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Mysterious Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is this Australian guy worth $450m
Bitcoin creator finally shows his face
It amazes me that cards with magstripe are still being issued. I have never needed to use magnet instead of chip despite having traveled quite a bit. I used to ask my bank to disable magstripe on my cards, but now they changed this to the default option for all new cards.
Yes, because the comment refers to "stories like these", and not only the specific story in question. Also, what makes you think the author is male?
Dan as mentioned upthread, if you think my repeated contact with AirBnB over a year, and the impression I've had as a result, isn't substantive, could you explain why or email me if you prefer?

I've been on Startup News / Hacker News for eight years, so I'm pretty familiar with the site.
My perception might be skewed, of course. In the broad range of practical areas I worked in I rarely came across any data-driven papers. Mind giving some examples?
> ...On the other hand, the screenshots are from Windows. Windows! Are we really to believe Satoshi uses Windows?

Yes. This is the one part of the whole story that doesn't smell. The first version of Bitcoin was windows-only.
Other than the TI calculator firmware signing keys and alice@example.com, do any of them have valid self-signatures?
Yeah, the "They had torpedo factories there" argument is a little silly from an argument standpoint. The intent of the atomic bombs was to show that Japan's strategy of "Make the cost of invasion too high to stomach" was becoming less and less viable.

They showed this intent by indiscriminately slaughtering civilians and military personnel.

Personally, I'm okay with it, mostly because the alternative was invasion, which would have caused a million American casualties and wiped Japan off the face of the map. That would have been unpleasant.
I wrote a comment saying "This is sketchy as fuck" and was forced to delete it given the number of downvotes. Now that this has been debunked guess who was right..
Will the US allow something like that happen? The future is developing towards hardware backdoors in all processors and this would make it really hard to implement such system. There is no way this is going to happen.
If you're using a given key daily, yeah, it's not a big hoop. But I imagine Satoshi having his key hidden on an offline computer right now, hidden securely. Taking it out of vault must be a lot of effort.
Are you telling me that the inventor of bitcoin has:

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on his blog?
You might find this interesting:

https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=ev52-ev54
> He was forced to. He doesn't want to be public, and he wishes he didn't have to be.

What evidence is there for this?
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Are you beginning to see the problem here? A “normal” developer is screwed. You need to be pretty large (“reasonably sized”) and have good contacts at Apple (which is nowhere near as easy as you think it is, and basically impossible for most non-US developers) to even have a chance to have such things fixed.
I've never used pandoc, but I was told that tracked changes were do doable. I see that pandoc converts them from/to special markup which includes the author, etc. It sounds like receiving Word documents with tracked changes is not a problem, but you would need a special tool to turn a diff into a document marked up with your changes when you want to send it back as a Word doc (similar to latexdiff).
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I remember reading that they don't actually delete anything, even if served DMCA notices --- they just remove access to it, with the justification being that laws may change and one day allow access again. Makes sense for an archive, I guess.
Use tweetbot instead of twitter. It's so much better in every way.
Can you explain why the signature matching one in the blockchain disproves the theory?

I imagine the signature must also be somehow related to his private/public key pair otherwise his blog is just junk cryptography and would have been easily debunked anyway?
When I started to program in C I used "n" for the longest time, simple because it was quicker on to type on my first computer; "Next N" was a quick two taps on the N key.
Guess the platform :-)
So either Gavin knew or didn't. As a core dev I am not sure which is worse.
The weird part is they do understand this (they pitch periscope as "live" all the time).

Seems really strange that when they get to their main product, they forget about all that.
The most interesting part of the story:

But we know almost nothing about their daily lives, in part because most of their writing was recorded on perishable objects like cloth or wax tablets.

Fast Forward 2800 years. What of our Dropbox files, helium filled hard drives, USB thumb drives, DVD-R discs, LTO tapes, etc will survive? Nothing. Because who will be copying all those bits every 5 years into the next latest trend in storage? Nobody.

So all of the insights recorded in the ancient Hacker News community forum will be lost to antiquity. :)

Edit: if perchance this post survives for 2800 years: Hi!
Generally if you are polite and articulate WHY you are suspicious, people will cut you more slack.

I'm very reluctant to believe Craig Wright is Satoshi, but didn't have firm evidence (because he hadn't released info). Now that it appears the "signature of message" is just a signature from something else, it looks like he's actively a fraud, but I haven't validated it myself.

(The back-dated PGP key and alternate subkey from earlier was super sketch, but could have been someone else.)

You're probably right.
That's what he signed.
Craig Wright's signature is worthless
Turns out Craig is still a fraud. He searched the blockchain for interesting texts signed by Satoshi and then claimed one was proof that he was Satoshi. The Sartre quote has been hanging out on the blockchain for years.
Right to live where you work seems to be a good one. The problem with AirBNB isn't about too many people living in an area like SF, it's about local population being displaced in favor of richer, temporary visitors.

It's certainly a nice thing to be able to travel and visit other cultures and countries. But the advent of massive international transportation combined with few tourism hotspots has created a tourism industry that can outprice locals, and thus destroy the cultures that created the artefacts they show to tourists.
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> Howells is making the assumption it was a school district with no evidence whatsoever.

You are making an assumption that he has no evidence with no evidence whatsoever.

Apple provides educational discounts (if you allow it in your app’s iTC settings). He could almost certainly tell the purchase was from a school simply by dividing the reported revenue by the number of sold copies and comparing it with their regular price in the (also visible in the report) country.
That's an interesting position.

The question is: why creating this hoax in the first place? If anything, the price of bitcoin has been negatively impacted by this.

http://www.coindesk.com/price/

What would it be one's motivation behind this?
Here is the full document: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/12/17/sartre-on-the-nob...

but since getting a single piece of whitespace wrong would throw the hash off completely, that isn't terribly useful. Though it seems that it should be possible to brute force every reasonable permutation of formatting for the article and find one whose hash matches the one he provided, if it's the real source. The search space of "documents within a string edit distance of N" is probably not too large.
Alcor's competence, unfortunately, leaves a little to be desired. http://thebaffler.com/salvos/everybody-freeze-pein
Eeyup. A 2009 version is archived at https://erdgeist.org/cvsweb/Fefe/blog/blog.c

The best part is that where stores his posts. SQL? Nope. NoSQL? Nope. Plain text files? Nope. Fucking LDAP. [1]

[1] Source: http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a8d61c27
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Except no, that's not what he signed. Have you checked it before saying so?
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It seems bizarre a Californian senator would want to introduce a bill that hurts one of the most important industries in her state. It would be like a West Virginian senator introducing an anti-coal mining bill.
What other experiences, non C based, will make you a better C programmer too ? ADA, ML, Forth ? some other academic domain ?
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Looks like the proof is not valid and does not prove Wright is Satoshi [1].

So the question becomes what is Wright trying to do by providing fake proofs?

And I wonder if the press/reporters even bothered to verify the proof or they were caught in the craze to publish breaking news.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hf4xj/creator_of_...
Agreed. That happened in Spain: after the crisis burst the housing bubble, banks and private owner were simply not putting their property in the market to avoid price falling down. I Andalucia, the goverment actually had to pass a law that midly forced people to rent empty flats, because we were at the ridiculous situation where a lot of people were being evicted for not being able to afford rent, yet there were lots of unused space.

So, yeah, more development might help Berlin, but it will be more effective when accompanied by rent camps and strengthening of social housing banks. Otherwise you are just feeding the bubble and exchanging one population by a wealthier one.
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A friend sent me this paper after I told him how I found it strange that Cicadas stay underground for 17 years (a "WTF evolution?" revelation for me), which I learned by watching the recently posted Last Week Tonight web exclusive video [1]. Now that I have the explanation, I find it both obvious and beautiful, kind of like a nice hack, and I think it can be of interest to other HNers :).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5E7cG54VoA
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This is absolutely fake and already debunked, as mentioned on the bitcointalk forums: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1457039.msg14728531#...

The signature Wright posted is a signature from a transaction on the blockchain (and therefore cannot be a signature of a Nobel prize refusal speech or whatever other message he claims): https://blockchain.info/tx/828ef3b079f9c23829c56fe86e85b4a69...

The above tx's scriptSig: 3045022100c12a7d54972f26d14cb311339b5122f8c187417dde1e8efb6841f55c34220ae0022066632c5cd4161efa3a2837764eee9eb84975dd54c2de2865e9752585c53e7cce01

The signature Wright posted:

$ echo 'MEUCIQDBKn1Uly8m0UyzETObUSL4wYdBfd4ejvtoQfVcNCIK4AIgZmMsXNQWHvo6KDd2Tu6euEl13VTC3ihl6XUlhcU+fM4=' | base64 -d | xxd -p
3045022100c12a7d54972f26d14cb311339b5122f8c187417dde1e8efb68
41f55c34220ae0022066632c5cd4161efa3a2837764eee9eb84975dd54c2
de2865e9752585c53e7cce
Ian Grigg: "Satoshi Nakamoto was cryptography's best-kept secret since Enigma"
As some said, OVH has datacenters in Quebec, Canada.
They plan to open several new ones in the coming months in the US (I think California has been officially annouced) and others countries are planned.
They raised several hundreds millons of syndicated loans in 2014/2015, to build additional capacity in North America and Europe.
Rumors[1] of potential asian & australian locations also abound, but no clear sign of it yet.

[1]http://www.nextinpact.com/news/98651-ovh-mise-sur-personnali...
Reposting my other comment:

I think Wright is just a smooth-talking conman with some crypto experience. I'm betting he met Gavin and other (unfortunately, merely "supposed" at this point...) experts in person, talked shop for a while, then took out his laptop and staged verifying the signature of blocks 1 and 9 with dummy commands. (Edit: Gavin actually claimed it was a clean computer, not one that Wright brought. Disregard that.)

The Economist actually states this directly:

>Mr Wright has also demonstrated this verification in person to The Economist—and not just for block 9, but block 1. Such demonstrations can be stage-managed; and information that allows us to go through the verification process independently was provided too late for us to do so fully. Still, as far as we can tell he indeed seems to be in possession of the keys, at least for block 9. This assessment is shared by two bitcoin insiders who have sat through the same demonstration: Jon Matonis, a bitcoin consultant and former director of the Bitcoin Foundation, and Gavin Andresen, Mr Nakamoto’s successor as the lead developer of the cryptocurrency’s software (he has since passed on the baton, but is still contributing to the code).

Relevant bit:

>Such demonstrations can be stage-managed; and information that allows us to go through the verification process independently was provided too late for us to do so fully.

For Gavin's demonstration, he claims Wright validated the signatures on a "clean" computer, with the implication that it could not be staged.

>Part of that time was spent on a careful cryptographic verification of messages signed with keys that only Satoshi should possess. But even before I witnessed the keys signed and then verified on a clean computer that could not have been tampered with, I was reasonably certain I was sitting next to the Father of Bitcoin.

So, either the clean computer wasn't really clean, or Gavin's complicit in the scam, or Wright does have Satoshi's private keys and may be Satoshi.

Either way, why would Satoshi want to prove it yet only demonstrate proof to a few people in private rather than putting a message and signature online for anyone to verify?
You are right I should've elaborated. To me it reeked of conspiracy, it was odd for both Anderson and Matonis to come out with parallel blog posts endorsing this guy without a solid proof. He could've signed the genisis block and be done with it but no they had to go through all this trouble.

Cryptographic proofs speak for themselves, just release them to the public instead of relying on a centralized authority (Anderson and Matonis) to verify them, which is ironic.
'Series of tweets' pretty much break everything anyway. Twitter should discourage them, IMO.
This actually happened last year at their biggest tournament. A well known bug caused several champions to be disabled midway through the tournament. This happens regularly that champions are disabled due to bugs at international events.
I can't actually find the link, but he was some special panelist on a stream last year.. A lot of people were asking who the hell he was, and he was claiming at the time to be a researcher with a heavy involvement with bitcoin, and at the same time either the Australian Federal Police, or Australian Tax Office were raiding his properties looking for damning evidence...

He had taken federal funds for research purposes and miss-appropriated them.

I can't find the original articles, sorry... Here's some links though

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-09/bitcoin-suspected-foun...

http://www.coindesk.com/documents-offer-clues-to-alleged-bit...

https://delimiter.com.au/2015/12/15/lawyer-says-craig-wright...
Gavin, if you are wrong about this ...

I hope you are not but it sure looks like it
I prefer leftism than rightism, because in my mind rightism leads to having your water poison you, Flint-style.

I remember reading an article about Barcelona and how it was actually losing money due to low-budget tourists: the city has to maintain/clean infrastructure for them, but they don't bring much income. Not sure how they tax their bars, but these people would just get wasted and puke in their parks, and the city has to clean up after them.
r/bitcoin is calling bullshit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hflr3/craig_wrigh...
The Bitcoin genesis block includes a newspaper headline from that day to prove that it wasn't constructed earlier ('premined').
https://www.google.com/search?q=This+Tech+Bubble+Is+Bursting
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Signatures are unique to the message that's being signed, otherwise they'd be useless.
In the UK one of our larger train companies is still using pre-hated handheld card terminals they bought from British Airways over 20 years ago on their buffet counters.

Fun fact: They apparently aren't connected to anything, and transactions are processed later, so basically any valid card will go through regardless of funds etc.

The market for shoddy bacon baguette & gin fraud is presumably fairly limited.
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2 differences:

* infinit provides a virtual filesystem that you can use with any other application. At the moment IPFS only has helpers and an api

* infinit's goal is to use the existing infrastructure (your disk, your S3 account, your google drive account, ...) to form a big drive. IPFS lives in its own world, which is great when everybody uses IPFS, but we're not there (yet ?)
"One of the most useful lessons I learned from working at Facebook had nothing to do with technology: Doubt the media. Always doubt the media."

(https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-...)

I'm happy to see that The Economist, at least, has a healthy sense of skepticism.
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Many do. The author probably does, because it doesn't seem like they'd choose "he" as their pronoun.
I'm okay with "i" (like others said, it's a well-known shorthand for "iterator" or "index") but I often use "idx" because it can easily be combined with other words in nested loops (e.g. "rowIdx" and "columnIdx").
"Conservative" != "Hateful". Speaking from experience, some of the most prejudiced people I've had to deal with in my life were my most liberal college professors.
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> Satoshi Nakamoto was cryptography's best-kept secret since Enigma. For more than 6 years the secret was held by a tiny bunch of supporters ring-fencing around the team - for privacy, for safety, and for fear.

> Sometime in summer of 2015 the secret started to spread, and the writing was on the wall. An extortionist and a hacker started attacking, perhaps together, perhaps apart; to add to the woes, Dr. Wright and his companies were engaged in a long harsh bitter battle with the Australian Tax Office.
Thank you for this, I haven't clicked.
Why would a ... let's call him a grey area entrepreneur - try to convince people he's sitting on lots of money? I can think of some reasons.
It's quite different. Still, even if the revenues of big companies are real, and the P/E ratios are in a smaller bubble than in 2000, the problem is that if there's a deflation in the world, the ad revenues will dry up as well.
As a right-leaning, generally-conservative guy, the most organized hate I've gotten on reddit is because I'm a right-leaning, generally-conservative guy rather than being a more-reddit-acceptable left-leaning Sanders-supporting liberal.
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I visited Berlin around 7 years ago. Stayed in a rental apartment for a reasonable price. and AirBnB didn't exist then.
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Satoshi is Satoshi; please leave things be.
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Not to presume which gender OP identifies with, but if you take a look at their GitHub profile, you'd probably come to the conclusion the the writer is not male.

Since the specific context matters to you, would you now suggest the parent of this thread then change the pronoun to "she" instead?
> This is a hoax I think. And also Gavin supporting it is weird.

Is it?
I did create something similar a while back: https://github.com/sp3ctr3/arcanum-server
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Just as well as a backup procedure without a tested restore procedure. You just don't know until you try to restore.
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When we are using Google Chrome WebRTC connection between one point to another point of the world.

Which TCP and UDP ports, port ranges should be allowed for signalling/sdp/media please? (i could not find one answer very clearly stating the ports)
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Modern ARM has load halfword insns too, so you can use those or the 8-bit imm encoding depending on the constant.

For a full 32 bit value prior to movw/movt you'd most likely load it from a constant pool rather than do a 4 insn sequence. (Some 32 bit values can be done with clever choice of 8imm sequences -- there's an algorithm you can use as a compiler to say "given this value can I create it in 3 or less insns?", which is worth the effort if you're targeting a pre-movw ARM cpu.)
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Just as a reminder for people interested in buying JR pass:
1) not all trains all included (fastest Shinkansen Nozomi is not for example)
2) can't be bought in Japan
3) valid for 7/14/21 days from the first use

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That's called a liberal by American terms
Unlikely. He would have used his other accounts or private keys to let us know by now. He tweeted something less than an hour ago.
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The tax fraud doesn't have anything to do with Bitcoin. The top comment explains it more, but it was clear from earlier news about him as well.
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>Unfortunately, chronological order doesn’t scale well.

True, I guess, but what if my feed is already curated, by me. Facebook, for instance is annoying to use, because it can't seem to remember that I just want everything, in chronological order. I don't have a ton a people on Facebook, nor do I care to, but I do want to see everything these people post. It won't amount to more than 30 minutes of content a week anyway.

If you had to enable "curated feed", would you turn it on? For most people, even those who have a large number friends or follow a ton of people/companies, I suspect the answer would be no.
I'm not sure whether I actually care if he is or if he isn't - there's just so much good material in this story: hidden super computers and theology degrees and all sorts of craziness. The only thing that could really improve it would be a link to Paul Le Roux!
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