Video: Nick Szabo, Adam Back And David Chaum On The History Of Bitcoin

An interesting submission today on social sharing website Reddit.com. A user submitted the link to a blog belonging to Nick Szabo Thursday morning, which leads to a Twitter account that would appear to belong to the mysterious figure many in the community have speculated to be the Satoshi Nakamoto. Despite the fact he's denied having involvement in the development of bitcoin, his previous works suggest he has tremendous interest in the subject, and forensic linguists have even suggested the writing style in the bitcoin whitepaper matches that of Szabo. And his tweet history on Twitter is....

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....

Szabo explained the history of philosophical and technical work by the Cypherpunks that led up to the invention of Bitcoin at the Bitcoin 2022 conference.

Below is a list of all the people who have been called Satoshi Nakamoto. Are you among them? Well, on a long enough timeline, you might one day be. Heck, you might even think you are Satoshi. 1 - Nick Szabo - Blogger Skye Grey linked Nick Szabo to the Bitcoin white paper. Szabo is a long-time decentralized currency philosopher and even published a paper entitled "bit gold" which many consider a precursor to Bitcoin. This has nothing to do with the recently launched BitGold. Szabo has denied being Satoshi Nakamoto. Nathaniel Popper wrote in the New York Times that "the most convincing....