I read a few years back a report that the DoD had unmasked him via stylometry (i.e. matched his writing style to forum posts).
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“Finney died in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 28, 2014 as a result of complications of ALS, and was cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.”
replyHmm, this guy is going to be woken up in a few decades, either one of the richest people in the world or one of most disappointed.
imho it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo
replyInitials match too ;)
Was it sourceforge or ThinkGeek that had the code snippets?
replyThat was a throw-away name, and "he" was fabricated as part of an Nvidia demand-stimulation black op.
replyYou don't go from being an obscure video card outfit to the #1 most valuable company on the planet by being too hesitant or dim to really get creative.
This is one of the best conspiracies I've ever heard...
replyIt does provide an explanation as to why Satoshi’s wallets have gone untouched (besides him being dead). $70B ain’t that much compared to a $5T market cap.
reply"Conspiracy" requires an unlawful or wrongful purpose. Please assume that the op was run from a jurisdiction where using a pseudonym on the internet was not illegal, and various sorts of influencer and meme marketing were well-accepted practices.
replyReally, compared to an animated tiger telling kids that sugar-laden Frosted Flakes(tm) are "Great!", Task Peppermint was positively benevolent.
Do you really believe it?
replyAlready determined, but yes frontier models will eventually identify them confidently
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