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Re:Bit gold (2005) by bachback on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @06:10PM (#6964649)
interesting. at what odds would you bet? I think the distribution is fairly flat, because it could be a random, unknown guy who just happen to work on it his whole life. it seems to me that satoshi had to be non-academic.
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Re:Bit gold (2005) by wintersFright on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @07:26PM (#6964812)
it seems unlikely that it was an unknown guy who threw out a workable solution on his first attempt. If it wasn't his first attempt, he must have left an internet footprint somewhere with prior ramblings.

Much like DPR and silkroad.

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Re:Bit gold (2005) by bushido on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @08:21PM (#6964925)
This looks interesting:

https://web.archive.org/web/20061202010422/http://www.weidai...

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Re:Bit gold (2005) by bachback on Thursday December 26, 2013 @09:20AM (#6966307)
not so sure. the main ingredient is the torrent principle. incidentally that was also written by one guy in a basement. the risk of floating a half-baked proposals is too high, so it seems likely satoshi did it all in one go, or had very private discussions. question really if anonymity was on his mind from the beginning or not.
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