How the NSA identified Satoshi Nakamoto
From Medium
The ‘creator’ of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, is the world’s most elusive billionaire. Very few people outside of the Department of Homeland Security know Satoshi’s real name. In fact, DHS will not publicly confirm that even THEY know the billionaire’s identity. Satoshi has taken great care to keep his identity secret employing the latest encryption and obfuscation methods in his communications. Despite these efforts (according to my source at the DHS) Satoshi Nakamoto gave investigators the only tool they needed to find him — his own words.Read more: https://medium.com/@amuse/how-the-nsa-caught-satoshi-nakamoto-868affcef595Using stylometry one is able to compare texts to determine authorship of a particular work. Throughout the years Satoshi wrote thousands of posts and emails and most of which are publicly available. According to my source, the NSA was able to the use the ‘writer invariant’ method of stylometry to compare Satoshi’s ‘known’ writings with trillions of writing samples from people across the globe. By taking Satoshi’s texts and finding the 50 most common words, the NSA was able to break down his text into 5,000 word chunks and analyse each to find the frequency of those 50 words. This would result in a unique 50-number identifier for each chunk. The NSA then placed each of these numbers into a 50-dimensional space and flatten them into a plane using principal components analysis. The result is a ‘fingerprint’ for anything written by Satoshi that could easily be compared to any other writing.
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There is no actual evidence of the chain of events being theorised in this article ever taking place.
Sure, it is hypothetically possible that the NSA could do this, however, there is no real drive from the authorities side ("deep state" theories aside...) to "unmask" Satoshi.
Spending millions of dollars in compute time to find some guy simply is not a priority for the NSA, when they have actual foreign intelligence collection jobs to be doing, etc.
It is rather terrifying to know that even after so much secrecy and precaution NSA could find him!
The article never says they found him, it says they think they found him... which any idiot with a Twitter account could also claim mind you.
F*** the NSA! Nothing but spies for the deep state!
This is fake news. There is no proof they found anything.
You are a disinfo agent from the real fake news
What's even the point of finding out who Satoshi is? His view and philosophy is already affecting the world, and there's nothing the NSA or any government can do to stop BTC or the cryptocurrency revolution.
The gangs that collect taxes for our perceived protections and freedoms think he/they owe a little....
The article is nothing but speculation and anonymous sources.
Don't you believe it.
There have actually been multiple people acused of being Satoshi, but really, knowing who he really was is useless at this point. Besides, there's nothing illegal going on here.
Thank you for sharing this post. Very beneficial and will look into this further.
Note to self: have Watson write all public correspondences for me.
This is dis information. Satoshi is a composite group and NSA knows the structure of the 1 million BTC's and the cold storage of it
or are you disinfo?
no i do not think I am dis info. Looking at the fact that the 1 million BTC has not moved is where I started my research.
That doesn't mean they haven't figured it out. The wallet has nothing to do with how they say they figured it out.
Thanks for your reply.
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