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mk  ·  3272 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin

It seems Wright was involved, but I doubt he was the primary coder or wrote the bulk of Satoshi's communications.

It makes more sense to me that Kleiman was the primary Satoshi as coder and communicator. The weird email using Satoshi's acct a few months ago reads more like Wright.

UPDATE: Motherboard has a nice article with evidence that the PGP keys were backdated.





OftenBen  ·  3272 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Has anyone done a linguistic analysis of known 'Satoshi' writing? Try and identify how many distinct authors there were?

Quatrarius  ·  3272 days ago  ·  link  ·  

according to me putting very little effort in, a couple wikipedia citations seem to think that

1: satoshi commonly used british english spellings and expressions

2: never really posted between 5 am and 11 am GMT. which apparently suggests that (if having normal sleep patterns) they live in GMT -5 or GMT -6

3: everybody has different theories as to number of authors and who