[Cryptography] NYT on Nick Szabo and Bitcoin

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:

> On 5/17/15 at 9:07 AM, jya at pipeline.com (John Young) wrote:
>
>  <http://t.co/2zgTpKDPaa>
>> nytimes.com/2015/05/17/business/decoding-the-enigma-of-satoshi-nakamoto-and-
>> the-birth-of-bitcoin.html
>>
>> Those around cypherpunks 1993-1998 will recall Szabo's emails on
>> bitcoin early precursors along with Adam Back, Hal Finney, Tim May,
>> Wei Dai, Lucky Green, Hettinga, many more burgeoning F-Cs. NYT
>> piece credits cpunks as subversive birther, now being hyper-monetized
>> by arch-cryptoanarchist Goldman Sachs and many more centralists.
>>
>> Szabo denies being Satoshi, but ... others rush to fill the gap
>>
>
> I think I'll credit Hal Finney. At least he's safe from any government
> retaliation.
>

My concern would not be government retaliation but the risk of kidnapping,
extortion etc. by folk wanting to get their hands on the reputed $1 billion
in bitcoin Satoshi stashed away in the early days.
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