Satoshi Nakamoto PGP Key

[PartTimeLegend]

Should be retained for public record. They may one day return, and for
prosperity we must remember them.

[saivann]

I actually wonder why it was removed in the first place? Anyone on this?

[paraipan]

Hi, who is responsible for merging pull requests? Why is this still pending?

[saivann]

Because this pull request is.. 4 days old.

I asked on this pull request why the PGP key was removed in the first place. I think it's a good question to answer before everything.

There is no "one master". Any change that is controversial or non-trivial must get at least one ACK from developers. Sometime more depending on the importance of the change.

[paraipan]

The rule of thumb would be to merge and then ask who removed it, just saying.

I just took a short snapshot of the site history on github and it seems Satoshi's pub key never made it from the start.

[PartTimeLegend]

As a rule of thumb you should never push a commit without peer review.

I did notice the site (on git) never had this key. I just found it odd that it broke the user experience layout.

Alex B notifications@github.com wrote:

The rule of thumb would be to merge and then ask who removed it, just
saying.

I just took a short snapshot of the site history on github and it seems
Satoshi's pub key never made it from the start.

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[paraipan]

Sorry, I meant to say in this case, not as a rule of thumb. I'm Spanish sorry.

[saivann]

I would like the answer of at least one developer just to make sure.

However personally, I would say : ACK

[PartTimeLegend]

Is there an easy way to contact the development team for approval?

I know there is IRC, but I still have brain rot from spending the 90s on it. I better go read QDB to get my fix.

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I would like the answer of at least one developer just to make sure.

However personally, I would say : ACK

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[gmaxwell]

I am concerned by the urgency in including this key. It's normal for pull requests to sit a while to give people time to review.

I'm inclined to reject this pull just on the basis that the urgency concerns me and no clear benefit is described.

[paraipan]

I'm concerned too @gmaxwell but for why was the Satoshi key removed in the first place. Care to clarify?

@saivann said he just waited for a main developer explanation

[PartTimeLegend]

There is no real urgency. I just like consistency.

Doesn't matter if this is merged now, next year or never.

Please note that the urgency was not mentioned by myself. I submitted the pull sometime last week and had ignored it until I got an email. I should be sleeping rather than replying.

Gregory Maxwell notifications@github.com wrote:

I am concerned by the urgency in including this key. It's normal for
pull requests to sit a while to give people time to review.

I'm inclined to reject this pull just on the basis that the urgency
concerns me and no clear benefit is described.

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[theymos]

I can confirm that this is Satoshi's real public key. It has been publicly-known (though maybe obscure) since at least 2010.

[gmaxwell]

@paraipan it was never there in the first place.

[paraipan]

Sorry, I just imagined it was there all along... Will be out for tonight, thanks.

[luke-jr]

@theymos Can you elaborate on how you know this is Satoshi's key? Are you the only one who can vouch for it?

[theymos]

@luke-jr He posted a link to it on the forum. That link doesn't work anymore, but I downloaded it when he posted it. Presumably other people around at that time could also verify.

[carnesen]

FWIW The key in this PR is the same as the one archived by the Wayback Machine

[ABISprotocol]

Satoshi's fingerprint can also be found here where it appears to have been put there by @petertodd ~ pmlaw/The-Bitcoin-Foundation-Legal-Repo@fb70771#diff-d0129f70bb1534be58edb5b8e567d8f0

[harding]

@ABISprotocol Peter just extended the key fingerprint to its full 20 bytes. The shorter key ID was in the original commit for that repository.