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It's been extremely widely known that whoever created Bitcoin had a strong interest in Hashcash, and perhaps created that or worked on it, for years and years.
by dboreham 6mo ago
It's been extremely widely known that whoever created Bitcoin had a strong interest in Hashcash, and perhaps created that or worked on it, for years and years. If that's the only smoking gun, why didn't we identify Satoshi long ago?
- refulgentis 6mo agoYou're right, "interested in Hashcash" describes dozens of people, and has been a known Satoshi filter for years. The new claim is more specific: between 1997-1999, Back proposed combining Hashcash with b-money, adding inflation adjustment via increasing computational difficulty, and using hash trees for public timestamping. That's most of Bitcoin's architecture in one package, a decade early. The number of people who proposed that particular combination of ideas is much smaller than the number who were merely interested in Hashcash.
- backscratches 6mo agoIn every parallel universe where a different person invents bitcoin, every single one is familiar with becks ideas from a decade earlier.