Was Bitcoin Created by This International Drug Dealer?
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#2Who cares
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#3Even though there's no good answers here, I still enjoyed reading this. It's as much about the process and the hype as it is about trying to answer yes/no. In the end he decides it's a maybe, and that's probably good enough for now. It's a fun little piece.
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#5The speculation that Paul Le Roux (the developer of TrueCrypt's precursor E4M, and the suspected coauthor of TrueCrypt) is Satoshi Nakamoto has a long history, but ultimately many found that it was still unpersuasive.
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#6Has anyone analyzed the coding style of E4M and compared it to the original Bitcoin release?
Coding style may not be as unique to an individual as prose, but it would be an interesting smoke test.
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#7Has anyone analyzed the coding style of E4M and compared it to the original Bitcoin release? Coding style may not be as unique to an individual as prose, but it would be an interesting smoke test.
They mention it in the article and couldn't come to any conclusions.
I don't see anything that stands out as saying these couldn’t have been written by the same person (especially separated by a decade),” he wrote. “Nor do I see any similarity that wouldn’t also be true for many other authors and codebases. At a minimum, however, if they were written by the same person that person’s styles changed a lot (either due to time or intentionally hiding them).Re: Was Bitcoin Created by This International Drug Dealer?
#8Has anyone analyzed the coding style of E4M and compared it to the original Bitcoin release? Coding style may not be as unique to an individual as prose, but it would be an interesting smoke test.
They mention it in the article and couldn't come to any conclusions. I don't see anything that stands out as saying these couldn’t have been written by the same person (especially separated by a decade),” he wrote. “Nor do I see any similarity that wouldn’t also be true for many other authors and codebases. At a minimum, however, if they were written by the same person that person’s styles changed a lot (either due t…
Thanks. I hadn't gotten that far in the article yet. :)
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#9No, it's not Paul, but wouldn't it be ironic if it turned out that the designer and architect of the original Bitcoin protocol was (partially) responsible for putting him behind bars?
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#10Has anyone analyzed the coding style of E4M and compared it to the original Bitcoin release? Coding style may not be as unique to an individual as prose, but it would be an interesting smoke test.
I have. I compared contemporary Truecrypt and Bitcoin sources. They don't show any obvious sign of being written by the same person. If anything I'd say Paul Le Roux is a better programmer than Satoshi.