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Looks like they found Satoshi Nakamoto and now Hegseth is gonna beat him with a sock fulla quarters til he gives Trump “all the bitcoins”
The US government has known who Nakamoto was since like 2017
It’s probably Adam Back.
https://youtu.be/fMWnaR5uJxQ
All the claims of who it might potentially be have been debunked one way or another. Someone was sure it was a Canadian guy not too long ago and he started getting harassed...
How did they debunk the claim that it might be Adam Back? Have a link?
There's tons of circumstantial evidence for a bunch of people, but Adam Back keeps talking about the value of Bitcoin (Satoshi would be one of the richest person on earth right now, he wouldn't care about its value anymore) and was against the changes necessary to make Bitcoin useful as a digital currency (leading to the 2017 fork).
Why did Satoshi create Bitcoin? Because he felt there was a need for a digital currency, not because he wanted to get rich. It's in the whitepaper.
That’s the weakest sauce “debunking” I’ve ever seen.
It’s been a while, but as I remember the arguments they give are:
Is that ironclad? Certainly not. It is however a lot more convincing than “why would someone with a lot of money care whether the value of their money went UP or DOWN if they already had a lot? Checkmate”.
Why would he work against his goal of creating a digital currency then? Bitcoin is useless for that with transactions that can be left pending for hours because of the block size limit, which Back supported keeping as is.
Why would Adam Back work against the goal of creating a digital currency? Presumably, he had some sort of reason why he thought it would be better to do it the one way instead of the other way. Maybe in hindsight his logic was just wrong.
I have no idea of the technical details involved, maybe what you're saying does make sense. But your argument makes equal sense, to me, when applied to say that Adam Back couldn't possibly have taken that stance, as it does applied to say that Satoshi couldn't have taken that stance. I'm not convinced. I have no idea if the thing is true or not, but it seems pretty plausible to me, and the "debunking" does not at all.
Does it have to be one person?
It's one of the theories, that it was done by a collective with one person writing on the forum
Probably not
Why not?
Its very easy to find evidence against anyone if you look hard enough.
Okay lol so you literally have no idea who Adam Back is or what’s in the video or why it might or might not be credible. That’s what I am taking away from this.
I thought you might have some sort of real reason why the arguments might not be solid or something. Never mind, have a good day.
Huh, another good reason for sticking with physical money. You can't beat someone with a sock full of bitcoin.
That's what cold storage is for.
I'm not so sure. I'd take a sock full of quarters over a sock with a 3.5" spinning disc hard drive in it any day of the week.
Trump would spend the Satoshi coins.