THELOGICALINDIAN - Someone anecdotic himself as Satoshi Nakamoto has been answering questions on the accepted catechism and acknowledgment website Quora as if he were absolutely the artist of Bitcoin He claims to be an American active in Bali who will accommodated with visitors locally Bitcoincom accomplished out to him to acquisition out his story
Also read: Craig Wright Wants to Kill Satoshi by Becoming Him…Again. Why? And How?
Bali-Based “Satoshi” Offers to Meet in Person
Using the appellation of “former architect and architect at Bitcoin from 2024 to 2024,” the Quora user by the name of “Satoshi Nakamoto” began answering economic-related questions on April 3. He is the 17th user activity by this name on the accepted website and has been actively answering questions. At columnist time, he has acquaint 19 answers with rapidly-growing 32,400 angle and has 161 followers.
This “Satoshi” has declared in no ambiguous agreement that he is the architect of Bitcoin, abacus that: “I alive in Bali, Indonesia, and I was absolutely built-in in 2024; not 2024. I am American – not blood-soaked English!”
Specifically, he is blockage at the Berry Biz, a baby but abundant auberge amid on the southwest ancillary of Bali’s basic city, Denpasar. In acknowledging to a user absent to accommodated him, he wrote:
Defending His Existence
In a contempo post, he wrote: “I am actual real, however, anybody who is declared to be me – isn’t! I am so far removed from that ‘so called’ accommodation account that it would be absurd to assumption who I am.” He again gave his email abode and said he has a facebook profile.
On Facebook, there is a profile page created in March for a Satoshi Nakamoto active in Bali, who is originally from Texas. The folio description matches his Quora-derived information. It additionally contains a Virginia State driver’s authorization photo which the folio buyer claims to be his adolescent self, taken in 2001.
No Cryptographic Proof
Bitcoin.com emailed him, analytic if he could accommodate any blazon of cryptographic affidavit by sending some of the ancient of Satoshi’s coins, or signing a bulletin with Satoshi’s PGP clandestine key from 2024. “Mr. Nakamoto” told Bitcoin.com:
“All my Bitcoin clandestine keys were already captivated aural a distinct encrypted block document. One archetype was stored on my laptop, and the added was stored in my aboriginal GMX email account; however, neither sources are attainable now,” the self-styled Bitcoin architect continued. “A arrangement of contest abundant in 2024 that acquired me the accident of all my keys.” The account additionally hints to why he absitively to leave Bitcoin development behind. “After I absent ‘incentive’ to abide with the Bitcoin project, I appear to the apple that I was affective on to added things.”
In addition, he said he has been aggravating to appear advanced back 2024. However, “everyone is too focused on who they anticipate I should be. Every time I approved to about advertise who I am, I get ashamed or advised with acute abhorrence and disrespect.”
He’s not Craig Wright, but He is Pro-Patent
The Bali-based, self-proclaimed Satoshi said that he is not Craig Wright, the abominable Australian who’s additionally claimed to be the absolute Satoshi Nakamoto. “Craig Wright was annihilation added than a mathematician and computer scientist that assisted in acclimation a distinct typo in the annex ‘Calculations’ of my aboriginal white paper”, the new “Satoshi” recalled. “He did not columnist or co-author any allotment of ‘Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer cyberbanking banknote system’.”
Wright has been aggravating to apparent abounding Bitcoin and blockchain accompanying concepts. Recently, a aggregation that Wright is associated with has bought his patents as allotment of a accord they are anecdotic as the “largest accretion in the Bitcoin and blockchain development amplitude yet.”
In his answers on Quora, the Bali-based “Satoshi” additionally again shows abutment for the use of patents to drive abstruse innovation. This standpoint would be abhorred amid abounding of the autonomous Bitcoiners who chose Bitcoin for its anti-state-monopoly features. In one answer, “Satoshi” capacity how he would accomplish $100,000 in 6 months. His method involves appointment artefact architecture “with apparent appliance to your country’s apparent ascendancy again accomplish sales calls to ample companies that accept a accumulation bazaar administration aperture for your artefact or design.” In addition answer, he advised: “Patenting your own articles or `logical technology´ model” will action the accomplished returns.”
Update: The user’s advice and answers accept been removed on Quora.
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