How you probably will find Satoshi

lalaland1125 37 points 6 comments May 22, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)

illusive4080

Make it a distributed compute problem like GIMPS and let the crowd solve it.

petterroea

Why are people so obsessed with finding him? As others have pointed out wrt the New York Times article, it will just put him in danger.

golly_ned

Newsweek already found him back in 2014, remember? They searched for everyone named SN and narrowed it down to the most likely candidate. Foolproof.

recursivecaveat

This is all premised on his windows user account name being identifying no? I have a hard time believing that to be the case for someone who was clearly extremely painstaking about privacy. Even I set mine to some nonsense because I know I'll accidentally leak it.

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