Does the diagram actually show something? It kinda looks like a uniform distribution.

With an unhelpful Voronoi diagram on top.

What are the "clusters" clustering anyway... no info on what properties we're indexing here

> While pursuing this approach, I've lost everything in my life and now find myself in financial and personal ruin. Just as I was losing hope, I extracted Satoshi's public keys and noticed a pattern. The letter 'S' in Satoshi corresponds to the 19th letter in the English alphabet, and in Japanese culture, 19 symbolizes 'intense suffering', which mirrors my current life situation..

humor?

Most definitely it is.

>Could it be possible that Satoshi had found a way to 'break' the elliptic curve as early as 2009?

>Is there a chance that these public keys represent a puzzle, intentionally designed by Satoshi, awaiting a solution?

If you feel happier believing that then you are free to do so. Each of us have our own fantasies.

Due to the tendency to patch and mitigate known security vulnerabilities, there is a norm within cryptography to assume that parties will possess technologies which are more advanced than are publicly disclosed.

>there is a norm within cryptography to assume that parties will possess technologies which are more advanced than are publicly disclosed

Who? Satoshi? Pseudonymous C++ programmer coding digital cash experiment in his home. Satoshi wasn't a cryptographer[0].

[0] https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-was-not-a-cryptograph...

Well, who was in Satoshi’s orbit, and did Satoshi have an employer?

I know it is a fantasy but the real "Satoshi" responding to this post would do unfathomable things to Bitcoin right now. I just enjoyed the thought of it for a second.

Satoshi is dead, unfortunately.

He died, yes. But then He rose again.

Unfortunately they sealed the tomb with a cryptographically-secure boulder this time and they've been waiting patiently in the dark for someone to decipher the pattern in the public keys so they can be released.

(Obligatory disclaimer: this is a joke, do not go making a religion out of this.)

But was it military-grade encryption?

Who was it, do you think?

My money's on Hal Finney.

How do you reconcile this with the fact that Satoshi sent both an email and a bitcoin transaction while Hal was busy running a 10 mile race? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37974155

Most likely Szabo.

There's no way it was Szabo, although Szabo likes people to think it was him. Szabo's ideas for p2p currency were directly opposed to the structure of bitcoin, and he continued professing these views and critiques of bitcoin long after bitcoin was launched and achieved some measure of success.

Wait, is Nick Szabo dead? I find conflicting information on the Net.

I think if OP was serious about solving a real mystery here, they would have posted to a cryptography forum, not 'bitcointalk'.