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Sergio Demian Lerner
Personal blog · bitslog.wordpress.comsecurityeconomics
Sergio Demian Lerner writes Bitslog, a personal blog at bitslog.wordpress.com about security and economics. Since 2012, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 86 times, most often “The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Sergio Demian Lerner's blog analyses Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoin holdings and mining history, and critiques Bitmessage's cryptography. Commenters cite it as the source for estimates of Satoshi's coins.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Words on Bitcoin Design, Privacy, Security and Crypto, by Sergio Demian Lerner
Most-linked posts?
- The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2013-04-18
- The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi, Bitcoin creator, Visionary and Genius4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-04-17
- A new mystery about Satoshi hidden in the Bitcoin blockchain3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-09-03
- Satoshi‘s Fortune: a more accurate figure3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-27
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-07-18
- Uncle Mining, an Ethereum Consensus Protocol Flaw2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-29
- Leaf-Node Weakness in Bitcoin Merkle Tree Design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-10
- /2012/11/30/bitmessage-completely-broken-crypto/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-30
- Ethereum “Dagger” PoW function is flawed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-17
What Hacker News says?
Some time ago I read this: https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-f... Not sure how effective this is, but if this is true then Satoshi has been awarded most of the bitcoins.
Comment linking /2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-fortune-of-satoshi-nakamoto/
on “Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto”Submitted The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator as a story · 273 points
HN discussionAFAIK Bitcoin early-mined blocks were mined and are still owned by its creator. So it's perfectly ok to be cynical about Bitcoin as well. Edit: Some details here https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-f...
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on “Introducing Token”Submitted How you will not uncover Satoshi as a story · 165 points
HN discussionNot just that - outing satoshi could cause him and any close family significant danger, given that there is a strong chance he is in possession of the secret keys of addresses containing 1M bitcoins. https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-f...
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on “Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius?”Submitted Leaf-Node Weakness in Bitcoin Merkle Tree Design as a story · 135 points
HN discussionHere's a detailed analysis (just under 1M BTC; I'm not sure why I remembered 1.5M): http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-fo... http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/satoshi-s-fortune-a-...
Comment linking /2013/04/24/satoshi-s-fortune-a-more-accurate-figure/
on “I Am Not Satoshi”Submitted DagCoin: a cryptocurrency without blocks as a story · 56 points
HN discussionIt's theorised they have ~1m bitcoins, at 10k each that's a 10 billion net-worth. Presumably that's enough for people to want to hunt them down and coerce them into giving up private keys https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-f...
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on “Bitcoin hits $10,000”Submitted Ethereum “Dagger” proof-of-work function is flawed as a story · 50 points
HN discussionI am a cofounder of a company in this space and three people in my company are in a position to understand it very well. For example Sergio who also blogs here: https://bitslog.wordpress.com
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on “ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency”Submitted A new mystery about Satoshi hidden in the Bitcoin blockchain as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> do large mining operations network their miners so that they don't overlap their hashes Interestingly, it's hypothesized that Satoshi did this: > He suggested that Satoshi had access to 58 machines for mining, so to avoid checking the same nonce twice he gave each machine a different id, which was stamped in the LSB of the nonce. https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/new-mystery-about-s...
Comment linking /2013/09/03/new-mystery-about-satoshi/
on “Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?”Submitted The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi, Bitcoin creator, Visionary and Genius as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMost of his fortune is directly traceable from early mining activity: http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/satoshi-s-fortune-a-...
Comment linking /2013/04/24/satoshi-s-fortune-a-more-accurate-figure/
on “Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi ”Submitted Satoshi‘s Fortune: a more accurate figure as a story · 5 points
HN discussionone of the critical aspects of Bitcoin's success is that there was no premine Satoshi has about a million bitcoin: https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-f...
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on “Zcash begins”Submitted MAVE: digital signature protocol for massive bulk verifications as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI like how everyone has moved on to ignoring the fact that 5-10% of all Bitcoin are controlled by an unknown party. Would this be acceptable in any other currency? https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-f...
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on “CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10”Submitted SmartSPV – A better Simplified Payment Verification for Smartphones as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you want to read more information about Satoshi you can take a look at this researched blog post: A new mystery about Satoshi hidden in the Bitcoin block-chain http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/new-mystery-about-sa...
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on “Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto”Submitted MinCen: A new protocol to achieve instant payments as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFrom what I've heard, Satoshi's coins are spread around a lot of 50 btc wallets, and they're not so much known to be Satoshi's as suspected to be hers because there seems to have only been one person mining the blockchain at the start [1]. As other people started running the clients, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell Satoshi from any other miner. So though Satoshi may never have spent the bitcoins mined when…
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on “Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto”Submitted Block ciphers modes with forward secrecy for Cryptocat/OTR as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you are interested in Sergio's insightful trip don't miss his story: https://bitslog.wordpress.com/about/ Disclaimer: he co-founded one of my companies.
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on “Leaf-Node Weakness in Bitcoin Merkle Tree Design”Submitted MAVEPAY: a new lightweight payment scheme for peer to peer currency networks as a story · 4 points
HN discussionObviously it's not vaporware but there are many discussions about their implementation behind the scenes such as "Ethereum “Dagger” PoW function is flawed" [1] and "Changes in Ethereum scripting language" [2]. [1] http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/ethereum-dagger-pow-... [2] https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/changes-in-ethereum...
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on “Ethereum pre-sale hits 12.7M$, still 27 days to go”Submitted Leaf-Node Weakness in Bitcoin Merkle Tree Design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat's fine though, because at that point our theory has been proven wrong. So I propose we take the best guess that fits the available evidence and act accordingly. In this case, that action has already been taken: to notify Bitstamp that if the person trading those coins is an associate of Mt. Gox, then there's a high probability that illegal trades are occurring on their servers. This would let them take an actio…
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on “Mt. Gox's Bitcoins are being sold on Bitstamp?”Submitted Uncle Mining, an Ethereum Consensus Protocol Flaw as a story · 3 points
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