I honestly agree with this and much of what the other critical posters are saying above, but I think most of you are missing one big thing here...

Vitalik is still basically still just a kid!

He was like 19 or 20 when he started working full time on Ethereum, and look where it's at now, with a marketcap of like $30 Billion!

Can you just imagine if your own little pet project that you were working on when you were 19 exploded and within a couple of years was valued at 30 billion bucks, and suddenly you were a multi-millionaire.

How well would you handle it, and do you think your PR would always be spot on?

Whether you like Ethereum or not, for most people there is no arguing that Vitalik is a smart kid. Time will tell if him and the other developers are smart enough to make Ethereum overcome their scaling problems, but I both hope and think they will.

I like Poloniex and have been using it for several years.

A few years ago it was hacked and there was a big huha here on the forum about it. I supported the Italian guy that runs it, (I think he still does but not 100% sure), in the long thread about the hack, because he showed every sign of being a trustworthy individual, and I was proved right.

I left the Bitcoin scene for a while and when I came back to Poloniex after a couple of years of not logging in there not only did I find a substantial balance sitting there waiting for me, but also that a couple of the "shitcoins" that I had bought just for fun were now worth a lot of money!  

I don't think either Poloniex or Bittrex is going to take your coins and run away with them, so it's really down to your personal preferences. Mine is generally Poloniex.

You should listen to the sound advice from the previous posters in this thread.

That said, there is nothing wrong with looking for and using tools to help you in your trading.

One that you MAY want to check out (I am in no way endorsing this tool) is this one: https://coindata.io/about

In the end you are always going to have to make the decision on when to trade, but there are many good tools/signs available that will increase your chance of success, including learning about volume and how it affects price and why and so on.

I'm a happy BAT holder.

I bought near the peak, but few coins have a development team like this behind them. Now they have the cash too.

This will be a big winner in the next 36 months for those of us that are patient.  

I like several of the suggestions from the OP but I have to agree with you that #INFX looks interesting, just look at the price over the last few days!  

This is clearly no ordinary "pump 'n dump" but rather insiders buying, knowing that Influxcoin is going to go to the moon once the new wallet is released and the new website up and running.

The question is, do you think it's too expensive to get in right now? I bought some at 44,000 today after having seen the price go wild for days on end, but I am hesitant to put more in until I see it break 50k Satoshis.

Interesting concept of creating the tokens.

Any more information on the token itself?

I guess kinda what I am asking is, why would someone invest in this rather than invest in Ethereum directly?

I am planning to develop and launch a new Ethereum based token, and I need an experienced developer who can create advanced smart contracts for Ethereum with Solidity.

You should have experience in Javascript and Solidity, (as a minimum, the more programming experience you have the better!), as well as having successfully launched smart contracts on EVM.

I am looking for someone with real experience from past projects, so please provide some information about what you have done before via PM, or if you prefer in this thread.

Preferably I am looking for someone who can assist in several areas of this project, as well as remaining as the project developer for the foreseeable future.

The rewards for the right person could be substantial.

I look forward to hearing from you! 

Yes, I am still very interested in pursuing this and I have meant to get back to you. I have been in contact with several developers and am still waiting for a few replies...

There are some issues that I am not sure how to resolve such as the dividend payments. I appreciate your interest and will get back to you again shortly.

If anyone else have any thoughts about this idea, positive or negative, I would surely appreciate the input.

That was quite funny actually and probably how a lot of people feel about it when they try to understand how it works.

It may be hard to understand the fear of being "outed" like that for someone who is not overly concerned about privacy. However, I can understand those feelings and I believe they are very strong in Satoshi, and they are not only related to the NSA and CSI etc., even if that is a big part of it.

I believe he is a man that would rather just keep a low profile and communicate with people on his own terms. The possibility of being forced to answer questions and come under the spotlight might cause him huge stress. Think of Howard Hughes. 


Until today yes it could have been one of hundreds, but now the world knows (or at least believes) that this is the Satoshi.


Because they aren't the real Satoshi they were probably just flattered by the idea that they were considered a candidate.


If that is the route things end up going, which I believe it will, then it won't be as easy as saying: "Nah, it's not me" any longer, because as tvbcof pointed out most likely the NSA may already have been aware that he is the Bitcoin creator. Lying and saying that he knows nothing about it in those circumstances will carry serious risk.


Even in the event that they didn't already know, by now it will be easy for them to find out when they have a clear well defined target to research.


For perjury.


I hope you are right, but I'm afraid that there will soon be some politician or government agency out on a "power trip" and they will subpoena him to some sort of hearing, and then he has nowhere to go. Satoshi knew that and that is one of reasons why he feared when this day would come.

I love to think of him like that too, just like in this picture! 

http://imageupper.com/i/?S0400010090011T13942577991592644

But unfortunately when seeing him in that video interview, what I see is haunted frightened man who will probably not defend Bitcoin like the bad-ass we hope will be.

He needs to feel our support. Knowing that you have a million+ people behind you that consider you their "hero genius", and will do everything they can do protect you can hopefully make the coming weeks/months ahead easier for him to cope with, but most people here still don't believe he is our Satoshi.

Well first of all it matters to him! His life as he knew it is ruined and he must have feared this day coming!

Secondly, I think it will matter to us soon as well!

How long before he is subpoenaed and forced to tell the truth, or risk a long prison sentence?

That day will indeed be a very sad day for Bitcoin. I suspect that he will have a lot of negative things to say about how Bitcoin has developed and is being used. If that were to happen the authorities (and the world) will use any negative comments from him as an excuse to simply make it illegal.

Remember that he was strongly opposed to Bitcoin even being used for donations to Wikileaks, and that was the time he left the forum and Bitcoin for good.

Yes, she is the lowest scum of a reporter.

What she did to this poor man, who has made such an amazing contribution to the world, just to further her own career is truly shameful and perhaps even criminal.  

I couldn't disagree more, I think Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto is supercool! 

Can you even imagine the discipline it takes to have hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin and not cash them in because you would rather just "keep a low profile"?

We need more people like him in the world, who are willing to change the world for the better without caring much about the financial benefit they can get from it.

If you are reading this Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, you are an amazing man and I am very grateful for all that you have done for us

Yes, because he didn't want to talk to her about Bitcoin.

My point was that she was no "strange woman suddenly showing up at his door".

He had been communicating with her for two weeks about his favourite hobby, (model trains), and she had called him in advance to tell him she was coming to see him.


I never said that she flirted with him, you did.

Edit: I re-read my previous post and realised that I actually suggested she might have flirted with him. Was probably too tired when writing all this. Maybe flirting is unlikely, but my point was that she deceived him to get him slip up, and she did whatever she had to, in order to achieve a quote.

I said that she probably used every trick in the book that she could think of, including trying to be charming and friendly, because that is what scummy reporters like her do! They lie and say and do anything to get their story, and perhaps after having built up some rapport with him during the past two weeks she managed to get that quote during a moment of weakness when he wanted nothing more than for this woman to disappear.

I also don't put it beyond her to lie and completely fabricate the quote, but two police offers have now also confirmed it, and my gut feeling tells me that this is our Satoshi.


Yeah, I certainly could do with a good lay!  


Nah, but it might be a good script!

She called him before she was coming though.

Also, remember that she had been communicating with him for two weeks prior to meeting him, making up stories about how she was interested in learning "how to upgrade model steam trains using computer-aided design technologies", one of his favourite interests.

So she was clearly not a stranger to him when she turned up at his house.

She probably used every trick in the book to get him to talk about Bitcoin, from flirting, charming to getting him to pity her. I can imagine the conversation now:


Then Dorian/Satoshi loses his focus for a second and let's out:

This is what these scummy reporters without any scruples do. Infiltrate and pretend to be friends with good decent people so that they drop their guard, and then they hang them out!  

Yes I loved that quote as well! 

Maybe it was just his way to be humble though, and trying to downplay it all.

^^^This^^^

Besides, he most likely is our Satoshi, so it's his life that Leah the scummy reporter ruined!  


How many suburban houses do you know of that are more or less completely unsecured and occupied by an elderly gentleman and his 93 year old mother that has $400-$700 million in an online currency, whereby if you get a hold of it no one can reverse the transaction? There are probably hackers that already trying to find out his IP in the unlikely event that he kept some of his wallets on a connected computer.  

The scummy reporter made him a prime target for everyone from government agencies with a political agenda to violent ruthless criminals that would stop at nothing to get a hold of hundreds of millions worth of Bitcoins!  

He is under a huge amount of pressure now, but when Leah was first there it wasn't so intense. Perhaps he thought that if he told her that he had nothing to do with it anymore she would leave him alone and interview someone else. She had probably tried to charm him with her smile and by being friendly. Remember that she started her communications by tricking him saying that she enjoying the shared interest of model trains!   Perhaps he didn't yet realise how serious it was and he preferred not to lie outright to her?  

Maybe with his statements now he is just trying throw out misdirection by referring to Bitcoin as "Bitcom" and saying silly things like: "I never communicated with Bitcoin" to throw people off as much as possible. It's pretty smart actually since it seems to be working for a lot of people.


Yes. He knows that with all the controversy surrounding Bitcoin he will be subpoenaed by all sorts of government agencies that he really doesn't want to have any contact with at all!

It's really sad to see this great man who wants nothing but to live a private life being harassed in this way.

Shame on the sleazy Leah McGrath Goodman, she is the worst scum of a reporter!  

I'm not trying to start an argument as I agree that Satoshi wanted to stay private, but let's just break down the evidence you pointed out:


If you were publishing something like the Bitcoin white paper online, would you use your normal personal email address or set-up a new one specifically for that?


Do we know this for a fact? Did theymos confirm that from Satoshi's logins to the forum, or how do we know?

I have seen quotes that Satoshi even mined on Tor, but I have never seen any evidence? Satoshi had already left (or was just about to) by the time I joined the forum and I honestly haven't read all his posts, did he say this himself at some point or what are the sources for this?


I normally don't do that either, and the same is true for a lot of people. I don't do it here or on other online forums I engage in, not even those that I have been a member of for more than a decade. I think a lot of people that have been online since the early to mid-90s and are not part of "the Facebook generation" prefer to only share their private lives with people in the real world rather than with online friends.


We can speculate that the timing of his postings was to indicate he was in another time zone, but perhaps it was just because he worked odd hours? Take me as an example, I'm here posting now but I bet if you guessed my time zone based on that it would be wrong. I'm heading off to bed soon though! 


Maybe he just preferred the headline from The Times, a +200-year old respected newspaper?


I agree that there is no question he wanted to keep a low profile and remain private, but maybe those feelings didn't really come into play until after he started to interact with others online about the Bitcoin project?