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Hey, pls add the gramatik song titled Satoshi Nakamoto to pop culture 163.53.144.27 (talk) 11:29, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 14:55, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I feel that there should be an explanation of the Len Sassaman testimonial in the blockchain that was eternalised that way after he committed suicide in 2011. Otherwise the image in the Satoshi Nakamoto article is kind of inexplicable.

Use this text form Sassaman's page to fix it.

A presentation given by Kaminsky at the 2011 Black Hat Briefings revealed that a testimonial in honor of Sassaman had been permanently embedded into Bitcoin's blockchain.^[1]

I propose something like:

In 2021, developer Evan Hatch proposed cypherpunk Len Sassaman of COSIC as a possible candidate.[80] Sassaman had been mentioned on bitcointalk on 15 March 2013 when a user suggested Sassaman was Satoshi.[81] It's already quite remarkable that Sassaman's image was eternalised in the Bitcoin blockchain shortly after his suicide in the summer of 2011. Hajosmit (talk) 16:09, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Partly done: I copied the text and ref from Len Sassaman. I did not use your suggested wording. Schazjmd (talk) 16:16, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I'd like to add Isamu Kaneko in Possible identities section between Hal Finney and Dorian Nakamoto based on this post

https://link3.to/orblabs/post/6cf04054fe2a49ffa95ff3cd541499de2f00d2736ac54eedefced1c2732e3408

Here is my summary of the above post. I'd like to add this summary on this Wikipedia page.

Isamu Kaneko (July 1st 1970 - July 6th 2013) was a Japanese computer scientist and programmer well known as the creator of Winny, P2P file sharing software inspired by Freenet, released in January 2002. Mr.masa, serial tech entrepreneur and angel investor in blockchain space who founded Orb, Modular Architecture DPoS based Layer1 which was acquired by SBI in 2018, argue that, based on Hal Finney’s post about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto on Bitcoin forum, it’s convincingly possible to identify Isamu Kaneko as Satoshi Nakamoto with five reasons.

Firstly, considering his outstanding technical capability and academic background which was also proved by his creating Winny alone, Isamu Kaneko could design and build Bitcoin.

Secondly, Winny is the clear evidence for Isamu Kanako as a Cypherpunk. And, through his friendship with Kenji Saito in MITOH program who was ex Chief Architect of Orb, and invented iWAT, P2P Community Currency System in 2003, it’s quite natural that he shows his interest in creating cryptographic P2P money system.

Thirdly, because of his arrest by Japanese police department and conviction as guilty against his creation of Winny in 2004, he had a clear reason to hide his identity very carefully in order to avoid his second arrest against his invention of Bitcoin. But, he gave us a hint to his identity: he used Japanese name, Satoshi Nakamoto.

Fourthly, he can write (not speak) in English fluently. This means, there is no way for us to conclude he is native English speaker simply because writing fluent English is much easier than speaking fluently. Also, smart person like Satoshi Nakamoto shall be able to write in English very well with using some translation application and also post his messages to the forum or email with using his own software programs to disguise his actual life cycle in order to keep his anonymity carefully.

And finally, within all potential candidates, only Hal Finney and Isamu Kaneko already died, which convinced us why Satoshi Nakamoto never sell his 750K to 1.1M BTC until now.

Thus, we can conclude Isamu Kaneko is Satoshi Nakamoto. He is the only person matches all clues to identify the creator of Bitcoin. mr.masa also criticized that Authoritarians in Japan killed Isamu Kaneko socially. Mrmasa88 (talk) 14:20, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: A blog post is not a reliable source. One person's self-published speculations lack significance to be included in the article. If independent reliable sources cover the theory, you could submit the request again at the time citing those sources. Schazjmd (talk) 14:28, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This argument is not accurate because of language issues. In Chinese Wikipedia, Isamu Kaneko was mentioned as Satoshi Nakamoto by citing Japanese news article. If you insist only English articles must be “reliable” sources, your argument is clearly discriminator. Why Chinese wikipedia accepted this theory while English wikipedia does not accept? It’s totally unacceptable.

中本聪（英语：Satoshi Nakamoto）

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E6%9C%AC%E8%81%AA

Also, in this Chinese Wikipedia page, it mentioned Satoshi Nakamoto denied that he was dead. But, this is false because here is his reply histories on P2P foundation. There is not such reply by Satoshi Nakamoto.

https://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=0ye0gncqg772o Mrmasa88 (talk) 08:58, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't post text from other sites here. Link is enough. Wikipedia should be based on reliable sources, not random posts. Retimuko (talk) 14:31, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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In the first paragraph under "Other candidates", change "(...) and Irish student Michael Clear, who was in 2008 an undergraduate student in cryptography (...)" to "(...) and Irish student Michael Clear, who, in 2008, was an undergraduate student in cryptography (...)" to improve readability. Rewardsloth (talk) 18:08, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Kovcszaln6 (talk) 18:55, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About 6 hours ago, I was bcc'd on an off-wiki email from a "Wikipedia writer". It was clearly sent to multiple editors, asking that a newly published ebook be linked as a source. I'm keeping it vague to not indirectly become a meatpuppet. Mason (talk) 23:31, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This was me emailing you. If you didn’t want to receive emails from outside, then you shouldn’t have put your personal email address in your bio. It literally says on top of this page, 'Be welcoming to newcomers,' but you were so mean to me. I don’t know anything about Wikipedia, but I’m going to learn how to use it :) Jessica plutman (talk) 00:48, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have it set up so that people can contact my personal email, not my work email. You contacted my work email. My full email back to you was "You can add it to the talk page. However, sending unsolicited emails to multiple users is not appropriate." Could I have been nicer about it yes. But that's not an mean email. Mason (talk) 10:08, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi everyone,

I was reading a book and noticed that it contains a lot of information about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.

The book is quite technical and appears to be written by a cybersecurity expert who has worked in the industry for many years. The author was able to compare files from Satoshi Nakamoto's computers with code compiled by another cybersecurity expert, Dr. Adam Back.

I’m new to Wikipedia and not sure how to start editing. I noticed that this topic is protected, so I wanted to reach out and ask if someone could check this book.

You can find the book amazon "WHO IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO? The Founder of Bitcoin!" Jessica plutman (talk) 01:04, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I dont know what book that is. One suggestion is that you could take a short quote from the book, put it here, and also link to that page that bears the quote in google books so we can Verify it. Then we can consider it. Are you asking to include Adam Back as a possible candidate? Thanks! Jtbobwaysf (talk) 07:43, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t think the book is available on Google Books; I read it on Amazon KDP, and it was listed as free. I can take a screenshot and upload it to my Google Drive. Would that work for you? Jessica plutman (talk) 23:20, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"WHO IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO? The Founder of Bitcoin!" appears to be a self-published ebook and not a reliable source. Schazjmd (talk) 14:45, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Self-published doesn't mean bad.

A self-published source can be independent, authoritative, high-quality, accurate, fact-checked, and expert-approved.

Quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_using_self-published_works Jessica plutman (talk) 23:12, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Update date in Development section at “[…] owns between 750,000 and 1,100,000 Bitcoin.[needs update] In November 2021, when […]” Kntic (talk) 15:06, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: We can't update the date without a later source to support it. I've tweaked the wording in that paragraph to correspond with the source, which is that it was estimated in 2021 how much he owned. Schazjmd (talk) 15:13, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]