Report: Crypto Pioneer Nick Szabo Is Raising Funds for Bitcoin/Blockchain Startup
Nick Szabo, a cryptographer who worked on an early bitcoin prototype, played a key role in developing smart contracts and has been suspected of being Satoshi Nakamoto, is now raising money for a bitcoin/blockchain startup, according to Quartz. Szabo is trying to raise $3 million, according to unnamed sources and a pitch deck that Quartz reviewed. One source said Fenbushi Capital, a China-based venture capital firm that has invested in blockchain ventures, has already committed $1 million in seed capital for the startup. A Crypto Pioneer. Szabo worked on DigiCash, an electronic currency....
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Nick Szabo is a legal scholar and cryptographer, and although he has categorically denied it, some believe him to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. Nick is the author of bitgold, which was the most complete conceptualization of a decentralized currency prior to Bitcoin. In November of 2013 Nick Szabo went dark and made his last known public communication for a long time. Seven months passed, and during that time more accusations that he was Satoshi arose. Aston University's Centre for Forensic Linguistics claimed that a forensic analysis of Bitcoins' White Paper suggests that....
Nick Szabo, the author of bitgold, the most complete conceptualization of a decentralized currency prior to bitcoin, the person who coined the term smart contracts in 1993, and believed by many to be Satoshi himself, published a one line blog post today which simply contained a link to his twitter account. The last known public communication from Nick Szabo was in November 2013, almost seven months ago, leaving many to wonder whether he would ever post again. The seven months silence seems to have followed increasing attention on Nick Szabo after numerous suggestions that he might be....
Smart contracts and digital currency pioneer Nick Szabo has added his voice to the Blockchain scaling debate, stating that the Blockchain itself cannot handle card network transaction numbers. Szabo: Periphery Network ‘Needed’. In a blog post Thursday, Szabo eloquently described the needs of Bitcoin’s blockchain in order for it to retain its core unique selling point: censorship resistance; or what he calls “automated integrity.” “…Sacrificing performance in order to achieve the security necessary for independent, seamlessly global, and automated integrity, mean that the Bitcoin blockchain....