Why has no one spoken with Nick Szabo?
They have. He's denied it.
Do you remember where you saw this?
Nick Szabo is Satoshi Nakamoto, the Inventor of Bitcoin
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#22"The clincher, for me, is that he wrote an article about the emergence of money that is compatible with my theory of human evolution."
Apparently author really wants Nick Szabo to be creator of bitcoin because they have similar views.
Previous four reasons given are way better compared to reasoning used in Newsweek article, however it is still nowhere near enough to assert that Nick Szabo is Satoshi.
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#23Yeah, we've thought for a long time he's probably involved. Along with other people (he almost definitely didn't write the code); Satoshi likely isn't just one person. That being said, what's the point of articles like this? We will never know unless Satoshi chooses to reveal himself/themselves and proves it with a pgp key. Which won't happen. Otherwise, it's just idle speculation.
The point is that Newsweek is very likely wrong.
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#25Both the title and URL of this HN post need to change.
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#26I think, more likely, it's Jed McCaleb. Also, I think a person who so carefully is trying to conserve his identity and was capable enough to come up with Bitcoin, will possibly hide his linguistic tracks as well.
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#27What? The guy outs satoshi(supposedly) and then puts a plug in for his "Shangri-La Diet" as a great advance in health?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have. He's denied it.
Can you give a link to where he's denied it? I haven't seen anything.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/all/1
Wired, weirdly, didn't quote his denial. They just said he denied it. On his blog, he also suggested that Finney or Dai might be Satoshi.
I'm inclined to believe it's him. He's been writing about this topic passionately for years. Weirdly, though, he was still writing about "Bit Gold" and Hal Finney's attempt at an implementation in December 2008, after Satoshi posted the BitCoin whitepaper which is very, very strikingly exactly an implementation of his concept (with some major improvements, obviously), which he made no mention of.
He also seems so prolific on his blog - writing post after post of greatly historically informed academic research - that I just don't know how he would find the time to implement BitGold.
I also have not seen any of his other programming projects, and so I don't know whether or not he's a good enough C++ engineer to implement it successfully.
But of all the people so far he seems to be the best candidate.
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#30The blogger who suggested this hypothesis a few months ago has a new post, with a stylometric analysis of the writings of some cryptocurrency people: http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/occams-razor-w... (a smaller score mean a closer match. Not sure what scores stand for precisely). Word length distribution Diff Nick Szabo / Bitcoin: 0.160 Diff Wei Dai / Bitcoin: 0.241 Diff David Chaum / Bitcoin: 0.257 Dif…
Statistical analyses rely on assumptions of sample independence and random selection that are pretty hard to justify with something like this. Are all the articles on the same topic? Are they written for the same audience? Are the works independent or is there copying and/or inspiration being shared?