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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
19 Jan 2021 Acquired Bitcoin
“Because then, if it’s a group of people, then there’s obviously no way that they would slip up and expose personal information.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 19 Jan 2021
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- Acquired
- Episode
- Bitcoin
Transcript context
…What Satoshi did is quite remarkable in being untraceable. Most of the time, these people slip up in some capacity. Their personal account is the first one to follow their account. If their emails are ever leaked, they made a communication, their backup email is their personal email, or they did a two-factor auth from their phone number. There are all kinds of ways that you discover later, yup, turns out, this really was this person. The first time they were just with the domain at the name, they did it with their email address. Satoshi did none of these things. To this day, it could be 1 of 10 people who people think it is or could be none of those people. We have no idea. I think this is also one of the reasons why people really believed it was a group of people. Because then, if it’s a group of people, then there’s obviously no way that they would slip up and expose personal information. The paper is also written in we. Whether that’s the royal we, I don’t know. But they keep saying we propose the following solution.…
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