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2 possible situations I can think of, based strictly on 'Among their discoveries was a particular transfer to an account controlled by Mr. Ulbricht from another

2 possible situations I can think of, based strictly on 'Among their discoveries was a particular transfer to an account controlled by Mr. Ulbricht from another that had been created in January 2009, during the very earliest days of the bitcoin network, which was set up the previous year.': - the bitcoin wallet, although said to be associated with SN, has changed ownership since its creation in 2009 - SN purchased something from DPR, perhaps something DPR himself was selling on SR, either a legitimate buy or for some other purposes; SN was just a regular customer in this case In the meantime, I'm eagerly awaiting their paper. Ron and Shamir have previously co-authored another bitcoin related paper titled 'Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph'. There's a very interested overview of it in this Gist: https://gist.github.com/jgarzik/3901921 https://gist.github.com/jgarzik/3901921 It appears to have some flaws. I don't know how accurate this statistic is, but the last Gist comment mentions that 22% of bitcoins are held in reused addresses.

dobbsbob 13y ago
Not all the early mined coins were controlled by Satoshi, Hal Finney and other's on the crypto mailing list have many, many coins. Maybe Hal bought some weed According to Bitcoin developers Satoshi hasn't moved any of the coins they know he is/was in control of. Amateur sleuths trying to unmask Satoshi have gone through every piece of public writing and paper he's done, picked out unique phrases and words and tried to match them up to existing mailing list posts, forum posts and white papers with no success. Satoshi slipped in and out of British slang as well, either on purpose for distraction from his real identity or they were 2 people using the same account. He also referenced the Times when mining the first block as proof he had not premined a bunch of coins to run a ponzi/scam further indicating he may of been from the UK. Either way he certainly is content with avoiding the spotlight while Ulbricht loved the fame that came with being DPR.

dobbsbob 13y ago

Not all the early mined coins were controlled by Satoshi, Hal Finney and other's on the crypto mailing list have many, many coins. Maybe Hal bought some weed According to Bitcoin developers Satoshi hasn't moved any of the coins they know he is/was in control of. Amateur sleuths trying to unmask Satoshi have gone through every piece of public writing and paper he's done, picked out unique phrases and words and tried to match them up to existing mailing list posts, forum posts and white papers with no success. Satoshi slipped in and out of British slang as well, either on purpose for distraction from his real identity or they were 2 people using the same account. He also referenced the Times when mining the first block as proof he had not premined a bunch of coins to run a ponzi/scam further indicating he may of been from the UK. Either way he certainly is content with avoiding the spotlight while Ulbricht loved the fame that came with being DPR.