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April 23, 2018, 07:53:27 PM |
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The first theory - Nick Szabo
At the end of 2013, a researcher named Skye Gray conducted a stylometric analysis of how to construct the statements published so far on online forums by the legendary Satoshi and compared it with the style used by the cryptographer, scientist and lecturer Nick Szabo mentioned at the beginning of the book. His style not only corresponded to the profile of the text, but as we remember, in 1998, Nick published a scientific concept describing the idea of a decentralized currency based on cryptography called bit gold, which is considered the precursor of bitcoin. This project has never been implemented. Interestingly, Satoshi had to know about this work, and yet in his document being the basis for the creation of Bitcoin, he did not quote and did not refer in any way to the work of Szabo. After the publication of Nathaniel Popper in the New York Times indicating that any circumstantial evidence of Nakamoto leads to the Hungarian Nick Szabo, he thanked for recognition and in a short e-mail strongly denied these theories, suggesting that he was slowly used to the fact that in terms of identity Nakamoto is always the first suspect.
The second theory - Dorian Nakamoto
In March 2014, in an article published in Newsweek, journalist Leah McGrath Goodman pointed out that the legendary Satoshi Nakamoto may be a physicist living in California, an American of Japanese descent bearing the same name - Dorian Nakamoto. This would indicate a lot of objective facts, such as the fact that Dorian worked as an engineer in the implementation of secret military projects, did not hide with libertarian views, and asked directly if he was Satoshi said that "more does not deal with this and the project was passed to other people "5. This caused a huge wave of interest in his person and pilgrimage of journalists to Dorian's house, completely ruining his private life.
In the next interview, an advanced age Dorian said he had never heard of bitcoin, and the question asked to him by the journalist understood, thinking he was being asked about one of his secret projects for Citibank, who had a similar codename. Interestingly, on the same day the mysterious organization Nakamoto's P2P Foundation published the first in five years entry on the online forum with the text "I'm not Dorian Nakamoto." The spice is added by the fact that the foundation's account from which this message was sent was widely taken over by hackers, which could question the authenticity of the note left on the online discussion forum. The fact is that another candidate from the list of suspects of being a real Satosh - Hal Finney - lived for a decade several streets farther than Dorian Nakamoto, in a little more than thirty-six thousand people in the California town on the outskirts of Los Angeles - Temple City.
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