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December 6, 2013 01:16 am GMT
The Internet did something strange last week. When a researcher named Skye Grey posted a detailed analysis of textual biases in the writing of shadowing Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and a researcher named Nick Szabo at George Washington University, the interest was muted but optimistic. Did Grey, who declined to go into much personal detail, crack the code? Or was it, as always, just a matter of lucky conjecture. Whether or not Satoshi is a real person, group of people, or some sort of government entity is important. It gives closure to the currency’s origin story and it can confirm or deny a whole host of rumors and innuendo bandied about in the fringier corners of the bitcoin market. If BTC were a way to get us out from under the government, why is Satoshi so secretive? While Grey’s analysis is still being proved or disproved, the process, in the end, is fascinating. Given that Grey’s analysis was, on the surface, solid, I reached out for a short interview. TC: Tell me about yourself. Why did you do this study? SG: Originally it was simple curiosity that drew me to the question. I like mysteries. Then I decided to publish what I found for two reasons: - so that other people could attack my method and findings, or validate them. I want certitudes, and keeping for me what I had found would not get me anywhere. - so as to address people’s concerns that a “bad guy” might have created Bitcoin. I think this question is what could harm the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin in the near future. TC: How sure are you it’s Nick Szabo? SG: I am not certain it’s Nick Szabo, but I have quite a few independent pieces of evidence pointing in his direction, each one interesting in itself: - text analysis (only 0.1% of cryptography researchers could have produced this writing style –again, please, attack my methods on this) - fact that Nick was searching for technical collaborators on the bit gold project (a very similar cryptocurrency) a few months before the announcement of Bitcoin (and then the bit gold project became perfectly silent) - lack of citation of Nick’s work by Satoshi, whereas he cited other, less related cryptocurrencies - lack of reaction on Nick’s part about Bitcoin, whereas a decentralized currency like Bitcoin had been a major project of his for 10 years
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Who Is The Real Satoshi Nakamoto? One Researcher May Have Found The Answer
The Internet did something strange last week. When a researcher named Skye Grey posted a detailed analysis of textual biases in the writing of shadowing Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and a researcher named Nick Szabo at George Washington University, the interest was muted but optimistic. Did Grey, who declined to go into much personal detail, crack the code? Or was it, as always, just a matter of lucky conjecture. Whether or not Satoshi is a real person, group of people, or some sort of government entity is important. It gives closure to the currency’s origin story and it can confirm or deny a whole host of rumors and innuendo bandied about in the fringier corners of the bitcoin market. If BTC were a way to get us out from under the government, why is Satoshi so secretive? While Grey’s analysis is still being proved or disproved, the process, in the end, is fascinating. Given that Grey’s analysis was, on the surface, solid, I reached out for a short interview. TC: Tell me about yourself. Why did you do this study? SG: Originally it was simple curiosity that drew me to the question. I like mysteries. Then I decided to publish what I found for two reasons: - so that other people could attack my method and findings, or validate them. I want certitudes, and keeping for me what I had found would not get me anywhere. - so as to address people’s concerns that a “bad guy” might have created Bitcoin. I think this question is what could harm the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin in the near future. TC: How sure are you it’s Nick Szabo? SG: I am not certain it’s Nick Szabo, but I have quite a few independent pieces of evidence pointing in his direction, each one interesting in itself: - text analysis (only 0.1% of cryptography researchers could have produced this writing style –again, please, attack my methods on this) - fact that Nick was searching for technical collaborators on the bit gold project (a very similar cryptocurrency) a few months before the announcement of Bitcoin (and then the bit gold project became perfectly silent) - lack of citation of Nick’s work by Satoshi, whereas he cited other, less related cryptocurrencies - lack of reaction on Nick’s part about Bitcoin, whereas a decentralized currency like Bitcoin had been a major project of his for 10 yearsOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/CsCqEdQG1ic/
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