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Re:I Am Not Satoshi by caf on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @07:27PM (#6805347)
Does that matter? If two people independently invent the same thing, they're both inventors with equal standing. The classic example being Leibniz and Newton with regards to calculus of infintesimals.
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Re:I Am Not Satoshi by ogreyonder on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @09:07AM (#6808063)
Apparently it matters to the good people of Marshall, Texas. According to them, Whitfield Diffie didn't invent public key encryption for exactly that reason.

Yeah, I'm more than a little bitter about the technologically illiterate being allowed to judge complex technology.

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