This thread is just full of awesome 
and i had been thinking "if satoshi ever came forward, or died and someone wanted to prove this person was satoshi, how could they?" at this point in time, anyone could impersonate him unless he has a few people he talks to through secure means, but then... how do WE believe them, i mean Really believe them? well i was rummaging through some stuff and found this lil gem, i don't know much about it but thought it was worth sharing since this thread showed up.
check out the last paragraph under "Standard relaying" https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Network#Standard_relaying
the important parts,
"Network alerts are broadcast with alert messages. these contain the entire alert. If a received alert is valid (signed by Satoshi), it is relayed to all peers. For as long as an alert is still in effect, it is rebroadcast at the start of every new connection."
now i personally find that Awesome. if im understanding that right.. he could literally prove who he is by using his private key to a sign a message and send it via the client(?) to everyone! would be awesome to see a message from him like that or something, makes me wonder if there is any code in the client to display such 'alerts' or what they might be used for if not to be displayed.
to verify that we would need his public key, makes me wonder if its a regular bitcoin address and if so, can we look it up. doubt it would have any bitcoins on it.. but meh would be neat just to check!
oh... and satoshi's real identity -> AI from the future that created bitcoins and funneled them into accounts so the AI has access to massive wealth when bitcoin is the global currency. don't supposed anyone wants to come up with a Science fiction story about "satoshi's true identity and why he created bitcoins?"
and i had been thinking "if satoshi ever came forward, or died and someone wanted to prove this person was satoshi, how could they?" at this point in time, anyone could impersonate him unless he has a few people he talks to through secure means, but then... how do WE believe them, i mean Really believe them? well i was rummaging through some stuff and found this lil gem, i don't know much about it but thought it was worth sharing since this thread showed up.check out the last paragraph under "Standard relaying" https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Network#Standard_relaying
the important parts,
"Network alerts are broadcast with alert messages. these contain the entire alert. If a received alert is valid (signed by Satoshi), it is relayed to all peers. For as long as an alert is still in effect, it is rebroadcast at the start of every new connection."
now i personally find that Awesome. if im understanding that right.. he could literally prove who he is by using his private key to a sign a message and send it via the client(?) to everyone! would be awesome to see a message from him like that or something, makes me wonder if there is any code in the client to display such 'alerts' or what they might be used for if not to be displayed.
to verify that we would need his public key, makes me wonder if its a regular bitcoin address and if so, can we look it up. doubt it would have any bitcoins on it.. but meh would be neat just to check!
oh... and satoshi's real identity -> AI from the future that created bitcoins and funneled them into accounts so the AI has access to massive wealth when bitcoin is the global currency. don't supposed anyone wants to come up with a Science fiction story about "satoshi's true identity and why he created bitcoins?"