I found that entire section amusing. Some choice quotes: > So does Bitcoin. A Bitcoin user has two keys: a public key, from which an address is derived that ac

I found that entire section amusing. Some choice quotes: > So does Bitcoin. A Bitcoin user has two keys: a public key, from which an address is derived that acts as a digital safe deposit box; and a private key, which is the secret combination used to unlock that box and spend the coins it contains. > How interesting, I thought, that Mr. Back’s grad-school hobby involved the same cryptographic technique that Satoshi had repurposed. > And Mr. Back’s thesis project focused on C++ — the same programming language Satoshi used to code the first version of the Bitcoin software. public key encryption and c++! It must be him.