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NewbieActivity: 46Merit: 0 Bitcoin.net ownership changed - Satoshi is alive January 05, 2014, 01:50:46 AM

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Bitcoin.net current whois



Bitcoins.org prior and current whois match but cannot find a public/free services to show the changes.



These domains appear to have remained "parked" in a manner commonly used by the registrar, up until the ownership changed hands. This means that the DNS did not change hands (historical record indicates the same). All of this indicates that the change of ownership required the original owner use their login credentials at the registrar to initiate the transfer. So either Satoshi handled this himself in November 2013 or he provided the account details to someone before he left his mortal coil.

On November 3rd and 5th 2013 the ownership of Bitcoin.net and Bitcoins.org changed hands. These are two domains that were registered at the same day as Bitcoin.org with the same anonymous registration service. They changed ownership to Michael Marquardt (aka Theymos) hands.Bitcoin.net prior whois Bitcoins.org prior and current whois match but cannot find a public/free services to show the changes.These domains appear to have remained "parked" in a manner commonly used by the registrar, up until the ownership changed hands. This means that the DNS did not change hands (historical record indicates the same). All of this indicates that the change of ownership required the original owner use their login credentials at the registrar to initiate the transfer. So either Satoshi handled this himself in November 2013 or he provided the account details to someone before he left his mortal coil.

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Sr. MemberActivity: 354Merit: 250 Re: Bitcoin.net ownership changed - Satoshi is alive January 05, 2014, 02:15:38 AM #4 Quote from: vongesell on January 05, 2014, 01:50:46 AM



Bitcoin.net current whois



Bitcoins.org prior and current whois match but cannot find a public/free services to show the changes.



These domains appear to have remained "parked" in a manner commonly used by the registrar, up until the ownership changed hands. This means that the DNS did not change hands (historical record indicates the same). All of this indicates that the change of ownership required the original owner use their login credentials at the registrar to initiate the transfer. So either Satoshi handled this himself in November 2013 or he provided the account details to someone before he left his mortal coil.





On November 3rd and 5th 2013 the ownership of Bitcoin.net and Bitcoins.org changed hands. These are two domains that were registered at the same day as Bitcoin.org with the same anonymous registration service. They changed ownership to Michael Marquardt (aka Theymos) hands.Bitcoin.net prior whois Bitcoins.org prior and current whois match but cannot find a public/free services to show the changes.These domains appear to have remained "parked" in a manner commonly used by the registrar, up until the ownership changed hands. This means that the DNS did not change hands (historical record indicates the same). All of this indicates that the change of ownership required the original owner use their login credentials at the registrar to initiate the transfer. So either Satoshi handled this himself in November 2013 or he provided the account details to someone before he left his mortal coil.

The holder of those domains has been known for a while to be Sirius (Martti Malmi)



https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=144445.0

http://sc5.io/blog/2013/02/sc5er-intro-the-bitcoin-guy/



The fact that he sold most of his coins for under $32 back in 2011 suggests pretty strongly to me that he's not Satoshi.



Quote from: The Fool on February 16, 2013, 02:13:07 AM http://blog.sc5.fi/2013/02/sc5er-intro-the-bitcoin-guy/



This was posted a little more than a week ago:



Quote It was 2009 when I was studying computer science at Helsinki University of Technology. Inspired by libertarian ideals, I came up with the idea of a decentralized Internet currency that cannot be controlled by any government or other single entity. I contacted some guy named Satoshi Nakamoto, who had drafted a technical proposal of such a system just a couple months earlier. He called it Bitcoin.

He was removed from the list of project developers on bitcoin.org in June 2011. The same time Satoshi left. He still owns the bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org domains.

This was posted a little more than a week ago:He was removed from the list of project developers on bitcoin.org in June 2011. The same time Satoshi left. He still owns the bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org domains. The holder of those domains has been known for a while to be Sirius (Martti Malmi)The fact that he sold most of his coins for under $32 back in 2011 suggests pretty strongly to me that he's not Satoshi.

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NewbieActivity: 46Merit: 0 Re: Bitcoin.net ownership changed - Satoshi is alive January 05, 2014, 02:30:59 AM #5 Quote from: calian on January 05, 2014, 02:15:38 AM The holder of those domains has been known for a while to be Sirius (Martti Malmi)



This isn't so much about figuring out who Satoshi is as it is to showing he IS alive.



It is known that Sirius was given ownership of bitcoin.org but I did not see any mention of bitcoin.net and bitcoins.org. It is possible that when Satoshi handed over bitcoin.org to Sirius he also handed over bitcoin.net and bitcoins.org as well. However, bitcoin.org whois shows it moved Registrar and to a Finish ownership of some sort in 2011. Bitcoin.net and bitcoins.org did not follow the same path. They sat at Anonymousspeech until a couple months ago. This implies that if Satoshi passed ownership of those domains to Sirius along with bitcoin.org in 2011, Sirius continued to keep those domains at Anonymousspeech, paying the higher markup fee charged by that registrar, while moving bitcoin.org to his own registrar. Further, to do this Sirius would have needed to bother with setting up at Anonymousspeech OR satoshi would have given Sirius his own username and password to continue with the registration renewals at this registrar. The latter is *highly* unlikely as Satoshi used an email address provided by the same registrar for anonymous mail (vistomail.com is a webmail service of Anonymousspeech) that was likely tied to the same login.

This isn't so much about figuring out who Satoshi is as it is to showing he IS alive.It is known that Sirius was given ownership of bitcoin.org but I did not see any mention of bitcoin.net and bitcoins.org. It is possible that when Satoshi handed over bitcoin.org to Sirius he also handed over bitcoin.net and bitcoins.org as well. However, bitcoin.org whois shows it moved Registrar and to a Finish ownership of some sort in 2011. Bitcoin.net and bitcoins.org did not follow the same path. They sat at Anonymousspeech until a couple months ago. This implies that if Satoshi passed ownership of those domains to Sirius along with bitcoin.org in 2011, Sirius continued to keep those domains at Anonymousspeech, paying the higher markup fee charged by that registrar, while moving bitcoin.org to his own registrar. Further, to do this Sirius would have needed to bother with setting up at Anonymousspeech OR satoshi would have given Sirius his own username and password to continue with the registration renewals at this registrar. The latter is *highly* unlikely as Satoshi used an email address provided by the same registrar for anonymous mail (vistomail.com is a webmail service of Anonymousspeech) that was likely tied to the same login.

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AdministratorLegendaryActivity: 3878Merit: 7917 Re: Bitcoin.net ownership changed - Satoshi is alive January 05, 2014, 05:08:22 AM #6 I received the domains from an anonymous person who claimed to have worked with Satoshi in the early days. He claimed that Satoshi split up his assets before leaving in order to prevent too much centralization: The SourceForge project to Gavin, bitcoin.org to Sirius, and the two other domains to this anonymous person. 1NXYoJ5xU91Jp83XfVMHwwTUyZFK64BoAD

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NewbieActivity: 46Merit: 0 Re: Bitcoin.net ownership changed - Satoshi is alive January 05, 2014, 07:34:34 AM #7 Quote from: BitTrade on January 05, 2014, 07:02:40 AM Quote from: theymos on January 05, 2014, 05:08:22 AM I received the domains from an anonymous person who claimed to have worked with Satoshi in the early days. He claimed that Satoshi split up his assets before leaving in order to prevent too much centralisation: The SourceForge project to Gavin, bitcoin.org to Sirius, and the two other domains to this anonymous person.

Sounds legit

Sounds legit

Absolutely legit. And I admire that he didn't choose to put it all in The Bitcoin Foundation's hand. I'm just trying to understand how the transfer could happen without Satoshi or at least someone having his login credentials at anonymousspeech.com.



The whois registration of bitcoin[.net][s.org] remained "locked" until Theymos took ownership Nov 2013. (Signup for a trial domaintools account to confirm all of this.) Contrast this with Bitcoin.org which changed from "locked" in May 2011 so that it could be transferred to Sirius. The transfer post-Satoshi pre-Theymos to the "anonymous" owner would have to have happened on Dec 27 2010. Why? Transfer internally between Anonymousspeech accounts would require at least extending the renewal period by one year. The last time those domains had years added was on Dec 27 2010, when the max 5 years were added. So this would have to have been the date that Satoshi handed off to the anonymous owner. It's possible that he did this in 2010 and then took his ride to the space shuttle mid 2011 to never be heard from again. But its also possible he is still alive and made the transfer himself just a couple months ago. Absolutely legit. And I admire that he didn't choose to put it all in The Bitcoin Foundation's hand. I'm just trying to understand how the transfer could happen without Satoshi or at least someone having his login credentials at anonymousspeech.com.The whois registration of bitcoin[.net][s.org] remained "locked" until Theymos took ownership Nov 2013. (Signup for a trial domaintools account to confirm all of this.) Contrast this with Bitcoin.org which changed from "locked" in May 2011 so that it could be transferred to Sirius. The transfer post-Satoshi pre-Theymos to the "anonymous" owner would have to have happened on Dec 27 2010. Why? Transfer internally between Anonymousspeech accounts would require at least extending the renewal period by one year. The last time those domains had years added was on Dec 27 2010, when the max 5 years were added. So this would have to have been the date that Satoshi handed off to the anonymous owner. It's possible that he did this in 2010 and then took his ride to the space shuttle mid 2011 to never be heard from again. But its also possible he is still alive and made the transfer himself just a couple months ago.

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LegendaryActivity: 1302Merit: 1000 Re: Bitcoin.net ownership changed - Satoshi is alive January 05, 2014, 09:52:02 AM #9



the way its being described like its all over secure anonymous networks and you didn't even know them is pretty hilarious



to say someone is anonymous really means here is all the information i possibly know about the person and see



we cannot really have any idea who they are ? well i know we are not being shared this extra information so they are not anonymous it certainly dosn't make much sense even if you don't really know someone by their real name doesn't necessarily mean they are anonymous to youthe way its being described like its all over secure anonymous networks and you didn't even know them is pretty hilariousto say someone is anonymous really means here is all the information i possibly know about the person and seewe cannot really have any idea who they are ? well i know we are not being shared this extra information so they are not anonymous WWW.FACEBOOK.COM



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