BitCoinin perustaja/keksijä saatu selville
Merkillistä on, että mies on pakoillut tämän tiedon julkiseksi tulemista ja pakoilee edelleen. Voidaan jopa väittää, että hän todistaa toimiensa olevan hämäriä tai laittomia tuolla käytöksellänsä. Pyramidihuijaus ollut alkuperäisenä tavoitteena?
"TC: How sure are you it’s Nick Szabo?
SG: I am not certain it’s Nick Szabo, but I have quite a few independent pieces of evidence pointing in his direction, each one interesting in itself:
- text analysis (only 0.1% of cryptography researchers could have produced this writing style –again, please, attack my methods on this)
- fact that Nick was searching for technical collaborators on the bit gold project (a very similar cryptocurrency) a few months before the announcement of Bitcoin (and then the bit gold project became perfectly silent)
- lack of citation of Nick’s work by Satoshi, whereas he cited other, less related cryptocurrencies
- lack of reaction on Nick’s part about Bitcoin, whereas a decentralized currency like Bitcoin had been a major project of his for 10 years
- fact that Nick deliberately post-dated his bit gold articles to look posterior to Bitcoin, shortly after the announcement of Bitcoin"