Because of the abundance of self-proclaiming Satoshi Nakamotos surfacing lately, the market saw an App enabling anyone to become the inventor.
From today onwards, any person having some hit on programming can successfully issue proof showing that he/she is the real developer, anyone can validate a signature by the genesis block, which is the first ever block to be mined on the chain.
Numerous claimants have appeared and vanished over the past few years, as
by Coinidol. Among all those pretenders is Craig Wright – the popular figure behind
– a that resulted from the hard fork of Cash (BCH) in November 2018.
Recently, Craig presented definitive proof of him being the genuine Nakamoto when he accepted to swear an oath to the United State (U.S.) Commodity Futures Commission (CFTC). This substantial effort was skeptically digested by the community.
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Recently, the team of the Albacore startup rolled out an App which enables anybody to link a message to the genesis block. Meaning that anybody who needs to claim the ownership can successfully prove they are indeed the developer.
It is very possible to make a signature and a message hash which will be authenticated against the address that developed the block.
However, the entire story rather seems like a joke to mock those striving to prove they were the original developer of . Or maybe it was the idea of the very Satoshi Nakamoto to cover up his tracks even more. Anyway, it seems the community knows making a signature is not enough. To prove that you really are the developer you would need to at least move funds from the originally known as Nakamoto’s.
The major idea Albacore had when developing their tool was to increase people’s understanding of crypto and technologies, to teach them to be more cautious and tell obvious fraudsters from nice guys.
Published at Sat, 23 Feb 2019 16:13:56 +0000
