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Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by keymone on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:49AM (#15139219)
interesting points, thanks. also thanks for your contributions to the project.

i wonder if stylometry could be (was?) applied to C++ code to have better evidence about authorship?

Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by keymone on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:01PM (#15150284)
thanks, sounds promising. might toy around with that over weekend.
Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by bhouston on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:05AM (#15139689)
Only if other open code exists?

Most code produced is not open source.

But given he open sourced Bitcoin, he may have open sourced something else.

Code style does change over time, I know mine has. But I wonder if there are invariants as well. That would be a fascinating research project.

Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by keymone on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:39AM (#15139838)
stylometry of just bitcoin source code could at least establish if there was one author or multiple.