The author of the post, Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>, was involved in the bitcoin project alongside Satoshi at the very beginning: http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom

The author of the post, Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>, was involved in the bitcoin project alongside Satoshi at the very beginning: http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/137799 http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/137799 He's among a very small group of original authors. He quite literally bought into Bitcoin when it was just an idea.