... "Where can I get Bitcoins?
Find a Bitcoin owner and sell her something - MMORPG equipment
Lol
I know vitalik played MMORPG. Did satoshi play as well?
was born in 1994 in Russia and moved to Canada in 2000, where I went to school. I happily played World of Warcraft during 2007-2010, but one day Blizzard removed the damage component from my beloved warlock's Siphon Life spell. I cried myself to sleep, and on that day I realized what horrors centralized services can bring. I soon decided to quit.
In 2011, searching for a new purpose in life, I discovered Bitcoin.
https://about.me/vitalik_buterinWith Bitcoin keys, these problems don't exist because of Bitcoin addresses. Bitcoin addresses hide the actual cryptographic keys (locked inside a hash) until you spend from them. So the information needed to bruteforce a Bitcoin key is publicly available from the time you send till when it gets 1 confirm on the Bitcoin network, before that it's as secret as your private key. This is not long enough to attack Bitcoin's public keys (ECDSA secp256k1 keys), unlike the 10+ years people have had to attack Satoshi's PGP key (DSA keys).
Why didn't satoshi signed with a bitcoin address to prove his identity?
Do you think that it would be possible that in the future bitcoin address may replace PGP keys?
I am more comfortable in proving my identity using a bitcoin signed message than a PGP key. I use bitcoin addresses a lot but I barely used a PGP key. As you said it is safer, isn't it a good substitute?