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Nothing really new here, just speculation that Nick Szabo is Satoshi. It mainly appears to be a submarine piece praising bitcoin.
by wsxcde 11y ago
Nothing really new here, just speculation that Nick Szabo is Satoshi. It mainly appears to be a submarine piece praising bitcoin.
- ikeboy 11y agoWhat's new is info on Szabo, including that he worked at Vaurum, his age, and where he went to college.
- myth_buster 11y agoAlso: “I’m not Satoshi, and I’m not a college professor. In fact, I never was a college professor.” It was widely held belief that he is/was professor at George Washington University.
- ikeboy 11y agoThat part wasn't new, it was denied by GMU; see http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/04/16/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-unmasked-again/ http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/04/16/bitcoin-creator-sa.... >Furthermore, George Washington University says that despite widespread reports that Mr. Szabo worked as a law professor at the school, it has no records of his ever working there in that capacity. The university did confirm, though, that he received a law degree from the school in 2006.
- ikeboy 11y agoWhoops, I meant GWU.
- arfliw 11y agoWhy would something like that need to be a a 'widely held belief' -- aren't faculty easily identifiable i.e. listed on their website, or confirmed via a phone call?
- thieving_magpie 11y agoIt's nothing like a submarine piece. It has original reporting, no clear endorsement of any company (not even Vaurum). This is original reporting, don't discount it just because it doesn't go so far as to make crazy certainties about the identify of Satoshi. Nobody writes a submarine piece and goes to bitcoin conferences.
- beaner 11y agoWhat is a submarine piece?
- wsxcde 11y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html