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It’s funny that people always guess that Satoshi is someone already famous as opposed to someone who is not known.
by adamnemecek 5y ago
It’s funny that people always guess that Satoshi is someone already famous as opposed to someone who is not known.
- psyc 5y agoThank you. I’ve been saying this for years. He could very well have been some listserv lurker who followed the prior art, and just went ahead and solved the outstanding problems on his own. There are far more brilliant programmers out there working quietly, than those who are known. Everybody reaches for a name they know because that’s all that’s available to reach for.
- 1ark 5y agoJust some lurker of that early mailing list, absorbing knowledge that eventually culminated into the code and paper. The number of unknown great programmers is a lot. What I think is interesting is that it was both code and a paper, not only code. So at least a grad student. And likely someone that starts many projects, because they left after only one year. Something else could have gotten more interesting.
- russianbandit 5y agoUnless they really left… RIP.
- 1ark 5y agoSure, at least today that is more probable and maybe by now they truly did pass on. The range of possibilities are of course endless. But at that time, if we take their statement literally[1] they just moved on to other things. 1. https://plan99.net/~mike/satoshi-emails/thread5.html https://plan99.net/~mike/satoshi-emails/thread5.html
- Graffur 5y agoI wonder what could be more interesting
- atatatat 5y agoSomething else, like staying anonymous and/or alive? Also, academia gauntlet graduates aren't the only ones that can write papers.