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by toby- 5mo ago
Bitcoin wasn't anything extraordinarily revolutionary; it built upon others' work over decades of collaborative progress, and introduced few truly novel ideas. Very impressive work by all means, but it didn't require genius-l
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by toby- 5mo ago
It's common for older writers to insert two spaces after a full-stop. In fact, go through the cypherpunk mailing list (and many others) and you'll see it was the norm. As for Satoshi being British, he used predominantly British En
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by toby- 5mo ago
Reality is seldom as fun as people's theories.
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by toby- 5mo ago
We also "know" it's Hal Finney, James A. Donald, Elon Musk, Paul Le Roux, Adam Back, ...
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by toby- 5mo ago
Or he doesn't have the keys or never owned the wallets attributed to him.
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by toby- 5mo ago
People love a mystery. And people love to solve mysteries. Don't look for any deeper motivation than that.
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by toby- 5mo ago
The British English could be a misdirection. Satoshi was always quite inconsistent, sometimes using US spellings ('color', 'check', 'optimize'). One that always stood out to me was his use of 'gotten'
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by toby- 5mo ago
The early Bitcoin client could send Bitcoins to an IP address. That's all he meant, no?
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by toby- 5mo ago
Or he just lost the keys. Or the analysis is wrong and those aren't his wallets; it was never definitive.
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by toby- 5mo ago
> Among people who try to guess Satoshi's identity, there is also a surprising bias toward fame or at least well-known people. Very true. Every time I see people seriously propose Elon Musk or Paul Le Roux or some other flashy/
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by toby- 5mo ago
The hyphenating patterns are particularly curious, to me. Some supposed idiosyncrasies ('bugfix', for example) are just standard renderings amongst programmers/tech types; using those as evidence somewhat betrays the author&#
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by toby- 5mo ago
> I wonder, based on the large number of distinct hyphenation errors, whether Satoshi is even from the UK or the US. How many native English speakers are truly familiar with hyphenating compound nouns and adjectives? I'd say a major
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by toby- 8mo ago
My understanding is that a company's location is largely irrelevant; a company becomes subject to the GDPR when they handle EU citizens' data (or UK GDPR when it's UK citizens), and the EU/UK will still try to fine compa
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by toby- 2y ago
Agreed – you can never truly be completely "safe", but Tor remains the most privacy-preserving tool we've got. When people say they're distrustful of Tor (for various reasons) to the extent they refuse to use it, they se
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by toby- 2y ago
Fair enough. Was just curious. :)
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by toby- 2y ago
It's true that a majority is from the US government through various funding schemes and grants. They're very transparent about their funding and ongoing efforts to diversify. But a little over half coming from US government source
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by toby- 2y ago
Wait until you learn about the creation of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Better disconnect.
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by toby- 2y ago
So was the Internet at DARPA (or its modern foundation). And the WWW at CERN. Tor's development team aren't on the payroll of the US gov't, and their funding comes from many sources. If having received funding from a governme
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by toby- 2y ago
Timing attacks are a well-known weakness. There's a lot of research into timing attacks and proposed countermeasures. Also, it's just Tor – not 'TOR'. >Note: even though it originally came from an acronym, Tor is not
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by toby- 2y ago
We have a rough timeframe: "To the best of our knowledge, the attacks happened between 2019–2021." The hidden service targeted[0] had completely ceased to exist by April 2021, so that time range makes sense. [0]: https:/&#x2
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by toby- 2y ago
Why wouldn't you trust Tor? Do you mean you wouldn't trust it at all, or wouldn't trust it completely?
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by toby- 2y ago
Yes. Why wouldn't it be? The fact that adversaries need to rely on zero-days, or people running massively outdated and unsupported software, strongly suggests the network is safe and robust.
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by toby- 2y ago
It isn't a self-signed cert.
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by toby- 2y ago
>More than 1/3 of the Tor servers are run by US Federal Govt Source? People repeat this claim and nobody every provides evidence.
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by toby- 3y ago
They may not have heard of Gnutella, the network, but they may be familiar with some of the software that supports it: LimeWire, Shareaza, BearShare, WireShare, FrostWire, iMesh, and probably others I'm forgetting.
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by toby- 3y ago
The article does mention Knuth, the author of three of the books you mention.
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by toby- 3y ago
It at least gives you an idea of where might be fruitful to begin your investigation...
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by toby- 3y ago
Where are you that it's "next to impossible"? That really surprises me. I'm in the UK, and you can walk into any Post Office, WHSmith, bookshop, most newsagents, etc., and pick up maps of the local area or country, usual
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by toby- 3y ago
Eminently.
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by toby- 3y ago
I believe they meant SSI, which is Spectral Similarity Index. https://www.oscars.org/science-technology/projects/spectral-...

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