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Jr. MemberActivity: 56Merit: 1 Satoshi dumped Bitcoin right after Gavin announced he was going to the CIA. September 28, 2012, 03:44:27 AM Merited by gmaxwell (1) #1 Gavin had just received the alert keys to the Bitcoin network. Right afterwards, he tells Satoshi that he is visiting the CIA. Satoshi leaves for good coincidentally.



This is quoted from the defunct Bruce Wagner Bitcoin podcast:



Bruce Wagner : When was the last time you chatted to satoshi <laugh>

Gavin Andresen: Um... I haven't had email from satoshi in a couple months actually. The last email I sent him I actually told him I was going to talk at the CIA. So it's possible , that.... that may have um had something to with his deciding





Based on this, do you think Gavin fully meets Satoshi's vision for Bitcoin?

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LegendaryActivity: 1064Merit: 1001 Re: Satoshi dumped Bitcoin right after Gavin announced he was going to the CIA. September 28, 2012, 04:31:17 AM #7 Quote from: Desolator on September 28, 2012, 04:25:55 AM WTF are you talking about?! Nobody knows who Satoshi is. People don't just talk to him. There are no secret "alert keys" to the protocol, it's borderline open source so someone would see them.

The "alert keys" he refers to are part of the "signaling mechanism" in the official client. I don't know the exact details but I suspect that the client holds the public key, and if it sees a valid message properly signed (by the private key, or the "alert key") then it will take some action like inform the user that there's a new version, or inform the user there's been a security breach and they need to update as soon as possible.



This would be part of the peer to peer overlay and not part of the blockchain. You can find this public key in the source code of the official client if you look.









The "alert keys" he refers to are part of the "signaling mechanism" in the official client. I don't know the exact details but I suspect that the client holds the public key, and if it sees a valid message properly signed (by the private key, or the "alert key") then it will take some action like inform the user that there's a new version, or inform the user there's been a security breach and they need to update as soon as possible.This would be part of the peer to peer overlay and not part of the blockchain. You can find this public key in the source code of the official client if you look.