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Is GWU Econ Prof. Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto?
Pseudonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto (whether that name represents one person or several) is believed to hold many millions of dollars in Bitcoin. Various attempts have been made to pin down Nakamoto's identity; the IB Times reports today that a (sadly anonymous) analysis points to George Washington University economics professor Nick Szabo, based on textual analysis and some other clues, such as Szabo's expertise in digital currency and his role as founder of GoldCoin. Szabo's blog Unenumerated is fascinating reading, whether or not this analysis is right.
..I am Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Nick Szabo is an anagram for A Biz Con
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I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
I have never once seen Satoshi Nakamoto dumpster diving outside a liposuction clinic.
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Satoshi helped found a completely un-innovative Litecoin derivative? I think that just about invalidates the analysis.
Satoshi Nakamoto is people!
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
We'll find out who he is when the original bitcoins are used. In the meantime, an anonymous blogger making speculative claims is not really news.
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. -Benjamin Franklin
If his name is known, then the FBI can cast a spell of COINTELPRO on his ass.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Is GWU Econ Prof. Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto?
Is GWU Econ Prof. Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto what? Apart from of mixed Hungarian and Japanese descent...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
When I hear about bitcoin's founder I am reminded of a homeless man I met in Palo Alto in the 1990's, in his 30's or 40's. He used to stand on the street chanting weird things and you would think he was insane, which he was. But if you talked to him, you'd realize he was pretty smart too. Anyhow, he told me about how he was getting his P.H.D. in Economics from Yale, but they rejected his thesis which was basically about private currency, as his professors equated it with counterfeiting and he subsequently went semi-mad according to him. This guy was a smart homeless guy but also a little crazy, his shopping cart had various gadgets powered by car battery, and I think there was a reason he was hanging out in the valley at that time. Find him, and you will find the creator of bitcoin.
So what.
According to Betteridge's Law, any news headline in the form of a question can be answered "No." Therefore we know it's not Nick Szabo.
Is there an rss link for that blog? I can't find it.
SURELY NOT!!!!!
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Everyone knows that Satoshi Nakamoto is The Stig.
I mean, The Winklevoss twins (of Facebook fame - yes those two) have claimed repeatedly that they own around 10% of all bitcoins out there spread through various safe storage locations.
If that's true (that would be around 2M bitcoins), that would put their holdings at over $2B.
We were wondering if he was Satoshi...2-3 years ago on the bitcoin forums. It's so comical how the rest of the web is playing catch up and pretending like these are new discoveries.
What is the motivation to hide behind a pseudonym as the creator of Bitcoin?
Sick boanz?
Zab no sick,
I nok scabz --
Za sock bin...
O, ick, nasz B!
K, I can sobz?
No, sick baz.
Zis no cab, K?
Ban sick-O'z.
K. C siz o bank?
OK, C. Biznas!
NO? Then how about we stick to news (for nerds) and not unfounded speculations from random blogs.
Let's not forget: Zik's Bacon
It's Kevin Spacey.
nothing says creepy like an adult pokemon fan
Ya, i creep myself out at times.
Be seeing you...
Roddy McDowall was AWSOME wearing that ape suit and playing Satoshi Nakamoto. How can anyone not agree?
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Yeah, I had my comment moderated as funny, which it is, but I'm serious about this guy if I had to pick someone I've met in my life it would be him (and I know a guy who has the Nobel Prize in Economics). But there are a few street people who are maybe so smart they get hay-wired.
This guy used to stand in alley with his eyes rolled up, between the bookstore and the music shop chanting "Help me gus! Save us gus!" I used to think he was saying God, not gus, but I asked him about it. I actually didn't know he could talk at all, but I worked at the music store, and he came in, and I thought I was going to have to call the police. Then he talked normally and spoke well, and I asked him about what he was doing. He clarified his chant, sort of, at least as far as what he was saying. He wanted to buy something for his recording studio, which was a tape 4 track and other stuff that was in his shopping cart, which he showed me. I was in high school then, and I dealt with him a few times, and I think he told me about his education because I complimented his intelligence (I don't normally do that, but relative to homeless people I knew, he was smart, just crazy) and maybe I just probed people better then. Anyhow, he told me about his thesis, which me talking about is almost like the tenacious D song where it's a tribute to the greatest song in the world. I didn't really have the capacity to understand it all then (I was in H.S. talking to a mad partial PHD) so I can't spit it out verbatim, but he had me convinced at the conclusion, even perhaps the state of his condition, by virtue of his passion and reasoning despite the general premise behind his hypothesis seemed flawed to me then, and it had driven him in to exile, and he chose to go to Palo Alto for whatever reason. I don't know if he knows how to program. Maybe he learned on the mean streets.
I know a guy who has the Nobel Prize in Economics
No you don't.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
I think you mean "another guy who also wasn't named Satoshi Nakamoto".
Although thinking of it, maybe his name really is Satoshi Nakamoto, and he made up that pseudonym story so that no one would guess he was the one who created Bitcoin; after all, who would use his own name as pseudonym?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Did anyone think to ask this guy directly before posting an article about him?
Spent All My Mod Points
I thought your story was going to go like this...
When I hear about bitcoin's founder I am reminded of a homeless man I met in Palo Alto in the 1990's, in his 30's or 40's. He used to stand on the street chanting weird things and you would think he was insane, which he was. But if you talked to him, you'd realize he was pretty smart too. Anyhow, he told me about how he was getting his P.H.D. in Economics from Yale, but they rejected his thesis which was basically about private currency, as his professors equated it with counterfeiting and he subsequently went semi-mad according to him. This guy was a smart homeless guy but also a little crazy, his shopping cart had various gadgets powered by car battery, and I think there was a reason he was hanging out in the valley at that time. Find him, and you will find the creator of bitcoin. Anyway, after he was all done telling me this, he looked intently at me and said, "By the way, can you spare some change? I need about tree fiddy."
Actually, Stig Hackvan died a week or two ago. Wasn't him.
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If the person you want to write about is the real Satoshi, he'd obviously say no.
If the person you want to write about the real Satoshi, he'd probably also say no. He might also ask you not to hassle him.
Bill Stewart
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Well, thank you NSA for creating the weapon that will kill PayPal and credit cards.
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Yea, genius and madness tend to go hand in hand - same traits cause both. There's been research into it, and if i recall right they pretty much concluded it's almost like flip sides of a coin.
History shows us as well, many geniuses of our past were... A bit out of their mind, but because of that they are also geniuses -> they think about things no one else would, they see those things differently and approach differently.
I believe part of the reason genius minds go a bit mad, or some genius persons seems very obnoxious is because everyone else seems to stupid, and it gets so insanely frustfrating when people cannot understand what seems basic logic from the POV of the genius, and you have to deal with it every single F* day, but from the POV of the genius there is just so many morons.
Bottomline is - if they are a bit out of their mind, or seemingly completely bonkers - we should be glad and thankfull, because that is the person who is likely to come to a solution to a very hard problem concerning few or many, pushing our civilization forwards.
Also because people fight against them calling "bullshit" at their "crazy inventions", they have to proof beyond shadow of doubt this is better, while it sucks for the genius it is better for civilization as a whole
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