Did Satoshi Nakamoto Write This Mass Excerpt? A Wired Investigation

First up, from the Nakamoto Family Foundation, June 29:

Announcing the starting fourth dimension excerpt to a literary locomote consisting of 2 parts. The excerpt is provided. I wanted to include it every bit a brief glimpse of history. Even for those that can't read the amount book, I wanted to brand this available to everyone. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 brusque flush if you lot will, amongst around of the most brought upwardly questions in addition to answers. I wanted the people in addition to the facts to endure known. Or every bit much of it. I'm however saving most for the books, the best parts hopefully. It's currently only a possibility for now. In the meantime the excerpt is included.

Links amongst data most the mass (if it comes to frution) volition endure posted hither on this site inward the coming month.
Names to both are inward this puzzle to solve, for those who desire spoilers caput downward to the excerpt: cryptopuzzle

- Convert letters to numbers
- Numbers similar 1 correspond the alphabetic lineament B, it is inward mixed order
- Title of mass broken into 2 parts is revealed at the end

The 2 purpose serial is however alpha in addition to experimental. There's no guarantee the mass volition always come upwardly to be, unless it becomes necessary in addition to people desire to know most me personally.

In social club to figure out the names for them, I select created a uncomplicated cryptogram. It is ridiculously tardily for anyone to solve, regardless of age. No bruteforce needed. I too volition supply the guess loose dates subsequently on inward the illustration they create larn made.

I would similar to hold that at that topographic point were many who contributed to this project, many names of which were non included, individuals who for whatever argue select chosen non to croak world in addition to hence out of respect, I did non include them. Once these conversations are inward the world domain to include them inward the possible series, I volition create so. But to endure certain, at that topographic point are countless conversations I found to endure enlightening that I promise locomote inward to endure purpose of the story. There volition endure many novel names in addition to individuals appearing throughout the mass inward whatever case, every bit it is a flush most my personal life. Those willing to portion these conversations should, for the public

29 June 2018

Paper: Duality: An excerpt

Satoshi Nakamoto
nakamotofoundation@protonmail.com

And from Wired, July 1:

Years select gone by since any novel slice of writing has appeared past times Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin. But on Fri night, someone claiming to endure Nakomoto published 21 pages of novel material—a sneak preview, allegedly, of a mass most the cryptocurrency’s origins.
The excerpt appeared at 11:45 p.m., on a website, NakamotoFamilyFoundation.org, anonymously purchased 3 days agone via Amazon’s domain registrar. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 proxy too established contact amongst WIRED on the self-proclaimed Nakamoto’s behalf.

Ever since bitcoin’s anonymous creation, numerous people select come upwardly forrad claiming to endure Nakamoto; online conspiracy theories in addition to journalistic investigations select fingered i Satoshi after another. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 widely debunked 2014 Newsweek mag article pointed to a Japanese-American human being inward California; inward 2015, WIRED reported that Australian academic Craig Wright “was either the inventor of Bitcoin … or a hoaxer.” Wright continues to force that he’s Nakamoto, fifty-fifty tweeting Fri inward a cryptic message that he would shortly seek it and, over the weekend, tweeting without elaboration that the “new” Nakamoto writings were a fraud: “Nakamotofamilyfoundation cannot larn the dates nor technical details correct.”

In all that time, no i has proven themselves to endure Nakamoto to the satisfaction of the members of the cryptographic community that helped give nativity to bitcoin. As skeptics inward the cryptography community select repeatedly pointed out, the truthful Satoshi ought to select access to the cryptographic keys that command the starting fourth dimension bitcoins—coins that select stayed set for a decade. If someone purporting to endure Nakamoto were to motility i of those coins to a unlike address or sign something amongst keys that alone Satoshi has, that would endure a pretty expert cast of verification.

This novel Nakamoto—who however does non desire his existent identity revealed—declined to motility whatever coins or sign anything amongst his ain keys. “He” (if it is a him) is not, according to data provided to WIRED, whatever of the 3 leading Nakamoto suspects: Wright, Nick Szabo, or Dorian Nakamoto, the individual identified previously past times Newsweek.

WIRED reached out to several members of the early on bitcoin community inward an endeavour to verify the authenticity of the excerpt—and came back, every bit has happened every fourth dimension Satoshi Nakamoto is sighted inward the wild, amongst inconclusive answers.

Bitcoin, He Wrote

The excerpt, which this Nakamoto describes every bit a “short story,” includes a cryptogram that he says reveals the championship of his forthcoming book. The uncomplicated numbers-for-letters exchange yields the words “Honne in addition to Tatamae,” a transliteration of a Japanese phrase meant to select the contrast betwixt a person’s private feelings in addition to their world behavior. Similarly, the excerpt is entitled “Duality.”

The text of the excerpt contains a smattering of potentially new, identifying details. Nakamoto describes his woman nurture is an writer (“albeit pocket-sized circulation”) in addition to his grandmother every bit the founder of a really pocket-sized publishing company. At historic catamenia 14, he writes, he was drawn into the cypherpunk community, “where anonymity was every bit key every bit breathing.” He says he was inward his 20s when he began posting most bitcoin piece working every bit a academy researcher inward a lab, in addition to that he came upwardly amongst the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto because it was the Japanese “equivalent of ‘John Smith’”—though he all but confirms that he is non Japanese....MUCH MORE