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Comment by kylebenzle | Hacker News Reader

Blockstream and bad actors in the crypto-space like Adam Back, Greg Maxwell and Peter Todd helped to hijack the Bitcoin Core (BTC) GitHub repo and ever since have aimed to profit by fixing problems they themselves introduce into the Bitcoin Core code.

Projects like XMR and Bitcoin Cash continue to be true cryptoCurrency projects, most others are scams, jokes or controlled opposition.

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The bad actors in this space are the ones pushing fake bitcoin, like BCH and BSV. I agree that XMR might be the only true cypherpunk project left, because no institutions are keen to admit they trade in it.

This model of federated multi-sig wallets is actually a cypherpunk move. Blind signatures disconnect the transaction graph, like XMR.

I thought that Adam Back was Satoshi. That's not to say that he wasn't corrupted by the success of Bitcoin.

No, he's not, and he's stated he's not.

(Disclaimer: I work for Blockstream)

Apart from Craig White, everyone smart who was involved with the creation of Bitcoin and it's underlying technologies probably isn't oblivious to the danger of revealing themselves as Satoshi Nakamoto. Anyone and their family would be an instant juicy target for the US government, nation states, countless criminal actors or even desperate civilians down on their luck.

So the only person I would actually discard to be the real Satoshi is the one person that wants to be Satoshi the most - Craight Wright.

I think the US government would already know who Satoshi is due to bulk email collection via PRISM and stylometry. I don’t know why you think Satoshi broke any US laws.

The following video painted quite a compelling story of why Adam Beck is Satoshi:

https://youtu.be/XfcvX0P1b5g

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