Satoshi Nakamoto is (probably) Nick Szabo
by royalarse13
Identifying Satoshi Nakamoto through textual analysis. Brilliant piece of investigation that suggest the author of Bitcoin whitepaper is very likely a well-published and respected CS prof named Nick Szabo.
I recently became interested in identifying the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. I started from the Bitcoin whitepaper [0] published in late 2008, and proceeded to run reverse textual analysis –essentially, searching the internet for highly unusual turns of phrase and vocabulary patterns (in particular places which you would expect a cryptography researcher to contribute to), then evaluating the fitness of each match found by running textual similarity metrics on several pages of their writing.
Which led me rather directly to several articles from Nick Szabo’s blog.
For those who wouldn’t know Nick Szabo and his documented links to Bitcoin: prior to the apparition of Bitcoin, Nick had been developing for several years (since 1998 [1]) the enabling mechanism for a decentralized digital currency, eventually converging on a system he called “bit gold” [3], which is the direct precursor to the Bitcoin architecture.
According to what seems to be…
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