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"Satoshi Nakamoto was a highly skilled computer scientist" Nonsense. If you actually look at Satoshi's work, he was almost certainly an amateur and a cryptogr
by betterunix 13y ago
"Satoshi Nakamoto was a highly skilled computer scientist"
Nonsense. If you actually look at Satoshi's work, he was almost certainly an amateur and a cryptography enthusiast. That some software is popular is not an indication that it is the work of a highly skilled computer scientist; here is a simple and obvious counterexample:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Kernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Kernel
- nixme 13y agoDid you even read the article? That statement is prefaced by "According to what seems to be a widely accepted origin story of Bitcoin, ...", meaning that's what many people assume. Then right after, his thesis is to contrast that: "I would argue that Satoshi is actually Nick Szabo himself, probably together with one or more technical collaborators"
- betterunix 13y agoDid you read the article? He is saying that Satoshi was someone with experience as a researcher, someone who had authored many articles in the past. The Bitcoin whitepaper and Bitcoin itself suggest nothing of the sort; they suggest that Bitcoin was the work of someone with limited research experience.
- haliax 13y agoI'm guessing this has something to do with your username, so what is the better unix? BSD? Minix?
- betterunix 13y agohttp://www.uniforum.org/publications/ufm/aug96/unix-nt.html http://www.uniforum.org/publications/ufm/aug96/unix-nt.html