Is this the Adi Shamir? Interesting insight from one of the co-creators of RSA.
Yes - although he has mixed credibility with original bitcoin research.
Says who?
How Did Dread Pirate Roberts Acquire and Protect His Bitcoin Wealth? [pdf]
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Yes - although he has mixed credibility with original bitcoin research.
Says who?
He has put his name on two previous papers that use similar methods to link bitcoin transactions and identify entities or individuals
The first paper seemed to contain some very basic misunderstandings of how bitcoin works, such as apparently mistaking the private company Blockchain.info for the Bitcoin blockchain itself. There were also other issues claimed - I don't recall the details. Adi Shamir responded to most of these claims, though he never explained the bizarre confusion over the Blockchain itself, and I think you can find some of that discussion on Bitcointalk.org if you search.
The second paper attracted a lot of attention because it identified an address used to move a large amount of money by Satoshi Nakamoto and linked that address to the Silk Road, with the clear insinuation that Satoshi Nakamoto was intimately connected to the Silk Road. However, simply Googling the address in question showed that it belonged to Dustin Tramell, who confirmed that it was his. In reality, there was no link to Satoshi Nakamoto. Adi Shamir withdrew that claim, and attempted to downplay the issue by laying the blame for sensationalizing it on others.
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#23Is this the Adi Shamir? Interesting insight from one of the co-creators of RSA.
Yea a few of his very recent papers have been popping up here. interesting to see a multi billionaire still doing work like this.
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Margins large enough to (fit a morbidly obese elephant / not pose a safety hazard to small children / summon Fermat back from the dead)? Yep, it's LaTeX.
The standard LaTeX classes (page styles) are really meant for books and such where generous margins are a good thing. See the IEEE journal paper LaTeX template [1] for an example of space-constrained LaTeX typesetting. [1] http://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/support/files/IEEEtran...
Yeah, most people who use LaTeX heavily get around to memorizing the \addtolength credo (or an alternative) fairly quickly. But the "holy shit, MARGINS" test has a very low false-positive rate in my experience. If you see !!!MARGINS!!!, it's probably LaTeX.
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Margins large enough to (fit a morbidly obese elephant / not pose a safety hazard to small children / summon Fermat back from the dead)? Yep, it's LaTeX.
The standard LaTeX classes (page styles) are really meant for books and such where generous margins are a good thing. See the IEEE journal paper LaTeX template [1] for an example of space-constrained LaTeX typesetting. [1] http://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/support/files/IEEEtran...
REVTeX [1] is pretty good. It is what is used for APS journals. The twocolumn mode is particularly compact.