Quote from: modrobert on Today at 07:19:08 AM

Quote from: death_wish on June 27, 2022, 10:09:55 PM

Quote from: modrobert on June 27, 2022, 09:51:45 PM

Quote from: death_wish on June 27, 2022, 06:22:55 PM

Quote from: modrobert on June 27, 2022, 12:55:06 PM

https://www.blockchain.com/it/btc/address/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

For a signature, or to “move his stash” as you said? The Genesis coinbase itself can’t be moved; it is not sent to that address, but rather, in P2PK to a public key that people convert to that P2PKH address as an anachronism.

18.53375545 BTC (as of writing) from that address can be moved, if you have the wallet (private key) of Satoshi.

The correct (movable) amount is listed by Block Stream Explorer (note how the 50 BTC mining reward transaction is not listed here for the same address):
https://blockstream.info/address/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

I almost said as much, but then cut it as an unnecessary tangent. I try to prevent my posts from being too long.

If I know that people are converting the Genesis coinbase P2PK key to a P2PKH address (an arcane detail that few realize), I obviously know that idiots have been sending money there, and how much of it, and that it can be moved. Should I now embark on the long tangent I had in mind about why sending money there is a bad idea?

The point from which I do not want to distract with this irrelevant tangent: Moving money around not the right way to ask Satoshi to prove his identity. signmessage exists, and it works. Satoshi has a PGP key; I linked to this forum’s copy of it, and I provided the fingerprint. The threshold test for any Satoshi claimant is to sign an appropriate message with a known Satoshi key.

You avoided the first part of my original post...

Quote from: modrobert on June 27, 2022, 11:50:43 AM

If you were Satoshi, what would be the benefit of claiming that in public (think it through at least twice before replying)?

...assuming you didn't think twice about it yet.

No, I did not avoid it. I dismissed it. I immediately understood what you were saying, but it is unimportant. You are not as clever as you believe, and you evidently do not read carefully.

Quote from: death_wish on June 27, 2022, 12:06:29 PM

By “authentication”, I mean signing a message with substance similar to this:

Code:

2022-06-26: I, [name of claimant], am Satoshi Nakamoto.

I don’t ask someone’s motives before demanding that. If the claimant refuses (as Craig Wright has), then his motives are obvious: He is an imposter.

The real Satoshi could potentially have various motives to step forward at some point—various benefits he may wish to attain. (If he is still alive.) The real Satoshi also would or could have many obvious motives never to appear publicly again—much less to dox himself.

Instead of attempting to exercise my psychic powers predicting the behaviour of an anonymous person, or projecting onto him what I think I would or wouldn’t want or do, I deem it wiser to put all Satoshi-claimants to a simple, objective test at the threshold. If anyone ever passes that test, then I will evaluate the individual as he is, in the circumstance as it is. Those who fail that test are immediately dismissed as imposters.