I imagine there’s some backstory here or something I’m missing… does anyone know who controls that account?
Today’s tweet: https://twitter.com/satoshi/status/1708886029636137256
1406 sats \ 3 replies \ @nerd2ninja 2 Oct 2023
I would guess they're pretexting for various methods for putting shitcoins on Bitcoin. As much as I wish this were about something useful (in which case they should have just posted about the useful thing), it normally is not.
https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/pretexting
"Pretexting is a tactic attackers use and involves creating scenarios that increase the success rate of a future social engineering attack."
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr OP 2 Oct 2023
do you have a guess who might be operating it?
a few people on twitter said this account was locked in 2018, but i don’t remember hearing about it then, nor do i know who the past owner(s) were.
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258 sats \ 1 reply \ @nerd2ninja 2 Oct 2023
I have no idea. I'm not even a twitter user
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438 sats \ 0 replies \ @ryu 2 Oct 2023
Community Notes are claiming Craig Wright is behind it, but too many of the 2018 posts would be anti-CSW in its messaging.
Might be a Bitcoiner who got lucky getting the username for lots of money.
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568 sats \ 0 replies \ @0245bdaef2 2 Oct 2023
Fucking Elon controls that account. No matter who runs it now, Elon owns the land and all houses on it.
Ignore anything that happens on X; it’s all a lie.
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193 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zepasta 3 Oct 2023
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 2 Oct 2023
Twitter says the account was created in 2018, but with a handle like @satoshi I'm assuming it's much older?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 3 Oct 2023
It appears that this account was created in 2007, one year after Twitter started. However, this means nothing.
Having access to this account (or buying it later) means zero.
Scammers can have very wealthy friends/accomplices too.
Proving you're Satoshi and that you've his private keys means everything.
Get your BS detector at the ready.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joswilliams 3 Oct 2023 outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.