They don’t know. and the documentary will be bigfoot level speculation.
Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims
Submitted 7 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 months ago
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Did I miss it, or did the article not tell you who it (supposedly) is?
hate2bme@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well no, it’s an ad for the doc.
taaz@biglemmowski.win 7 months ago
It hasn’t released yet it seems, october 8. Guessing this is the one www.hbo.com/…/money-electric-the-bitcoin-mystery though HBO does not seem to claim any of the above, I smell another flop.
rsuri@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s overwhelmingly likely to be someone none of us have ever heard of. If nothing else because that’s the base rate. Also because someone nerdy enough to care about this stuff before cryptocurrency existed couldn’t possibly have a life.
johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
the NSA or other intelligence org invented it and provides ongoing funding to collect an enormous library of SHA256 hashes to aid in reducing the decryption space of SHA256 so they can watch people watching porn.
eleitl@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It wasn’t me.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
[citation needed]
WildPalmTree@lemmy.world 7 months ago
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I hope they either never find out who made it or the person who made it is dead and has lost their private keys somewhere where they can never ever be retrieved. Like, can you imagine the threat to your life that would occur if you were unmasked as Satoshi? Whoever the entity is deserves to be left alone. They did a great service for humanity, and humanity should respect them.
erwan@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
What service did they provide to humanity, one more speculative asset but that also contributes to global warming?
xenomor@lemmy.world 7 months ago
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Or it was likely not a single individual, but a government contractor. How else could a compartmentalized secret remain so for this long?
frezik@midwest.social 7 months ago
A single individual is the most likely way to keep a secret compartmentalized.
xodoh74984@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hal Finney, no?
The software engineer, cryptography expert, and cyberpunk who received the first ever Bitcoin transaction and had a neighbor named “Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto”?
nforminvasion@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Cypherpunk or cyberpunk?
expatriado@lemmy.world 7 months ago
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
dhork@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not really, all it requires is someone to produce a signed message with one of Satoshi’s private keys, which can be easily verified with the public addresses on the blockchain. Whoever produced that message can be proven to possess that private key.
If we presume that Satoshi understood that Bitcoin may be valuable one day and kept the keys private, that would mean that the signer really is Satoshi (or one of his associates or heirs Satoshi trusted wih access). Even if that person wasn’t actually Satoshi, their word on who it is would be considered authoritative.
Unless it’s Craig. Fuck that guy. Nobody believes him.
jungle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That is the extraordinary evidence being referenced.
neidu2@feddit.nl 7 months ago
“With great claims come great responsibility”
That guy from Spiderman, probably
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This guy?
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yesman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Where is the extraordinary claim? Pigs have been unmasking bitcoin owners for years. And the tools they use wouldn’t be out of reach for an amateur detective or journalist.
There are laws and regulations to keep people out of your Visa statement, but the bitcoin ledger is pubic for anybody who cares to look.
frezik@midwest.social 7 months ago
I hate how this phrase has been abused so much. There’s nothing particularly extraordinary here–we’re not talking about bigfoot or aliens–and the whole point of a documentary like this is to lay out evidence.