The Newsweek Credibility Matrix

Dorian is not Satoshi Nakamoto, and "Satoshi Nakamoto", as presumed all along, is a pseudonym for an anonymous person or persons.

Dorian is not Satoshi Nakamoto. If he was, he would have used the money for his health, house and general happiness.

Dorian's first and best language is Japanese, yet he never translated the Bitcoin GUI to that language, instead allowing contributions for Italian, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Lithuanian and Czech. In fact, there is still no Japanese translation.

Dorian did not see a market for Bitcoin in Japan/Japanese.

Dorian is not Satoshi Nakamoto. In all likelihood, the real Satoshi's native language is English, and he is not fluent in Japanese.

In Newsweek, Goodman writes:

"Andresen says Satoshi Nakamoto told him about how long it took him to develop Bitcoin - a span that falls squarely into Dorian S. Nakamoto's job lapse starting in 2001."

In a rare admission of personal detail, Nakamoto himself states in this post that he did not start working on it until 2007.

Maybe he spent those six years thinking about it, but he just didn't start development until 2007. While unemployed for those six years, his only presence on the internet was to occasionally discuss model trains or guns, but not anything related to cryptography, open source code or anything else even tangentially related to Bitcoin – so he must have been thinking.

Dorian is not Satoshi Nakamoto, and Goodman is just outright incorrect that Bitcoin's development falls "squarely" into Dorian's job loss.

He lost his job in 2001 and Bitcoin development didn't start for another six years. Based on the article details and the online posts we can attribute to Dorian, since 2001, Dorian's life has been a series of misfortunes, health problems and a lot of model trains.

He did not, in that time, create Bitcoin.

Satoshi's confirmed P2PFoundation account lists his age as 38. Dorian is 64.

Despite Dorian using his real name of "Satoshi Nakamoto", perhaps he is masking his age for his own reasons.

Dorian is not Satoshi Nakamoto, and "Age: 38", like the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" itself, provides no insight into who Bitcoin's author is.

Bitcoin was written in C++, and synthesizing all the complex mathematical ideas into code requires a deep understanding of the language. The article suggests that Dorian worked as a software engineer some time between Sept. 11, 2001 and the end of 2001, but nowhere else does it suggest he is a developer or programmer, much less is capable of writing Bitcoin v0.1 in C++.

Dorian is an expert at C++ but honed his craft in secrecy. "Nakamoto worked as a software engineer" at the FAA, according to the article, and C++ is a common language. He also may have used it in many of the classified projects he has worked on in the past.

Dorian is not Satoshi Nakamoto.

Dorian may know C++ – it's hard to guess since his entire career is largely a mystery – but if he does know the language, like most everyone he does not know it to the advanced degree required to write the Bitcoin v0.1 protocol.

And just a note: this is not meant to disparage Dorian. He may be an incredibly talented physicist and systems engineer, but Bitcoin is such a monumental achievement that Dorian would have to be absolutely at the top of his field (multiple fields, actually) to be able to have produced Bitcoin.

The real Satoshi was keenly aware of the history of digital currency, and considered himself part of the community. In his posts he references Digicash, Bit gold, and many others. When referring to Bitcoin – a piece of software he alone wrote – he consistently uses "we" to refer to himself and the community:

"I think this is the first time we're trying a decentralized, non-trust-based system."

"I would be surprised if 10 years from now we're not using electronic currency in some way, now that we know a way to do it that won't inevitably get dumbed down when the trusted third party gets cold feet."

There is no evidence that Dorian has any historical knowledge of digital currency, nor was he ever publicly part of any online community, except the model train community.

Dorian is not Satoshi Nakamoto, and never participated in the community. In all likelihood, he has no interest in digital currency (remember, he "has never communicated with Bitcoins").

Prior to using the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym, the real Satoshi was almost certainly a part of the cryptography/digital currency community, and every other previously speculated suspect has been tied to the community in some way.

The original Bitcoin client seeded its connections through the IRC network Freenode. Freenode is well-known as the host to chat rooms for major open source projects (Bitcoin among them). If Dorian was indeed Satoshi, this would suggest he has some affiliation with the open source community in the past – for example, through previously committed code or online conversation.

However, there is no indication that he has ever contributed to any open source projects, is familiar with IRC or Freenode, or has been part of the open source community.

Use of WTF and AFAIK in the same message

Of all the sentences Satoshi Nakamoto has ever written, I would identify this one as the "Most Unlikely To Be Written By A 64-Year-Old Japanese Man".

WTF? How did we get on that? AFAIK, the only e-mail is if you tell the forum to do notifications, and I guess the wiki registration. I'd consider turning off the forum notification e-mails, I don't know why we have that. (Source)

Use of 'sweet'

I don't know the etymology of "sweet" when used as an exclamation is, but it makes me chuckle to think of Dorian sitting at his computer and typing this sentence.

Sweet, I was looking for a group like that on Usenet at one point to see what I would use if I needed, and nothing really fit. I'm sure Google groups is a lot easier to post to. (Source)

Use of 'OP' and '+1'

These two terms are common in the realm of internet forums (Reddit and 4Chan come to mind with respect to "OP"), but are relatively uncommon anywhere else. They suggest that the real Satoshi had a fairly extensive background in participating in internet discussions. This is not to say that Dorian did not have a similar background, but the only posts we've found officially linked to Dorian do not demonstrate that kind of experience.

+1 theymos. Don't use this patch, it'll make you incompatible with the network, to your own detriment.

The OP's example of listtransactions [count=10] [txid] seems to imply and it would be very easy for programmers to assume that if they pass in the last txid of the previous call to listtransactions, they will never see the same transaction more than once, which is not the case.

On the OP's question, it's a good feature, but the question is, how would we word it so people don't expect to get something after that specific amount of time?

What the OP described is called "cornering the market". When someone tries to buy all the world's supply of a scarce asset, the more they buy the higher the price goes. At some point, it gets too expensive for them to buy any more. It's great for the people who owned it beforehand because they get to sell it to the corner at crazy high prices. As the price keeps going up and up, some people keep holding out for yet higher prices and refuse to sell.

Use of 'kinda'

Again, could a 64-year-old non-native English speaker use 'kinda'? Maybe! But I consider it enough of a colloquial mutation of correct English that it would be unlikely for a non-native speaker to default to that word.

I guess that would be kinda annoying for web interfaces that would rather format it into html columns though.

Yeah, the other stealth stuff would be kinda pointless if it's always the same port number.