BREAKING NEWS: Assange is Alive and Uses Bitcoin Blockchain to Prove it!
Source: Eskipaper
Introduction
Apologies of the second post today but I thought my followers would be interested in this.
Assange did a Reddit AMA today and used it to prove he is a live by repeating the latest block hash fro the bitcoin blockchain.
Source: The Professors' Blog
From Coindesk:
Assange said in the talk:
"Thinking about real-time proof-of-life, intellectually the most interesting one is to take the most recent block in the bitcoin blockchain."
The idea is that as a bitcoin block hash is hard to produce, taking a global network of powerful computers to calculate it in an average interval of 10 minutes, it would be almost impossible to guess the string of letters and numbers.
Here is a link to the full Coindesk article by Alyssa Hertig.
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OMG dudes just chill out - JA is still alive ... there is no conspiracy there
and now that he is the best friend with PEOTUS Drumpf, he will be even better ...
Yes but conspiracies do happen. We are just thinking what if rather than thinking he is dead:)
Just curious... how does this prove he is alive? Couldn't anyone saying they were him reply that way? I think he is alive personally, but I'm just trying to learn more about how this is definitive proof...
Very good point - it used a live twitch video which I think is the best we can get in terms of proof:
Here is the link (for some reason embedding doesn't work):
Thanks for the link :)
You're welcome:)
I was about to say that! :)
I watched the video this morning, it is very convincing but not a full proof to me.
At 1:51:10, he starts to address the question of the proof of life (for the second time actually, first time was at 1:37 about PGP signing). This time, he calls the theories not "silly" but only "a litlle bit silly" because of the amount of people who have seen him alive and should then be part of the "conspiracy", or who should also have been faked or kidnapped. He names John Pilger, his advocate, close friends and family, and the people of the Ecuador embassy as the social proof that would involve a very high cost to fake.
Then for the live aspect of the video, after mentioning the intellectual interest of the block hash, he also criticize the block hash solution because "average Joe" will still have to rely on "crypto experts" to trust the timing proof yielding us back to relying on social proof anyway.
I agree with that, and agree that friend and familly would be very costly to fake, so I'd now need some proof of them claiming they have talked with J.A. and the kidnapped theory would be over.
But the truth, here, is that we always rely on social proof, and that there is a relation of cost to fake a social proof. So the more "reputable" people, the better the social proof. Bitcoin users all know the value of a block hash, they are far more numerous than reliable people who may testimony he is alive. So Bitcoin hash is a great proof of timing since a large crowd will form the social proof and the proof of life is not strong since the cost to fake is still relatively limited for a government considering technology progresses.
I find strange that someone intellectually interested by the question puts forward a limited social proof while right after emphasis the imperfection of the bitcoin timestamp as only being a social proof.
Looks like he saying : it's always social proof anyway, you have one, so theories are "a bit silly".
Well no, as you say, it is only all about cost to fake...
What may explain this surprizing behavior is that he starts with: "I've said it .is a bit silly.." So perhaps he explains what he has said before, probably the first time he heard about these concerns.. and then he digged theorically into the subject, finding that you always rely on social proof and somehow defending his first reaction.
So here is my proof of life process suggestion to close this boring subject:
Ecuador opens the curtains, cams outside film him through one or two mirror such that he can not be shot in straight line by a sniper. There will be many different cams outside, building the social proof. There will be some cams each of us will trust. Let's redondant it with a web live stream and now we can believe it is not CGI.
Cost to fake would be sky high, risk to be shot can become zero. So why not ?
Great points! There is also the theory that he is actually under some form of coercion. The inconsistencies in what he says may be some kind of "message" because he can't openly say what he wants to say. Anyway I don't want to go too far down that road I'm paranoid enough as it is!
It's something we have to be honest about though. Hard as it is to accept, we simply don't know as of now.
I followed the link and put in steem :) I wouldn't have known about it so thanks! :)
Thanks for doing it:)
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Thank you:)
Excellent. Thanks for the update, much appreciated.
You're very welcome. I assumed most media would be ignoring it so thought I would post the link:)
Thanks. Great post. Those videos casting doubt on it were so technically impressive they had many of us wondering. I follow your posts already ;-) Upvoted.
Thank you mate. This is why I stay away from conspiracy now because I don't think I would be able to function any more - it is hard to know what to believe as it is.
I think I would probably end up just going off and living in a remote cabin in the woods!
I did at least hope we were a few years away from this technology but that normally means the military have it anyway!
How can we trust anything anymore? Luckily I avoid MSM as much as I can now.
Lol. You're wiser than some of us. We're all just running around the dark trying to screen what's true from false.
Luckily we can escape MSM easily these days.
Yes I find that I used to be really aggressive and nasty when I used to watch the mainstream news.
You could of seen this hour long interview with him a week ago :)
Lol but he didn't involve Bitcoin so it was invisible to me:)
haha! :)
:)
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Thank you so much :)
The problem with that is that takes some trusting of Fox News. As if they (a single network or broadcaster) couldn't be involved in a scheme.
(nowadays these videos can be faked and even identity itself could potentially be stolen... in skin)
I am hopeful that this was a legit Proof of Life by JA and not staged by anyone else impersonating him on an account. Time will tell.
Good update by you, thanks for that
I think it is the best we can get. I suppose CGI is almost at the level where a video is hard to believe though!
Indeed, live video is no solid proof anymore :
Amazing!
Yeah... I have to be honest here. I seriously doubt the "evidence" so far.
I wonder what will happen when clone technology is perfected and there is no way to tell whether or not someone is a clone or the original
I hope I am dead by then and in another cloned body lol!
Don't forget the hologram egg in the 2nd installment of the Ocean's 11 movie series lol
(Ocean's 12) -- w Catherine Zeta-Jones as the cop overseeing the Faberge Egg. I hope you are getting some down time away from the computer.