Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 12:03:40 PM

Quote from: BunnyWunny on March 11, 2024, 08:05:32 PM

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These are ridiculous arguments to even have a slight certainty. But, besides that, you ignore a crucial part. Satoshi's and Nick Szabo's texts have been run as inputs in reverse textual analysis, and are strongly connected. For your theory to make sense, either Edward has to pretend to be Nick (which is another level of ridicule), or Edward's texts are more connected than Nick's (which is not the case as far as we're concerned).

Quote from: DooMAD on Today at 08:34:53 AM

//EDIT: Case made here for the rule to be equitably enforced.

Fair. I hope I haven't violated it. I'll stop talking about it.

It's entirely circumstantial but that doesn't make it ridiculous. What is ridiculous is trying to prove who Satoshi is through semantic analysis when there are so few forum posts to analyse and when he clearly guarded against this by deliberately writing blandly.

Nobody will ever scientifically prove who Satoshi is, hence why one needs to think more creatively. All the other strong candidates are most certainly not Satoshi as they have been pored over endlessly by the entire web for 13 years and there is nothing more than circumstantial evidence to suggest it is them. However there is more circumstantial evidence to suggest it is Snowden. He had the skills, the motives and means. He has an earth shatteringly large amount of Bitcoin. And he knows better than almost anyone how to remain digitally anonymous.

But the hipsters choice is that it can't be anyone who is already famous. It has to be some obscure cryptographer living in their mom's basement. Someone with the brilliance of Satoshi is most certainly not whittling away their lives inconspicuously, they are probably very prominent in some field or maybe many, in a way that would give them a large profile. How many people as brilliant as Satoshi do you know are living the life of a regular civilian, going completely unnoticed by society?

But if I'm completely wrong in saying that Snowden ought to be considered a serious candidate for Satoshi then tell me why? What are the reasons to exclude him?