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Did Satoshi Nakamoto Write This Book Excerpt?
- celticninja 8y agoI'm going to go out on a limb and say this is another hoax. If it genuinely was Nakamoto they would not provide such detailed family information. There cannot be many publishing companies, even small ones, created by a woman, we would assume 50 years ago if it was his grandmother. Then we are looking for one with a daughter who is an author and narrow down from there based on whether they had children of a relevant age.
- gwern 8y agoHighly unlikely and looks like a creative fiction writing exercise. Author did some homework (looked at the Bitcoin prototype, Trammell & Dai emails, and forum analyses) but not enough, and makes some pretty glaring omissions: where's the goldbug aspect? Why was he so interested in online poker? Why does the PDF author claim to have not known of Usenet timestamping initially, when reading the Trammell emails shows he clearly was familiar with Usenet before it came up? Why the lame excuse 'my writing style has changed' (much for the worse, as well) for why it sounds nothing like Satoshi? Why the casual mention of AS without mentioning that the sum total use of AS would have been a boatload of money for a 20yo, especially one also supposedly paying for a bunch of servers doing CPU-mining for years? Why the antiquated C++ coding style especially if he is supposedly super young? Why use AWS, which is hardly very anonymous? And he's switched wordprocessing software too? etc. (A lazy exercise too. At least the 'Satoshi Nakamoto' from last year went to the trouble of providing 'draft' whitepaper and sample source code, rather than a rambling 20-page memoir which hasn't been spellchecked.)
- senatorobama 8y ago> Why the antiquated C++ coding style especially if he is supposedly super young? Has anyone pattern matched Satoshi's original code with existing code in academia from the 90s/early 2000s?
- noloblo 8y agowho was the SN from last year who provided draft whitepaper and sample source code?
- noloblo 8y agoWhy the casual mention of AS without mentioning that the sum total use of AS would have been a boatload of money for a 20yo, especially one also supposedly paying for a bunch of servers doing CPU-mining for years? What is AS?
- natecavanaugh 8y agoI had the same question and the only thing I could find was maybe a reference to ASIC, hardware specifically designed to mine Bitcoin. But I'm not 100% sure if that's what gwern was referring to, but seems to make sense in context.
- gwern 8y agoAnonymousSpeech.
- gwern 8y agoThey were pseudonymous of course, and disappeared after emailing a bunch of Bitcoiners like myself and discovering no one was interested.
- KaoruAoiShiho 8y agoDumb fraud. True and indisputable verification is so easy that any cloak and shadows semi-believable mimicry lacking proof can be simply dismissed out of hand.
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- sarreph 8y agoA great case in point for Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...