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Re:The Federalist Papers: Author Identification Through K-Me... by shiado on Monday July 09, 2018 @12:23PM (#17491376)
It would definitely be hard to do. And my personal suspicion is that Satoshi is a group of individuals, making such an analysis almost impossible. However there is the possibility that there is some sort of "linguistic fingerprint" capable of uniquely identifying Satoshi, despite what I believe to be their efforts to create a highly specific and unique style of writing for the purposes of evading identification. The way the Unabomber used a certain phrase in the manifesto and a letter to a family member was what got him caught.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can%27t_have_your_cake_and...

Another interesting analysis would be to compare the structure of code between the early bitcoin code and code written by likely suspects. Perhaps variable naming convention will identify Satoshi.

https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin

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Re:The Federalist Papers: Author Identification Through K-Me... by clubm8 on Monday July 09, 2018 @01:37PM (#17491960)
>my personal suspicion is that Satoshi is a group of individuals, making such an analysis almost impossible

I agree. My bet is at least two: one theory heavy "ideas guy" and one more software engineering oriented programmer who did the heavy lifting on implementation.

And I have also noticed that these types of analysis are for single authored documents.

I suspect it will stay a secret for a long time... maybe we'll get some deathbed confessions in a few decades.

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