Intriguingly, as the date for the airing of the documentary has drawn near, a number of high-value wallets from the “Satoshi era” have become active for the first time since 2009.
Watch geraldo rivera, as he finds out what’s in Capone’s safe!
(Yes, I’m old)
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.
What service did they provide to humanity, one more speculative asset but that also contributes to global warming?
Allowed people to buy drugs online
How about sound money that works at the speed of information, unlike gold, and can replace our banking system and all the fossil fuels needed to run it?
Bitcoin isn’t that.
True, it’s not private and has too low throughput for transactions per second to be used as day-to-day currency, but something like Monero intends to solve both of those things. There are actually people accepting Monero as a day-to-day currency and living off of it, including myself.
Yeah but that’s not Bitcoin tho
They don’t know. and the documentary will be bigfoot level speculation.
That’s the twist. It was actually ₿igfoot who invented ₿itcoin, don’t you see?
Did I miss it, or did the article not tell you who it (supposedly) is?
I read on another lemmy post that the movie is from a Qanon personality. So it’s unlikely to be fettered by reality.
Cullen Hoback directed another HBO miniseries documentary about QAnon. He’s not a Q weirdo himself.
Or it was likely not a single individual, but a government contractor. How else could a compartmentalized secret remain so for this long?
A single individual is the most likely way to keep a secret compartmentalized.
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
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. Nothing short of that would be believable by the crypto nerds.
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.
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.
That’s… that’s a Pornhub category right? “Watching people watching porn” has got to be a tab on that site. It’s sounds too much like a kink to not be a kink.
