Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?
And does the identity of Bitcoin's creator really matter for the future of this 'fatherless' cryptocurrency?
This week, both Wired and Gizmodo published detailed investigations into the identity of Bitcoin's mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Both posited that an eccentric Australian entrepreneur and bitcoin expert named Craig Steven Wright is the real Nakamoto.
After releasing the cryptocurrency's code in 2009, Nakamoto disappeared, allegedly resurfacing only briefly in 2014 to deny the validity of a previous investigative report by Newsweek. The most recent investigations were also almost immediately cast into doubt by Vice Motherboard in a technical breakdown of Nakamoto's alleged cryptographic keys.
Whatever the true identity of Bitcoin's founder, and despite occasional entreaties by developers and users for the creator to return and give guidance as to how the cryptocurrency should evolve, Bitcoin is now controlled in an entirely distributed manner—it is "fatherless" by design. The increasingly vitriolic internal debates among the Bitcoin crowd about block size and the future of the currency will have to be resolved by consensus, not by appealing to an individual who went to great lengths to prevent it from having any centralized authority.
Watch Reason TV's interview with Xapo's Wences Casares below, in which he clarifies the current debate over Bitcoin's future and discusses why he believes that the cryptocurrency "may change the world more than the Internet did."
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No. And that is the point. Now I dont have to read the article, right?
The video is worth watching imo.
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This is why ISIS hates us, dick.
I am not a fan of ISIS so I am okay with that. That’s right, I do not like ISIS.
Don’t marginalize their shared experiences!
Don’t share their marginalized experience..
Don’t experience their marginalized shares.
Don’t put margarine on their baguettes.
Don’t sandbag their peregrine falcons
Manganese sharia exponential!
Why would anybody not want a hard fork? It’s a useless utensil otherwise.
BitCoin used to get money out of China
This guy just picked a Japanese name because he knows Asians are good at math.
Lacist.
You were on top of this one: Homeland Security deployed hi-tech spy plane which scoops up tens of thousands of phone calls at one time above San Bernardino for days after massacre
Yeah, I was feeding that to a reporter for Vice, and he dropped the ball. Oh, well.
He is the brother of Keyser S?ze
Didn’t that guy invent sim tower or something?
There’s been three-day conference (Dec 10-12) in Rome called “Under Caesar’s sword” – Christians of all denominations coming together to discuss anti-Christian persecution throughout the world.
“”Middle Eastern Christians have been forgotten, abandoned, even betrayed by the Western countries,” said Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III Younan….
“Bishop Anba Angaelos, leader of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, called the world “not to be desensitized to the point at which we’re okay with people being killed.”…
“Angaelos referred to the thousands of Christians from the Middle East and Africa currently fleeing their countries in rubber boats across the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, in what’s been labeled as the worst refugee crisis on the Old Continent since the Second World War….
“David Saperstein, the US International Religious Freedom Envoy, saw a ray of hope in Pope Francis. Saperstein defined Francis as “the most influential pope of the last century” and praised his outspokenness on anti-Christian persecution.”
Sounds more interesting than a conference on cooling down the world with a bunch of hot air.
And Rome is just as good as Paris as a junket.
What do you think, Reason? Would it not have been better to send someone to this conference rather than the hot-air one?
(I find these stories by checking Google News in search of stuff to troll you guys with – it’s that easy.)
Oh be nice, Notorious. There’s been a gay article and an environmental one. The poor dears are already scrambling to hide from the mind-control beams being sent from George Soros’ Illuminati Moon Base. Why work them up over borders as well?
No one cares.
That’s funny, in the “gay article” they quoted not only David Boaz, but Andrew Sullivan, in support of religious freedom.
So they care about the *topic,* I suppose the question is whether they care about it abroad, or only in the US.
Oh, look, Sullivan opposes foreign burka bans in blog posts here and here.
Who knew Andrew Sullivan, of all people, was a Sky Daddy fanatic fundemantalist?
(for the first link, scroll down to the second post)
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Giraffes live to 25. Watch out dude.
Satoshi Nakamoto doesn’t sound like “John Galt”. Too many syllables.
Check your monosyllabic anglophone privilege.
Lets roll with it dude, I mean like seriously.
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