Satoshi Nakamoto Speaks? Bitcoin XT Fork Debate Allegedly Draws Ire of Bitcoin Creator
The demands of the Bitcoin core developer faction for a hard fork to Bitcoin XT have resurfaced. It has been a hot and wild week throughout the Bitcoin community during the hottest month of the year. A non-consensus-based “hard fork” may be fast approaching, with the charge led once again by Bitcoin core developers Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn. You can assume things are beginning to reach “critical mass” in this community debate when Reddit Mods and the Bitcoin creator are speaking directly on the issue. Leading Reddit r/Bitcoin moderator Theymos took some time off and has had to get the....
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Leah McGrath Goodman of Newsweek has published a piece on bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, or more like her quest to find out the man's real identity. Satoshi Nakamoto is the creator of bitcoin, for those unaware. Goodman actually approached (the alleged) Nakamoto to ask some questions regarding bitcoin, but was met with evasive answers: "I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he said to her, according to the piece. "It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection." This man - who almost none of us knew the identity....
Investigations by major tech outlets Wired and Gizmodo may have potentially identified bitcoin's creator. Satoshi Nakamoto, they say, is 44-year-old Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright, who is thought to have created the bitcoin protocol alongside US forensic researcher David Kleiman, now deceased. This, however, is not the first time that major news outlets embark on a quest to decipher the identity of bitcoin's mysterious creator. With Satoshi Nakamoto's identity still unconfirmed, CoinDesk has created a poll to find out exactly what its readership thinks about the most recent....
The story of the hacker who claims to have compromised an email account belonging to Satoshi Nakamoto just got a little stranger. News that Nakamoto's original accounts on GMX.com were compromised ignited community interest in both the identity and whereabouts of the bitcoin creator this weekend. It was then that an email sent to a Bitcoin Talk administrator indicated that an unidentified party had taken over the accounts and threatened to release sensitive information. There now appears to be at least two individuals in control of the email account - one of which may be Nakamoto, VICE....