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?
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.
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.
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."
...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/
"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?
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My guess is that a request for bitcoin donations to "his" foundation is forthcoming.
[+] [-] kbumsik|7 years ago|reply
[1]: http://nakamotofamilyfoundation.org/duality.pdf
[2]: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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[+] [-] soulchild37|7 years ago|reply
> 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?
[+] [-] dvfjsdhgfv|7 years ago|reply
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.
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[+] [-] davidkuhta|7 years ago|reply
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honne_and_tatemae
[+] [-] rhema|7 years ago|reply
It's a "don't forget to drink your ovaltine" puzzle.
[+] [-] jek0|7 years ago|reply
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...
[+] [-] jek0|7 years ago|reply
"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"
[+] [-] kthejoker2|7 years ago|reply
Any data to support or refute this casual observation?
[+] [-] foota|7 years ago|reply
That would be more like "popular articles that get flagged" but that's probably what you wanted anyway.
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