://www.justice.gov/opcl/privstat.htm
THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974
5 U.S.C. § 552aAs Amended
§ 552a. Records maintained on individuals
(a) Definitions
(b) Conditions of disclosure
(c) Accounting of Certain Disclosures
(d) Access to records
(e) Agency requirements
(f) Agency rules
The Office of the Federal Register shall biennially compile and publish the rules promulgated under this subsection and agency notices published under subsection (e)(4) of this section in a form available to the public at low cost.
(g)(1) Civil remedies
(h) Rights of legal guardians
(i)(1) Criminal penalties
(j) General exemptions
At the time rules are adopted under this subsection, the agency shall include in the statement required under section 553(c) of this title, the reasons why the system of records is to be exempted from a provision of this section.
(k) Specific exemptions
At the time rules are adopted under this subsection, the agency shall include in the statement required under section 553(c) of this title, the reasons why the system of records is to be exempted from a provision of this section.
(1) Archival records
(m) Government contractors
(n) Mailing lists
(o) Matching agreements -- (1) No record which is contained in a system of records may be disclosed to a recipient agency or non-Federal agency for use in a computer matching program except pursuant to a written agreement between the source agency and the recipient agency or non-Federal agency specifying--
(p) Verification and Opportunity to Contest Findings
(q) Sanctions
(r) Report on new systems and matching programs
(s) [Biennial report] Repealed by the Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 104-66, § 3003, 109 Stat. 707, 734-36 (1995), amended by Pub. L. No. 106-113, § 236, 113 Stat. 1501, 1501A-302 (1999) (changing effective date to May 15, 2000).
(t) Effect of other laws
(u) Data Integrity Boards
(v) Office of Management and Budget Responsibilities
The following section originally was part of the Privacy Act but was not codified; it may be found at § 552a (note).
The following sections originally were part of P.L. 100-503, the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988; they may be found at § 552a (note).
Go to: DOJ FOIA Page // Justice Department Home Page
Updated page September 26, 2003usdoj/oip/pam
Thanks. I was itchin' for a giant wall of text, and there it is.
TLDR;
now just imagine the thousand other giant walls of text that is the rest of the USC.
FranzK has got to be shaking his head at this point, muttering "I told you so" under his undead breath.
At least it wasn't in a portion of a thread where it is one word wide. You'd still be scrolling. As to an answer to his question about privacy being repealed... it happened when they repealed the Constitution.
Uh yeah, thanks for burning up my bandwidth with that.....
"TL;DR."
—the NSA
Just posting the link would be fine.
It's the new paradigm.
Post a response six to seven pages long, even if its all dead space with only one sentence at the end.
That way you can say you own this blog.
Ever hear of just posting a "LINK', butthead?
Enjoy the down arrows fuckwad.
A link would work just as well.
Did you have that thing all HTML-formatted and ready to let loose for just such an occasion?
Hey Tolstoy, next time why don't you just post a link. Ctrl C and Ctrl V doesn't really show much creativity.
Seriously? Who is going to read all that crap?
Well, not our 'representatives' , that's for sure. From what I hear, they always pass these things to find out what's in them.
I sped read it while I sped scrolled past it, and now I'm as limp wrist'ed as Obama around Reggie Love.
Asshole.
I got carpel tunnel just scrolling down past all that shit
You're a cunt for posting that!
Fucking asshole!
Seriously Tyler you should delete that fucking thing!
Who cares? Has our news obsession come to this?
It definitely beats out a twerkin' Miley Cyrus
Who cares? In case you haven't noticed "fonestar" hasn't posted a comment on this article. That's because he is off to CA to build a shrine.
there is no spoon
He will have sold as many T shirts as Che Quevera in 5 years....
Is that a Ghostbusters baseball cap he is wearing?
Short Round all grown up
Showing his respect to Harold Ramis.
I knew one of the supposed Genius spook types once. Supposedly finished college at 19 was recruited by Sig Intel at 21. Spent 15 years in the Netherlands at a secret facility.
Guy was a genius with code. Tried to run a business, failed. I think he lived on short term contracts with the government. I can see him writing Bitcoin code for purely intellectual pursuit and surprised by the success.
Yeah, but could he tie his own shoe laces.
Most of those people at the university level should take remedial courses in basic hygiene and simple social skills.
Neither can Maxine Waters
you are correct, he was miserable with day to day activities. He was also a train collector.
I shake my head sadly at the depths to which American journalism has fallen. What a cesspool.
Stop talking about Zero Hedge like that.
We're all wee porters now, PE ?!
The image of a true hero. Sticking it to the petrodollar.
Satoshi Nakamoto. I salute thee!!!!!!!
well, if you really honor him, perhaps it might be best to encourage him to trade his stash toots sweet for a remote mountain villa somewhere in SA before the Galloping PressHordes of the Apocalypse swarm in and ruin the remainder of his and his mother's life.
Satoshi's behavior, and my critical cynicism, lead me to believe Bitcoin has government code in it that he pilfered from projects he worked on. Everything he has done and said points to him seeing his legal liability.
Direct gov't involvement in BTC is all but confirmed at this point. Every other (credible)conspiracy has been proven true with the passage of time. I expect this to be no different.
Who is Satoshi Galt?
If it turns out to be true, it's kind of odd they found this guy about the same way they find John Galt in Atlus Shrugged. Weird coincidence.
Also, if you think the guy is acting weird, he isn't the first reclusive genius that refused to accept monetary rewards for his work. Check out this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
Brilliant. And probably a bit off his rocker. I'm not sure the two are mtuually exclusive when it comes to abstract invention.
doubled up again.
"having done classified work for major corporations and the U.S. military"
Wonder how much of this work was to create protocals like Bitcoin, which would give the US military a backdoor