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Who Is The Real Satoshi Nakamoto? One Researcher May Have Found The Answer
Posted Dec 5, 2013 by John Biggs (@johnbiggs)
the Internet did something strange last week. When a researcher named Skye Grey posted a detailed analysis of textual biases in the writing of shadowing Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and a researcher named Nick Szabo at George Washington University, the interest was muted but optimistic. Did Grey, who declined to go into much personal detail, crack the code? Or was it, as always, just a matter of lucky conjecture................
One known scumbag pushing the bitcoin is CIA Rothschild connected Agora Inc. therdailyreckoning.com con artist named Doug Casey and encouraging Argentinians to use it fr all their money laundering needs.......
The founder of Agora Incx that a Mr.Bill Bonner now takes responsibility for is James Dale Davidson who co-authored a number of pro offshore money laundering books with deceased UK Lord or Lard William Rees-Mogg.James Dale Davidson is also founder of Steve Forbes,et.al. connected National Taxpayers Union which has for years been used to operate and pump and dump worthless penny stock shares that the main headquarters of the U.S.SEC located a short distance a way has for some strange reason never noticed.....
Note also the silence of CIA and NSA Air Force Generals Michael Hayden and Keith Alexander who allow myriad digital financial frauds to go on while pretending not to notice.NO COINCIDENCE THE Air Force is getting U.S.government funds to promote bitcoin.Barack Obama should be in jail along with the elite money launderers and war criminals surrounding him.........The U.S.government and politicians encouraging Bitcoin campaign contributions are criminally negligent in in either encouraging or funding anything related to the anonymous and semi-anonymous scum who run Bitcoin and promote its illegal pump and dump manipulations.
BITCOIN WILL NEVER WORK? TELL THAT TO THE US AIR FORCE
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Szabo ... and the best world economic news and reports is "The Daily Reckoning"
Nick Szabo hasn't shared anything on this page with you. ... In his circles. 5 people. Tom Szabo's profile photo · Tom Szabo · Jo-Anne Wallace's profile photo.
Doug Casey, chairman of Casey Research. .... including The Financial Times and The Daily Reckoning, as well as a regular ... Paul Krugman The Daily Reckoning ...... Introducing Tom Szabo's Peerless system for picking gold mining stocks.
Doug Casey on Bitcoin and Currencies | Casey Research
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Bitcoin Is the New Napster… and That's a Good Thing | Casey ...
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Bitcoin: As Good as Gold? - International Man
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Doug Casey on Benign Anarchy - The Daily Reckoning
dailyreckoning.com/doug-casey-on-benign-anarchy/
The Daily Reckoning | LinkedIn
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BITCOIN WILL NEVER WORK? TELL THAT TO THE US AIR FORCE
www.theburningplatform.com/.../whats-that-bitcoin-will-never-work-tell...
Szabo ... and the best world economic news and reports is "The Daily Reckoning"
Nick Szabo hasn't shared anything on this page with you. ... In his circles. 5 people. Tom Szabo's profile photo · Tom Szabo · Jo-Anne Wallace's profile photo.
Doug Casey, chairman of Casey Research. .... including The Financial Times and The Daily Reckoning, as well as a regular ... Paul Krugman The Daily Reckoning ...... Introducing Tom Szabo's Peerless system for picking gold mining stocks.
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Pal Pal Zionist David Marcus Endorses Bitcoin for money laundering in Argentina,China and around the world.He knows full well that bitcoin can lose as much overnight as he estimates devaluation of Argentina currency in one year !He should be held legally liable as an owner of bitcoin 'shares' in telling the public it is a
' a store of value, a distributed ledger' when it behabes more like a penny stock !:
PayPal president David Marcus: Bitcoin is good, NFC is bad
The leader of the payments business looks to the future and says Bitcoin is a good idea -- but not yet actually a currency. Tap-to-pay ...
PARIS -- Online payments will look completely different in the next
decade, and Bitcoin has a better chance at revolutionizing commerce than
the NFC tap-to-pay technology, PayPal President David Marcus predicted
Tuesday.
"I really like Bitcoin. I own bitcoins," Marcus said at the LeWeb
conference here. However, he believes people today don't correctly
understand what bitcoins actually are, and he's not yet ready to let
people link their bitcoin wallets with their PayPal accounts.
He explained:
The bitcoin crash of 2013: Don't you feel silly now?
People are confused. They think because it’s called cryptocurrency [that] it’s a currency. I don’t think it is a currency. It’s a store of value, a distributed ledger. It’s a great place to put assets, especially in places like Argentina with 40 percent inflation, where $1 today is worth 60 cents in a year, and a government’s currency does not hold value. It’s also a good investment vehicle if you have an appetite for risk. But it won’t be a currency until volatility slows down. Whenever the regulatory framework is clearer, and the volatility comes down, then we’ll consider it......
The bitcoin crash of 2013: Don't you feel silly now?
People who thought that bitcoins could serve as either an investment vehicle or an alternative world currency got their heads handed to them ...
People who thought that bitcoins could serve as either an investment
vehicle or an alternative world currency got their heads handed to them
on Thursday and Friday. That's when the price of the attention-grabbing
crypto-currency got crushed, falling from a quoted $1,200 per "coin" to
less than $600. At this writing, it's quoted on the Mt. Gox exchange at about $830.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-bitcoin-crash-20131207,0,7011276.story#ixzz2pGwHNjlc
The whipsaw validates what we wrote about bitcoins just two weeks ago:
they're useful as a medium of transfer, but even then you have to be
nimble. If you were a Greek or a Spaniard using bitcoins to move money
out of your home country without having to worry too much about your
local foreign exchange or banking rules, and you figured on Thursday
that you could get around to transferring your asset back out of
bitcoins and into dollars or sterling--whoops! You lost half your stake
in a matter of hours. The minimum time required to complete a trade in
bitcoins is ten minutes; that's about how long you should hold them to
keep exchange rate risk low................
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-bitcoin-crash-20131207,0,7011276.story#ixzz2pGwHNjlc
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he biggest stories of 2013: Console wars, Bitcoin's boom - Engadget
www.engadget.com/2013/12/30/2013-year-in-review/
The Daily Dot - What do the latest NSA leaks mean for Bitcoin?
www.dailydot.com/opinion/bitcoin-nsa-exploit-intelligence-community/
Is the National Security Agency behind Bitcoin? | Real Currencies
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Has the NSA already broken bitcoin? - Bitcoin Forum
bitcointalk.org › Bitcoin › Bitcoin Discussion
Sep 5, 2013 - 25 posts - 11 authors
Bitcoin relies on SHA-256, originally created by the NSA. Perhaps there is a weakness that an organization with the resources of the NSA is ...Is Bitcoin a Government Conspiracy? | Motherboard
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Article: Connecting the Dots between Microsoft Backdoors, NSA ...
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Bitcoin won't hide you from the NSA's prying eyes (Wired UK)
www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/11/bitcoin-prism
Bitcoins - Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?
thehackernews.com/.../NSA-backdoor-bitcoin-encryption-sha256-snowd...
Sep 13, 2013 - Bitcoins - Secured or Backdoored by NSA ? Is it hard to believe that could the intelligence community have a secret exploit for Bitcoin?The Week In Bitcoin - May 30 through June 5 2011 - Bitcoin Forum
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Nick Szabo - Google+
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Nick Szabo hasn't shared anything on this page with you. ... In his circles. 5 people. Tom Szabo's profile photo · Tom Szabo · Jo-Anne Wallace's profile photo.10/08/13 - SilverStrategies.com Feature Story
www.silverstrategies.com/story.aspx?local=1&id=42984
Thomas Szabo: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek
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http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/05/who-is-the-real-satoshi-nakamoto-one-researcher-may-have-found-the-answer/
Who Is The Real Satoshi Nakamoto? One Researcher May Have Found The Answer
Posted Dec 5, 2013 by John Biggs (@johnbiggs)
the Internet did something strange last week. When a researcher named Skye Grey posted a detailed analysis of textual biases in the writing of shadowing Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and a researcher named Nick Szabo at George Washington University, the interest was muted but optimistic. Did Grey, who declined to go into much personal detail, crack the code? Or was it, as always, just a matter of lucky conjecture.
Whether or not Satoshi is a real person, group of people, or some sort of government entity is important. It gives closure to the currency’s origin story and it can confirm or deny a whole host of rumors and innuendo bandied about in the fringier corners of the Bitcoin market. If BTC were a way to get us out from under the government, why is Satoshi so secretive? While Grey’s analysis is still being proved or disproved, the process, in the end, is fascinating.
Given that Grey’s analysis was, on the surface, solid, I reached out for a short interview.
TC: Tell me about yourself. Why did you do this study?SG: Originally it was simple curiosity that drew me to the question. I like mysteries. Then I decided to publish what I found for two reasons:
- so that other people could attack my method and findings, or validate them. I want certitudes, and keeping for me what I had found would not get me anywhere.
- so as to address people’s concerns that a “bad guy” might have created Bitcoin. I think this question is what could harm the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin in the near future.
- so that other people could attack my method and findings, or validate them. I want certitudes, and keeping for me what I had found would not get me anywhere.
- so as to address people’s concerns that a “bad guy” might have created Bitcoin. I think this question is what could harm the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin in the near future.
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
- 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
Currently I am in contact with two different persons who will be running their own independent textual analysis to confirm my own.
TC: Does it matter? What would it change if it did, in your opinion?SG: I think it’s very important to identify Satoshi at this point in Bitcoin’s history. The “agenda” behind Bitcoin, if there is any, cannot stay in the shadow if Bitcoin is to become a mainstream alternative currency, a challenge to the world’s monetary status quo. There has been speculation that Bitcoin may have been created by a government agency (the main employers of cryptographers of mathematicians) in an attempt to make financial transactions easier to mine for interesting data patterns: we need to clear that up before we start relying heavily on Bitcoin in our lives.
I think it would be great news for Bitcoin if Nick Szabo turned out to be the mastermind behind it. Nick appears to be a remarkably brilliant, disinterested polymath academic. Who would you rather have at the origins of Bitcoin, a visionary professor and collaborators, or spooks?
TC: How has your digging gone over in the BTC community? It seems like an unpopular topic at best.SG: It has not been received well, many people are telling me to “leave Satoshi alone”. But when one starts having a huge impact on the world, one loses his right to anonymity. Satoshi currently holds about BTC 1M, valued at USD $1B, and has the power to potentially crash the Bitcoin markets. We need to know who the people who have power over us are, and what their intentions are. This is why we require background checks on our elected leaders. In the same way we need a “background check” on the Bitcoin system before we start handing it our monetary exchanges. Next would be to know what has become of Satoshi’s BTC stash.
The anonymous figure of Satoshi probably played a role in the early adoption of Bitcoin (“we are all Satoshi”), because the mystery created a powerful story drawing in early enthusiasts. Now this anonymity has become an obstacle to mainstream adoption, because there is legitimate concern over the origins and purpose of Bitcoin.
TC: How easy is it to assess identity via written “tics?”SG: It’s rather easy. We all use language in our own particular way: the probability distribution over rare expressions, sentence structures, and stop words in our writing constitute a “signature” of sorts. It is not nearly as uniquely discriminative as a fingerprint, or DNA, but it is discriminative enough to distinguish one person out of a few hundreds or even thousands. For some people who tend to have more particular tics, like authors or academics, it constitutes a solid identification process.
In the case of Satoshi, I identified a number of unusual content-neutral expressions used both in Satoshi’s whitepaper and in Nick’s papers. For 4 of these expressions, I was able to estimate (using Google Scholar) the proportion of researchers in the cryptography community susceptible of using these expressions in a paper. These proportions are respectively 15%, 10%, 15%, and 50%. Assuming the use of each one is independent of the use of the others, the joint probability of finding a researcher using all of them in their writing is on the order of 0.1%. So this particular combination of writing tics could identify one cryptographer out of 1000. Even if these approximations are off by a large factor, the joint probability will stay quite small.
TC: Are there any close runners-up for the Satoshi identity?SG: Nick is by far the number one candidate. I have nothing else significant enough to be worth mentioning.
TC: How many bitcoin do you have?SG: Let’s say I have between 1 and 10 BTC. I am not heavily invested in Bitcoin, but I am definitely bullish on its adoption prospects.
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