Comments on: Will the Real Satoshi Nakamoto Please Stand Up?

By: Gwern

Gwern — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:54:55 +0000

Handle, as I say in my Reddit comment, Szabo was, is, and will be one of the major Satoshi suspects simply because he was working on such similar topics, but the specific claims and research this dude is claiming are hopelessly wrong and do not increase our belief (whatever it was) that Szabo is Satoshi!

(Szabo isn’t a perfect candidate, of course. For example, I have been unable to find any C++ code written by him, which is a major prerequisite for being Satoshi. Just a little JS library.)

By: Handle

Handle — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:37:13 +0000

I think the Szabo hypothesis has a lot of merit. His Bitgold work from before 2005 is very close to Bitcoin, and few other people were really working as intensely on the same ideas.

By: Gwern

Gwern — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:28:19 +0000

Bullshit research, unfortunately. Copying over my now-hidden comment on TC:

> (only 0.1% of cryptography researchers could have produced this writing style — again, please, attack my methods on this) Says the guy who refuses to approve any comments on his blog with said criticism, or to meaningfully reply to any of the many well thought out criticisms on either HN or Reddit — dude, there's way more than 'leave Satoshi alone'. And I see he repeats some of his erroneous claims here, like the post-dating claim. Sigh...