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It's an open secret that based on many crypto experts and the ones who knew Hal Finney personally that he's the original author or one of the original authors o
by teleforce 3y ago
It's an open secret that based on many crypto experts and the ones who knew Hal Finney personally that he's the original author or one of the original authors of Bitcoin [1],[2],[3]. Apparently coding has certain style and signature, and everyone coding style is different especially C program where freestyle is the norm, in which the original Bitcoin codes was originally written in C. It's also claimed by some experts that the original coding for Bitcoin code released by the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto has Hal's "fingerprint" all over it [3],[4].
[1] Hal Finney and Bitcoin's Earliest Days:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-MBB-26228 https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-MBB-26228
[2] Remembering Hal Finney on the 14th Anniversary of the First Bitcoin Transaction:
https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/01/12/remembering-hal-finney-on-the-14th-anniversary-of-the-first-bitcoin-transaction/ https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/01/12/remem...
[3] The Developer Who Discovered Bitcoin's Original Codebase, Jim Blasko:
https://hackernoon.com/the-developer-who-discovered-bitcoins-original-codebase-jim-blasko https://hackernoon.com/the-developer-who-discovered-bitcoins...
[4] Uncovering Satoshi Nakamoto? A Look into the Techniques Used to Search for Bitcoins Creator:
https://blockchainindustrygroup.org/uncovering-satoshi-nakamoto-a-look-into-the-techniques-used-to-search-for-bitcoins-creator/ https://blockchainindustrygroup.org/uncovering-satoshi-nakam...
- mortallywounded 3y agoDave Kleimen is an interesting candidate for Satoshi, but I can't get by the way he died and yet didn't touch the vault of coins. It's hard to imagine... I don't think he had the technical chops for it either. Len Sassaman is still the top candidate in my book.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> Len Sassaman is still the top candidate in my book. I agree with this judgement. Another hot candidate is in my opinion Nick Szabo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo).
- mortallywounded 3y agoAdam Back is distant third after Len and Nick... I'd wager Satoshi is/was one of them!
- mike_hearn 3y agoThis is nonsense. The original Bitcoin code was written in C++, not C which Hal always preferred to use, and Satoshi's style was very different to Hal's.