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recursivecaveat 2 days ago [-]
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.
edelbitter 2 days ago [-]
Should not set it to nonsense, but rather low-entropy. If its unique, someone with access to old (browser, probably) crash reports might be able to cross-reference. Plus, not too long ago browsers did not care to sanitize the path for input[type="file"], so some websites remembered your account name somewhere in their database.
verzali 2 days ago [-]
His account name could just be 'satoshi'. Or similar.
petterroea 2 days ago [-]
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.
edelbitter 2 days ago [-]
That particular alias is mildly interesting. The obsession is with finally making progress in understanding the "We kill people based on metadata" threat. Maybe we can please finally stop stuffing PII & timestamps into each "crash report" and every "telemetry ping" and get back to work towards 100% reproducible outputs. (Well, right after I "enable javascript and cookies" because Cloudflare/Fastly/Akamai refuse to talk to me before they can grab a unique fingerprint..)
petterroea 2 days ago [-]
You are right. I just wish we didn't need victims to get change :(
tim333 1 days ago [-]
I think who Satoshi is is fairly clear if you look into it all but most who do don't put it out there for those reasons.
demorro 1 days ago [-]
Please don't support this. Satoshi wants to be anonymous.
illusive4080 2 days ago [-]
Make it a distributed compute problem like GIMPS and let the crowd solve it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-...
They searched for everyone named SN and narrowed it down to the most likely candidate. Foolproof.