Why did the author of the white paper feel the need to stay anonymous in the first place? What did he/they know?

Why did the author of the white paper feel the need to stay anonymous in the first place? What did he/they know?

which whitepaper?

*the* whitepaper that started it all

WE CAN'T STOP IT ANYMORE!!!

oh buttcoin?

I dont know what good can come from revealing your identity on the internet

Smart people don't want to be famous

What about vitalik

“He,” was probably one guy apart of a larger team that had been working on the crypto known as bitcoin for many, many years. They all needed to stay anonymous because had evil elements within our and other governments known what they (nsa, Boston Fed/greenspan, cia) were doing it could have been stopped.

hes autistic

Legit oldfags take pride in never having a scrap of personal data on the web. If you were online before 1999 you are probably by default of the cypherpunk mindset without even realising it. If you're into cryptography and network architecture, you definitely are.

Sometimes it's a point of stubborn principle - you consider every scrap of personal data captured by anyone a minor defeat. Other times, it is very important.

that the oracle problem needed solving for the tech to be of any actual societal value

Whoever he or the group of people was understood that to have a truly decentralized entity there cannot be a central leader. It's why Charlie Lee sold all his Litecoin, whether that makes a difference or not.

This.

He knew if there was a future for it that everyone would be looking to them for answers anytime something went wrong and he didn't want that to impair the future of Bitcoin.

That melanin problem needed solving or it would have been an issue for your mom not having my dick

Lmao white men deserve to give all their money to the chink

CryptoNote

Because they didn't want to commit suicide with two shots to the back of the head, get depressed and hang themselves all of a sudden, get randomly mugged by a trenchcoat wearing thug with a silenced Glock, etc. You know all the bad luck that being a big disruptor tends to attract in America.

Would be stranger if it was printed with a NSA letterhead

LMAOOOO actually made me kek

one of these. probably the second one.

It was, in 1996, but without hashcash POW added in. Just google MIT NSAMINT and you'll find the paper on mit's site

>Why did the author of the white paper feel the need to stay anonymous in the first place? What did he/they know?

Nobody knows.

all we know is what was written and hidden in the Genesis block.
inside the coinbase.

'The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks'
>Whoever he or the group of people was understood that to have a truly decentralized entity there cannot be a central leader. It's why Charlie Lee sold all his Litecoin, whether that makes a difference or not.

haha you believe that shit? LOL
Charlie Lee sold his LTC because it was at the absolute ATH and he wasn't going to wait another 6 years to see it get there again. He even said so in an interview and warned people on twitter to be careful.

gimme a break.