His name was also on the mailing list where Satoshi Nakamoto first announced Bitcoin. According to Peter Todd, a well-known Bitcoin expert and developer, the two have previously met to discuss how Bitcoin/blockchains can be used for verifying documents.
If you are not going to believe  Peter Todd,who are you going to believe?Members of this forum?
I think the article is faked as there was not admission by Julian Assange that he ever met Satoshi and if he had met him,Satoshi identity were known to other people giving protection to Assange.
There is also no proof that the message sent was from Assange.

I think they (Assange & Satoshi) may have emailed one another once. Not sure how that turned into Peter Todd saying they met, I doubt Peter Todd said that.

that would actually make a lot of sense.

Well, that's some serious conspiracy there... But aside from the fact that it is very improbable, is there any analysis? Like if a style of writing is somewhat similar to Satoshi's one.


So, is Bitcoinist a trusted source or not? And I'm not talking only about this particular case, but also about other articles from them in general.

That is pure speculation. He is from computer science world, Julians know current technologies very well because he MUST. How to encrypt data, communication he know everything in tech world, so he knows bitcoin too. He understand how blocks are calculated and that reciting new block hash is better than reading current newspaper

" Julian
Assange has made history as the first
public figure to use the Bitcoin blockchain as a proof-of-life.Although he did make a small mistake when reading out the
block hash....,"
I wouldn't say so after reading this

He wouldn't be that stupid to reveal that Satoshi Nakamoto is his friend or something. If he spoke to Satoshi, the only way I can think about is through some encrypted chat where his identity would be 10000% anonymous. And Assange wouldn't even know if he is the real one .. no matter how important you are as a person, you cannot reveal yourself even if it's a hacker like Assange.

Sure someone could have met Satoshi, possibly Julian Assnge should have made a good conversation with him regarding bitcoin. Recently Assange too made statements supporting bitcoin and digital currencies to be the money of future.

First we look at the time  when the post was made was it before 2009 if it is done on that year then possibly they met. But looking at the article it
was possibly done just recently and so its hard to determine if that article is true or not. If he really met satoshi nakamoto then there mustbe something from him that can help bitcoin issues today. If he did not met satoshi then he probably just made up those things to get popularity.

I'm slightly amazed that everyone in the thread (apparently) still believes the back-stories to people like Assange and Snowden, there are alot of good questions without answers about their respective histories. More than anything else, Assange and Snowden fit perfectly with a "drip-feed" model of upsetting the perceptions of the regular population by gradually revealing what living in the 21st Century means.

If any big political player didn't like what Assange or Snowden are doing, they could (and would) be stopped. It's really that simple. I mean, these deep-state characters shot the US president in the head, in a massive public appearance, and that's how few fucks they gave 50 years ago. I think they could handle a couple of limp-wristed computer hackers, don't you?