It seems more likely to me that the ning account was compromised, but this is fun/interesting nonetheless.<p>For example, reading through his initial launch post is kind of fun:<p><a href="http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source?xg_source=activity" rel="nofollow">http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...</a><p>> I've developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It's completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust. Give it a try, or take a look at the screenshots and design paper: ...
To give people a heads up. There has been a huge amount of drama in the Bitcoin space, and this is related to the individual known as Craig Wright.<p>Craig Wright made a bunch of claims a couple years ago, that he was Satoshi. He released a bunch of "proof" that was proven false.<p>Recently, he created a new crypto coin callee bitcoin Satoshi's Vision.<p>This new post is almost certainly another fake attempt by Craig to claim that he is Satoshi.
The only way someone can prove they're the "real" satoshi (note: Craig Wright is NOT satoshi, he's a fraud), is to use a known-only-to-satoshi private key to move some arbitrary amount of coin from a very early wallet to a new wallet.
This is interesting because Iv'e had countless discussions with Bitcoin Maxamilsits who assume that all of Satoshi's coins are never moving and that he's gone forever.
Since we are throwing out random theories, I feel fairly confident that Satoshi Nakamoto lives on the East Coast of the United States and is unlikely to ever touch any of his previously used accounts.
Very interesting that for a website/forum operated by people with a high degree of technical skill, I see no https (TLS1.2) anywhere. All plain http.
Maybe Satoshi is a Japanese-Brazilian? (Or -Peruvian, -Uruguayan, etc.) Brazil has some pretty good coders (cf. Lua) who might often find themselves with nothing to do (poor job market) and who have direct experience with the downsides of capital controls (protectionism), plenty of whom are of Japanese descent and who could get away with pretending to be Japanese to throw people off.
Have you read the Bitcoin Origins story by Phil "Scronty" Wilson?<p><a href="http://vu.hn/bitcoin%20origins.html" rel="nofollow">http://vu.hn/bitcoin%20origins.html</a><p>In it he claims that the Satoshi handle was actually shared by him, Craig Wright and Dave Kleiman, and they created Bitcoin together.
This all looks really fake. Plus, there's incentive to fake something like this, because of Satoshi Nakamoto's fame, elusive nature, and lack of identity ownership.
It is exceedingly likely that if Satoshi was not Hal Finney, s/he has probably been somewhat active (under a non-Satoshi nym, obviously) this whole time.
considering this come when bitcoin it's falling for months and someone wanna bring media attention to bitcoin and push price higher i am certain it's hack, just look for the motivation
Also interesting: <a href="https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-November/043904.html" rel="nofollow">https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-November...</a><p>That's from 2018-11-28, before the ning post.
These question marks after statements (or half sentence questions) really need to stop - I was hoping hacker news wouldn't slide into the lazy terrible internet grammar trends.