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Now try Satoshi Nakamoto with bitcointalk posts and papers in cryptography.

by shiado 8y ago

MatrixAlgebra 8y ago
Oh, he's James Madison.
ianseyer 8y ago
https://towardsdatascience.com/stylometric-analysis-satoshi-nakamoto-294926cdf995 https://towardsdatascience.com/stylometric-analysis-satoshi-...
clubm8 8y ago
This assumes Satoshi discusses such things under a nym tied to his real name or IP. I have a suite of nyms I created over Tor, and exclusively use via Tor, which I use to discuss certain topics. It's hard to do a stylometric analysis when you don't have anything to compare to. Professional writing is very different from informal conversation. If someone doesn't have a Facebook, gmail, twitter, etc it would be very difficult to find that person through stylometric analysis IMHO.
- shiado 8y ago
  It would definitely be hard to do. And my personal suspicion is that Satoshi is a group of individuals, making such an analysis almost impossible. However there is the possibility that there is some sort of "linguistic fingerprint" capable of uniquely identifying Satoshi, despite what I believe to be their efforts to create a highly specific and unique style of writing for the purposes of evading identification. The way the Unabomber used a certain phrase in the manifesto and a letter to a family member was what got him caught. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can%27t_have_your_cake_and_eat_it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can%27t_have_your_cake_and... Another interesting analysis would be to compare the structure of code between the early bitcoin code and code written by likely suspects. Perhaps variable naming convention will identify Satoshi. https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin
  - clubm8 8y ago
    >my personal suspicion is that Satoshi is a group of individuals, making such an analysis almost impossible I agree. My bet is at least two: one theory heavy "ideas guy" and one more software engineering oriented programmer who did the heavy lifting on implementation. And I have also noticed that these types of analysis are for single authored documents. I suspect it will stay a secret for a long time... maybe we'll get some deathbed confessions in a few decades.

Now try Satoshi Nakamoto with bitcointalk posts and papers in cryptography.

by shiado 8y ago

Now try Satoshi Nakamoto with bitcointalk posts and papers in cryptography.

MatrixAlgebra 8y ago

Oh, he's James Madison.

ianseyer 8y ago

https://towardsdatascience.com/stylometric-analysis-satoshi-nakamoto-294926cdf995 https://towardsdatascience.com/stylometric-analysis-satoshi-...

clubm8 8y ago

This assumes Satoshi discusses such things under a nym tied to his real name or IP. I have a suite of nyms I created over Tor, and exclusively use via Tor, which I use to discuss certain topics. It's hard to do a stylometric analysis when you don't have anything to compare to. Professional writing is very different from informal conversation. If someone doesn't have a Facebook, gmail, twitter, etc it would be very difficult to find that person through stylometric analysis IMHO.

shiado 8y ago
It would definitely be hard to do. And my personal suspicion is that Satoshi is a group of individuals, making such an analysis almost impossible. However there is the possibility that there is some sort of "linguistic fingerprint" capable of uniquely identifying Satoshi, despite what I believe to be their efforts to create a highly specific and unique style of writing for the purposes of evading identification. The way the Unabomber used a certain phrase in the manifesto and a letter to a family member was what got him caught. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can%27t_have_your_cake_and_eat_it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can%27t_have_your_cake_and... Another interesting analysis would be to compare the structure of code between the early bitcoin code and code written by likely suspects. Perhaps variable naming convention will identify Satoshi. https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin
- clubm8 8y ago
  >my personal suspicion is that Satoshi is a group of individuals, making such an analysis almost impossible I agree. My bet is at least two: one theory heavy "ideas guy" and one more software engineering oriented programmer who did the heavy lifting on implementation. And I have also noticed that these types of analysis are for single authored documents. I suspect it will stay a secret for a long time... maybe we'll get some deathbed confessions in a few decades.