Do you know famous inventions whose authors have always remained completely anonymous and never reveled their identities ? Other than Bitcoin.
PS: In any field, not only technology, and any time in history.
Ask HN: Famous anonymous inventions other than Bitcoin?
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#2The wheel is an uncredited invention that almost all of humanity uses multiple times a day.
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#3the bible
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#4Writing, and in particular the Arabic numerals.
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#5The wheel is an uncredited invention that almost all of humanity uses multiple times a day.
It might be more interesting to limit answers to historical times.
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#6TrueCrypt.
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#7The DotA "creator" / last maintainer, IceFrog keeps his identity hidden. It did leak because of a Blizzard lawsuit, but people respect it and don't talk about it.
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#8Inside the Bitcoin ecosystem Mimblewimble is another important invention with a funny history.
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#10Writing, and in particular the Arabic numerals.
Unknown (as in, probably known in the past but was lost to history) != anonymous. Otherwise this thread will be filled with ancient/prehistoric inventions.