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• aggray commented on Schadenfreude
  Looks like Satoshi Nakamoto has been identified: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/satoshi-nakamoto-identified/ Turns out that is his real name, and he's a 64 year old American living in California who collects model trains. Also a libertarian, though that will come as a surprise to no one....
• john.bartley commented on Schadenfreude
  Gold? How outre. Plutonium, U-233 and U-235, and Np-237. Fissionables, that's the ticket. Then no one will dare blow up their own wealth....
• Trottelreiner commented on Schadenfreude
  As the Romans said, E Pluribus Uranium... Personally, I think one of the Uranium and Plutonium isotopes with a high spontaneous fission rate is the way to go. First of, implosion devices are somewhat more difficult to build than gun type ones, second of, criticality incidents dissuade prospective goldb^w, err, transuranbugs......
• scott-sanford commented on Schadenfreude
  Looks like Satoshi Nakamoto has been identified... Wait, wait... So the mysterious Libertarian genius evaded identification by other Libertarians and paranoid cranks by the cunning plan of...logging off the internet? After using his actual real name? And this worked for over five years? This only raises more questions....
• Charlie Stross commented on Schadenfreude
  I am skeptical that this particular Satoshi Nakamoto is the Satoshi Nakamoto who invented bitcoin. For one thing, he's denying it. For another thing, "Satoshi Nakamoto" has surfaced and is denying that he's Dorian Nakamoto. And for a third thing, if he was indeed the owner of 1.1 million BtC, it's hard to see why he would be putting up with press harassment when he could afford to hire Blackwater for personal security ......