<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:39 PM Osman Kuzucu <<a href="mailto:bizbucaliyiz@hotmail.com">bizbucaliyiz@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div id="gmail-m_-9082146695089323435divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>Gönderildi:</b> 21 Ocak 2021 Perşembe 00:16<br>
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<b>Konu:</b> [Cryptography] A Thought Experiment: Proof of Satoshi</font>
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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?
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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. </p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe testimony from a credible contemporaneous witness would be believable. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div>
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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. </p>
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