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ATTENTION GRABBING. Cypherpunks != mathematicians. I find it very hard to believe that a mathematician who writes 500 page papers invents Bitcoin on the side. M
by bachback 13y ago
ATTENTION GRABBING. Cypherpunks != mathematicians. I find it very hard to believe that a mathematician who writes 500 page papers invents Bitcoin on the side. Mathematicians of this style live in their own world.
- rdl 13y agoThere are some indicators that Satoshi wasn't actually an applied crypto guy for a long period, since he overlooked a few basic things but got some more serious things correct. Might actually be more of a database/distributed systems guy who also knew crypto and finance from more recent interests. I was talking with Adam Back about serious candidates this weekend; maybe 25 known people who could have been Satoshi and are known in the space, but absolutely plausible it could have been and individual or small team who were immersed in it for a few months or years too.