extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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"With great claims come great responsibility"
That guy from Spiderman, probably
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Not really, all it requires is someone to produce a signed message with one of Satoshi's private keys, which can be easily verified with the public addresses on the blockchain. Whoever produced that message can be proven to possess that private key. Nothing short of that would be believable by the crypto nerds.
If we presume that Satoshi understood that Bitcoin may be valuable one day and kept the keys private, that would mean that the signer really is Satoshi, or one of his associates or heirs Satoshi trusted wih access. Even if that person wasn't actually Satoshi, their word on who it is would be considered authoritative.
Unless it's Craig. Fuck that guy. Nobody believes him.
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Did I miss it, or did the article not tell you who it (supposedly) is?
Guessing this is the one https://www.hbo.com/movies/money-electric-the-bitcoin-mystery
It hasn't released yet it seems, october 8. Though HBO does not seem to claim any of the above, I smell another flop.
Well no, it's an ad for the doc.