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Here's a couple more stylistic quirks that jump out on a very cursory glance at Nakamoto's public postings. (Disclaimer: I know nothing about Bitcoin but am a p

Here's a couple more stylistic quirks that jump out on a very cursory glance at Nakamoto's public postings. (Disclaimer: I know nothing about Bitcoin but am a pretty experienced copy-editor. None of these are remotely conclusive, just more incremental evidence.) Satoshi Nakamoto uses double spaces after sentence-final; so does Nick Szabo. "Interestingly" is a distinctive word, especially at sentence-initial. Both Nakamoto and Szabo use this. Hyphenated "e-mail" has been on the way out for a few years; I still use it but I've been in a minority for a long time. Again, both Nakamoto and Szabo use this. (I'd be interested to see if anyone can find Szabo starting paragraphs with "Right, ...": that's a definite tic in Nakamoto's postings.)

Mikeb85 13y ago
> Satoshi Nakamoto uses double spaces after sentence-final; so does Nick Szabo. So does every single person of my generation who went through the Canadian school system (and no doubt others world-wide). Double spaces after sentences is 100% standard here. In fact, it was only recently I found out some people use a single space...
atondwal 13y ago
> "Interestingly" is a distinctive word, especially at sentence-initial. Both Nakamoto and Szabo use this. > (I'd be interested to see if anyone can find Szabo starting paragraphs with "Right, ...": that's a definite tic in Nakamoto's postings.) AFAIK these are both extremely common among [CS, Math, Physics] professors.