Re:Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin's Cre...
by mapmeld on Thursday April 09, 2026 @01:51AM
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It's strange. I'm sure that he talked to experts who would immediately say, yes many programming languages exist. But two cryptographers who wrote money systems both using C++ is not informative. Today maybe we could expect one to use Rust.
Re:Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin's Cre...
by mikkupikku on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:18AM
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> I'm sure that he talked to experts
A NYTimes journalist? I wouldn't bet on it. The experts might be smelly nerds, they'd cramp his style.
Re:Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin's Cre...
by bobanrocky on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:45AM
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Well .. you probably thought the same when John was unmasking Theranos
> And Mr. Back’s thesis project focused on C++ — the same programming language Satoshi used to code the first version of the Bitcoin software.
Amazing! I bet they both for loops too! I heard Bitcoin relies heavily on for loops.
Infuriatingly, to people who don't know much about programming, these pieces of 'evidence' might sound quite compelling, because it will all sound equally obscure to them.
I'm only a quarter of the way through this piece, but I'm finding it very hard to take seriously.