[Cryptography] A Thought Experiment: Proof of Satoshi

[Stephan Kinsella]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:39 PM Osman Kuzucu <bizbucaliyiz at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> *Gönderen:* bit <bit at ungeared.com> adına cryptography
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> *Konu:* [Cryptography] A Thought Experiment: Proof of Satoshi
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>
> Since I don’t believe that a cryptographic signature or a transfer would
> constitute definitive proof (let me clarify my position, I do believe that
> such actions would present a very strong claim, just not bulletproof), what
> would?  Let’s have a thought experiment, we are approached by X who claims
> to be Satoshi, privately they have presented us with convincing enough
> evidence to take them seriously and now, they are asking our advice on how
> to reveal themselves to the world without recreating Craig Wright’s ensued
> bedlam?
>
>  What do we know about satoshi? His e-mail was hacked, and other social
> media account of his also could be hacked too. You mentioned that the
> cryptographic signature can't be bulletproof too, so what else would be?
> Since we don't know anything about who he was, or he didn't have any
> witnesses at the time he deployed Bitcoin (who could verify his identity)
> and no one came forward so far, I believe at this point we can't take
> anything as a bulletproof.
>

Maybe testimony from a credible contemporaneous witness would be
believable.

>
> Also, the chances of his cryptographic keys getting leaked is less than
> someone impersonating his writing style to be claimed as Satoshi. I believe
> now there is no bulletproof way of knowing who they were. Only exception
> could be if he didn't use a VPN, the IP logs of the first bitcoin node
> could be retrieved or maybe some logs on the bitcointalk could be searched
> from the ISP to reveal his identity.
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