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70 sats \ 11 replies \ @Lumor 21 Oct 2023 \ on: Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto bitcoin
Why contribute to narrowing down the possibilities of who Satoshi is/was?
Because many people nowadays want something from this...
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So Lopp is lobbing an implicit threat to those protecting the identity of the real Satoshi in order to push the tech in a direction that doesn't too obviously obsolete Casa?
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No. You are looking into the wrong direction.
You are looking where THE NOISE is telling you to look, and not to the right direction.
Is not about Casa here... is about Bitcoin. But I think you are too new into Bitcoin to "detect" all the noise.
That means his article did the right job....
People do not pay attention nowadays to the details and always go where the noise exist.
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I am certainly newer than you in bitcoiner years. But would love to learn more about signal vs noise in this perspective.
Seen Lopp at a conference. He seemed a bit of a dour fellow.. somehow I see you as merrier. 🙂
He's also made cool contributions like steel backup tests. And I don't envy the swatting attack.
You think it's a retaliation on Bitcoin-maxis for all the shit he gets for adding Ethereum support? (That still involves Casa indirectly though, so maybe I'm lost in the noise again).
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Again, don't focus on Lopp... that's not the point.
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Okay, so not Lopp.
Hal was curious about mining and carbon emissions. So he might be used as an argument against PoW..? Naa.. too weak.
Excluding Hal decreases the anonymity-set by 1 and is therefore an attack on Bitcoin. What motivated anyone to spend months attempting this, and then writing about it.. just to milk engagement?
Publishing it now instead of at least waiting a few decades does not indicate the writer coming from the best of hearts. Similarly to how Wikileaks were jeopardizing the project by accepting BTC so soon.
Whoever was behind Satoshi may still be alive, but may have been corrupted or moved on ideologically.. hence Satoshi is as good as dead, and resurrecting him through narrowing down which meatbag hosted him is facilitating attacks.
Hot or cold?
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No. Is just noise, to keep you busy making useless assumptions around this subject.
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I agree content around who Satoshi was/is is at best a distraction (noise) from moving Bitcoin forward. Is that the simple point you were trying to make all along?
Doesn't exactly match "The problem today is businesses wanting to stop Bitcoin from changing in ways that obsolete their business model."