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That was Lance Detweiler, one of the main loons of the Cypherpunks list. Note that the article was posted in the EFF's "humor" section.
by blakdawg 13y ago
That was Lance Detweiler, one of the main loons of the Cypherpunks list. Note that the article was posted in the EFF's "humor" section.
- Aqueous 13y agoBut it is true that Nick Szabo admits elsewhere on the list that he finds it extremely difficult to maintain a pseudonymous identity, indicating that he has practice doing so. Not that this is any way conclusive, but it bolsters the case that Szabo is the kind of personality who would invent an identity like Satoshi.
- blakdawg 13y agoI don't know if there were [m]any participants in the early days of cypherpunks who didn't experiment with pseudonyms, anonymous remailers, anon.penet.fi, and the other early privacy tools/technologies. Nick's publicly disclosed areas of interest/expertise might make him a viable suspect to be Satoshi Nakamoto, but saying that someone used a nym while participating on the Cypherpunks list in the early 1990's is like saying someone smoked pot during the 1960's. It may be true, but it doesn't tell you much about them as a person, or the things they're likely to do 20 or 30 years later.