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Re:Did Bitcoin leak from an American spy lab? by teleforce on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @06:49AM (#37830496)
It's an open secret that based on many crypto experts and the ones who knew Hal Finney personally that he's the original author or one of the original authors of Bitcoin [1],[2],[3]. Apparently coding has certain style and signature, and everyone coding style is different especially C program where freestyle is the norm, in which the original Bitcoin codes was originally written in C. It's also claimed by some experts that the original coding for Bitcoin code released by the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto has Hal's "fingerprint" all over it [3],[4].

[1] Hal Finney and Bitcoin's Earliest Days:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-MBB-26228

[2] Remembering Hal Finney on the 14th Anniversary of the First Bitcoin Transaction:

https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/01/12/remem...

[3] The Developer Who Discovered Bitcoin's Original Codebase, Jim Blasko:

https://hackernoon.com/the-developer-who-discovered-bitcoins...

[4] Uncovering Satoshi Nakamoto? A Look into the Techniques Used to Search for Bitcoins Creator:

https://blockchainindustrygroup.org/uncovering-satoshi-nakam...

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Re:Did Bitcoin leak from an American spy lab? by mortallywounded on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @07:26AM (#37830773)
Dave Kleimen is an interesting candidate for Satoshi, but I can't get by the way he died and yet didn't touch the vault of coins. It's hard to imagine... I don't think he had the technical chops for it either.

Len Sassaman is still the top candidate in my book.

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Re:Did Bitcoin leak from an American spy lab? by aleph_minus_one on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:16AM (#37832421)
> Len Sassaman is still the top candidate in my book.

I agree with this judgement.

Another hot candidate is in my opinion Nick Szabo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo).

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Re:Did Bitcoin leak from an American spy lab? by mortallywounded on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:41AM (#37833553)
Adam Back is distant third after Len and Nick... I'd wager Satoshi is/was one of them!
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Re:Did Bitcoin leak from an American spy lab? by mike_hearn on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @07:46AM (#37830898)
This is nonsense. The original Bitcoin code was written in C++, not C which Hal always preferred to use, and Satoshi's style was very different to Hal's.
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