Quote from: Herbert2020 on July 28, 2019, 07:57:25 AM

Quote from: Lauren Smith on July 27, 2019, 10:10:31 PM

If Satoshi becomes know then bitcoin is dead. It defeats the entire purpose and reason for bitcoin. If the creator cannot stay annonomous the currency has failed.

i think you are very confused about the "purpose" of bitcoin!
it has never been anonymity and nobody has ever made such claims specially the creator (Satoshi Nakamoto). in fact bitcoin is the most transparent currency in existence. all it provides is privacy.
and the "reason" for creation of bitcoin was to cut the middle man aka the centralization.

"Finding Satoshi" is half the fun, no?

Show me a Satoshi Nakamoto posts which states otherwise!

I'm a staunch privacy advocate myself, thus why allow impostors or impersonators to have all the fun ...

..."No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."...

..."Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."...

..."Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author."...

All excerpts from; United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Responsibility vs Right to Privacy.

or perhaps;

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy
vs
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten (or privilege to be remembered !?!)

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This is how we end up with this kind of industry nonsense;

YouTube's 'Bitcoin and Friends': Why Satoshi Should Never Be Revealed ...
- https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-interviewed-by-cointelegraph-head-of-news-molly-zuckerman

vs

Civil War ...
- https://youtu.be/isCh4kCeNYU

Lips sealed

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Whois Satoshi? Known Satoshi IP addresses? ...
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5155191