We expect “Satoshi Nakamoto” is Japenese.
When you take out “I am Nash” you are left with
“sato” and “koto”
Japenese is the key because if you didn’t know the language then you could never match the words to verify the code cracking.
koto = japan’s national instrument
sato = the most popular japenese name
Bitcoin is the “instrument” for the “common man”.
Yeah, pretty far into bong hits territory there. But on the meta level I think the article makes a case that Bitcoin might not exist without the mathematical innovations of Nash.
This is crazy. Both John Nash and Nick Szabo are regular public persons whose non-identicalness has been thoroughly established. You can just enter their names in Google image search and see that they are different persons.
Second, I think it's already been established beyond reasonable doubt that Nick Szabo is Satoshi. There's not really any evidence against that except for his denial, and there's been plenty of evidence for it.
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[ 6.8 ms ] story [ 39.3 ms ] threadAny sequence of consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel is quite likely to be a Japanese word.
Second, I think it's already been established beyond reasonable doubt that Nick Szabo is Satoshi. There's not really any evidence against that except for his denial, and there's been plenty of evidence for it.