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Here are the slides from a talk that Dan Kaminsky gave about Bitcoin at Toorcon Seattle a couple years ago: http://www.slideshare.net/dakami/bitcoin-8776098 htt
by clarkm 14y ago
Here are the slides from a talk that Dan Kaminsky gave about Bitcoin at Toorcon Seattle a couple years ago: http://www.slideshare.net/dakami/bitcoin-8776098 http://www.slideshare.net/dakami/bitcoin-8776098
I like his "Security Inversion" slide:
> Normal Code:
> * Looks like it might be OK up front
> * Scratch the surface, it's actually really bad
> Bitcoin:
> * Looks really bad up front
> * Scratch the surface, it's actually surprisingly good
> * We aren't used to systems with these characteristics
> * This code has the mark of having been audited by People Like Us
- fossuser 14y agoThese weird coincidences along with bitcoin's very strange start (the pseudonym, the fact that it seems like a group worked on it) are really interesting. I'm surprised there's not more discussion about who really created it.
- asperous 14y agoThe person that wrote the paper probably wanted it to go along with the idea of decentralization that bitcoin is all about. More then likely it's someone on the bitcoin.org board or perhaps even a group of people on that board.
- pdog 14y agoNew Yorker article from October 2011 about Bitcoin and its mysterious creator. Found two possible candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity from clues in his posts and his code. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_davis http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_...