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I'm also voting for Hal. He was responsible for large parts of PGP and the extensible protocol design there largely reminded me of Bitcoin (coincidentally I stu
by Boulth 7y ago
I'm also voting for Hal. He was responsible for large parts of PGP and the extensible protocol design there largely reminded me of Bitcoin (coincidentally I studied technical intricacies of both).
Also this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372117
- dmix 7y agoI could easily see an American programmer talented enough to create something like Bitcoin using a Japanese cover name as well.
- Boulth 7y agoNot to mention the writing times that would rather point to someone in America rather than Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Characteristics_and_identity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Characteristi...