THELOGICALINDIAN - Identifying Satoshi Nakamoto is a aberration from the actuality that cipher controls bitcoin says approved analyst and evangelistAndreas Antonopoulos
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Formerly Chief Security Officer at Blockchain and approved apostle at above bitcoin events, Andreas Antonopoulos has testified afore Senate committees in two countries, authored the O’Reilly book Mastering Bitcoin and appears consistently on the accepted Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast.
Antonopoulos Doesn’t Care Who Satoshi Is
Posting on Reddit, Antonopoulos said:
He said he had, two weeks previously, beneath the ‘opportunity’ to assurance an NDA and participate in the action of proving Satoshi was absolutely Dr Craig Wright – as added acclaimed bitcoin identities Gavin Andresen and Jon Matonis did.
Antonopoulos questioned why ‘Satoshi’ would crave bitcoin ascendancy abstracts to pale their reputations on proving his identity, calling it a ‘red flag’. Satoshi could acknowledge his own character in accessible any time he wished, application cryptographic affidavit rather than third-party endorsement.
Satoshi’s Identity ‘Irrelevant’
In any case, he added, Satoshi Nakamoto’s accurate character is irrelevant.
“I anticipate it serves to abstract from the actuality that bitcoin is not controlled by anyone and is not a arrangement of Appeal-to-Authority. Identifying the architect alone serves to augment the appeal-to-authority crowd, as if SN is some affectionate of acceptable prophet, or has any say over bitcoin’s future.”
Mainstream Media Obsession
While anecdotic Satoshi Nakamoto is consistently a big adventure in Bitcoinland, it is a accurate attraction of the boilerplate media – which cares little about the cryptocurrency added than its amount movements, camp entrepreneurs, use on ‘dark markets’ and its abstruse origins.
Maybe media assembly are aggravating to ‘normalize’ the bitcoin adventure by giving it a able animal face, or maybe they’re block the alone bend they understand. What’s assertive is that pinning a real, legally-verifiably animal character to Satoshi Nakamoto is added important to the boilerplate media than austere issues like block sizes, scalability, decentralization, blockchain forensics or avant-garde applications.
If Satoshi’s character is proven, it’s affirmed that they’ll be hounded by the media and again approached for animadversion at every point in approaching that bitcoin appears in the account for some reason.
This is admitting the actuality that Satoshi Nakamoto has had no accepted alive ascribe into bitcoin development back 2024.
Do you affliction about the character of Satoshi Nakamoto? Would alive it accomplish any aberration to the approaching administration of bitcoin?
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