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Musk might deny it for basically every year from 2008 up to when Bitcoin reached some level of success, for the integrity of the currency, and to avoid entangle
by sahil50 5y ago
Musk might deny it for basically every year from 2008 up to when Bitcoin reached some level of success, for the integrity of the currency, and to avoid entanglement with aggressive regulators who don't understand the possibilities for good (see the fate of the E-gold founder) (luckily the atmosphere has changed with Vitalik Buterin publicly inventing Ethereum and Billy Markus publicly inventing Dogecoin). Let's say that from 2008-2013 (2013 is the release date of Dogecoin) there was sufficient reason to deny.
Then onwards, Musk might continue denying because priorities are SpaceX and Tesla. This reason might essentially continue on to the present. So this explains the range 2013-2022.
Now in the present, what can change the situation is sufficient public knowledge that Musk invented Bitcoin and sufficient public will that asks Musk to take credit, with the understanding that taking credit for Bitcoin will unify the positive perception of Satoshi with Musk, and accelerate time to civ on Mars.
The evidence is now beyond reasonable doubt that Musk invented Bitcoin. Capability. Motivation. Linguistics. Plus the extraordinarily specific commonalities. C++ proficiency. Location in Van Nuys, Los Angeles. Fulfilling the Exact Paypal Dream.
For a quick rebuttal of the other candidates, Nick Szabo doesn't seem to code in C++, Len Sassaman was sincerely dismissive of Bitcoin, Hal Finney was not playing games emailing himself, and Craig Wright is what you say he is.
- smoldesu 5y ago> The evidence is now beyond reasonable doubt that Musk invented Bitcoin. That's an awfully large bite to take out of a nothingburger, but I wish you luck? Moreover, I mostly hope you don't have any money riding on this guess...
- sahil50 5y agoThe meta-talk is not how to make progress. Engage with the actual points. The actual points in the Medium post and the Google Doc.
- smoldesu 5y agoYou have no actual points. Everything that you have listed so far is pure conjecture, not hard evidence.
- sahil50 5y agoFalse! C++ proficiency. Location in Van Nuys, Los Angeles. Are hard evidence. Hacker News crowd, get smarter! You guys are like clueless about so much of life! Change this by taking the perspective of people who simultaneously build things and coordinate people!
- smoldesu 5y agoThere are hundreds of people who know C++, live on the west coast and talk like a pompous idiot. Elon Musk is one candidate of hundreds. You should do some statistics research and realize that just because one celebrity matches your description doesn't mean that they're the sole candidate for your search. I'd argue that you're acting pretty clueless here, especially since Elon himself has denied creation of the spec. Without any further evidence, you'd need something utterly damning to make people believe you. There are real ways that you can prove that you built Bitcoin; you can step forward with keys to the wallet with the genesis block or you can render passwords to any of the accounts Satoshi used online. Not only has Elon Musk done neither of those things, he's outright told people that he didn't build it when there was every incentive in the world to acknowledge himself as Satoshi. If anything, I can see why all these Bitcoin accusers never got anywhere as SpaceX employees. Rocket science doesn't make progress with guesswork...