Watch geraldo rivera, as he finds out what's in Capone's safe!
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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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It's truly not even a mystery.
There is only one person on earth who had both the skills and experience to create bitcoin, and actually was working to create bitcoin in the months leading up to the white paper.
That person is Nick Szabo.
Oh please.
The evidence for Szabo is circumstantial at best. I’ll give you he has the skills and experience and was working on digital currency at the time.
But Szabo was just one of hundreds of people working on different ideas related to digital currency around the time Bitcoin was released.
And how many hundreds of people developed their own cryptocurrency after getting the idea from the Bitcoin whitepaper? Clearly he not the only “person on earth who had both the skills and experience”.
Not to mention Szabo has repeatedly denied being Satoshi.
If it isn't Nick Szabo, it is somebody who has spent years ensuring all clues point to nobody but Nick Szabo, up to and including placing a Satoshi nakamoto statue in a rural Polish town where Nick Szabo's grandfather was born.
Let's just look at this logically: if you had written the 30+ papers building the ideas that eventually became bitcoin, actually were building bitcoin and months away from releasing, and then had all your work stolen without credit nor citation, you wouldn't be the world's biggest supporter of bitcoin. You would be mad that somebody stole your work and then spent years framing you for its creation.
The first usage of the word bitcoin was even on Nick Szabo's own blog, under a comment by the user Eddie. This leads to two outcomes: Eddie is Satoshi, or Nick's work wasn't stolen, bit gold is bitcoin and Nick is Satoshi.
Are we doing this again?
Or it was likely not a single individual, but a government contractor. How else could a compartmentalized secret remain so for this long?
The government sucks at keeping secrets despite what the conspiracy nuts say.
That's great, then show me the design plan to construct an F35. I'll wait.
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A single individual is the most likely way to keep a secret compartmentalized.
Hal Finney, no?
The software engineer, cryptography expert, and cyberpunk who received the first ever Bitcoin transaction and had a neighbor named "Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto"?
Cypherpunk or cyberpunk?
I guess cypherpunk?
That's probably right. I dunno man, I don't work here.
It's overwhelmingly likely to be someone none of us have ever heard of. If nothing else because that's the base rate. Also because someone nerdy enough to care about this stuff before cryptocurrency existed couldn't possibly have a life.
the NSA or other intelligence org invented it and provides ongoing funding to collect an enormous library of SHA256 hashes to aid in reducing the decryption space of SHA256 so they can watch people watching porn.
That's... that's a Pornhub category right? "Watching people watching porn" has got to be a tab on that site. It's sounds too much like a kink to not be a kink.
The nsa wants to watch people who are watching the pornhub video of someone else watching porn. The third level there is more difficult to find
The NSA has many kinks. Watching people watch porn, precious bodily fluids/anti-flouride porn, that kind of thing. Good for them.
They don't know. and the documentary will be bigfoot level speculation.
That's the twist. It was actually ₿igfoot who invented ₿itcoin, don't you see?
Bigfoot was paid by the Illuminati!
Exactly what Big Foot wants you to think, all so they can sell more Foot. Wake up sheeple!!!
It wasn't me.
He's not the Messiah! He's a very naughty boy!
[citation needed]
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