Quote from: cAPSLOCK on March 08, 2014, 05:43:10 AM

Just a few observations.

1. You spend a great deal of time and energy belittling others especially in ways that are implicitly braggadocios. Most of the time you attack people intelligence or masculinity. I find it pathetic and very telling.

My point was that if as a community we are not rational, then we are doomed to end up just like fiat.

It is sad for me to see even someone technical who is supposed to be very intelligent such as DeathAndTaxes speculating that Dorian might be the real creator of Bitcoin. The only possible way I could see that is if he was forced under duress to put his name on a public paper while simultaneously forced to pretend he wanted to be anonymous. This could be some bizarro disinformation scheme of the higher powers that be. But that really pushes Occam's Razor away.

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on March 08, 2014, 05:43:10 AM

2. Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto allegedly used an outdated version of his legal name when he published the paper and in his early communications. He may have found this light pseudo anonymity enough when he was musing about the creation of bitcoin.

Then why was "Satoshi" so damn careful for two years to never even once leak his IP address. Do you know how difficult that is?

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on March 08, 2014, 05:43:10 AM

3. DPSN may have found traction in the growing interest in who he was and obvious confusion as to his possible identities as an advantage of greater anonymity than he had counted on having when he used his birth name in the beginning.

Could you unpack that to English please in way that refutes my prior sentence and question?

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on March 08, 2014, 05:43:10 AM

Perhaps he then decided along the way to bail as bitcoin grew at a pace and to a size he had not expected (there is some evidence SN thought bitcoin was growing too fast).

Again this does not refute my important sentence and question above.

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on March 08, 2014, 05:43:10 AM

4. Your "logic" is based both in full hindsight as well as rooted in your own values (extreme anonymity an obvious one). This leads you to a possible error in thought.

No I am basing it on the evidence as stated in my above sentence and question.

There is just no way to get around that which is rational unless he was under duress.

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on March 08, 2014, 05:43:10 AM

It could simply be, that if Dorian is THE Satoshi that he didn't feel an overly strong need to be completely anonymous until his creation began to have minor success, and then as it went from minor to major he took advantage of the fact no one had put two and two together and faded into the shadows.

The impossibility of your scenario is my important sentence and question above.

Quote from: cAPSLOCK on March 08, 2014, 05:43:10 AM

I know your "logic" is full of shit though.

To the illogical such as yourself, noise is indistinguishable from logic.

Very smart people know me as being a very astute reductionist. I make mistakes sometimes, I am still human. I can break very complex patterns down to their essence. This is why I am such a damn good programmer. I can literally put 100s of variables in my head and "see" the answer (pull away the dependent variables and have remaining the independent ones).