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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
Months after Bitcoin was launched, the blog post that Szabo’s wrote was suspiciously backdated to December 2008. Another interesting fact is how Satoshi never once referenced Szabo’s work in the white paper for Bitcoin despite the parallels between the two.An odd thing to note is the lack of interest from Szabo when in 2010 Bitcoin broke the one cent barrier and continued to rise well over $.20 per coin. Also during the time while Satoshi was working tentatively on the Bitcoin protocol, Szabo never once mentioned Bitcoin on his blog. It wasn’t until Satoshi at the end of 2010 stepped down did Szabo begin talking about cryptocurrency.Of course, you can’t forget that Nick never released Bit Gold even though he was actively seeking help from readers on his blog. All these facts put together propose the question “Is Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto?”Hal FinneyEveryone knows that Nick Szabo and Hal Finney have known each other since 1993. It is also known that they communicated and exchanged ideas several times. Hal received the first Bitcoin transaction from none other than Satoshi Nakamoto.Why should Hal Finney be connected to Satoshi Nakamoto? After all the only acquaintance Finney new and exchanged ideas with was Nick. Of course, it didn’t help that Hal lived in the same town and possibly even the same neighborhood as Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto for 10 years. Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto was accused by several reporters to be the creator of Bitcoin.Yet, one reporter writing an article for the New York Times stated how he had received an email from an acquaintance of Finney’s who asked to remain anonymous. Within this email, the writer points out that while he was doing research on the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, he’d come to the conclusion that Nick Szabo is the name behind the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto.The email that was sent to the reporter goes into great detail about why the writer got the impression that Satoshi Nakamoto may very well be Nick Szabo.Let’s RecapIn April 2008 Nick Szabo’s wrote a blog post highlighting the blueprint for his conception of Bit Gold. On that post, he asks for help to code the cryptocurrency. In October 2008 a white paper was released for Bitcoin with strikingly similar attributes to that of Bit Gold. Then Mr. Szabo’s backlists his blog post to December 2008 to appear to have come up with the idea for Bit Gold only after Bitcoin’s white paper was released.Then in 2010 when Bitcoin made headway by breaking the one cent mark and skyrocketing to $0.20, Nick Szabo’s remained silent. Even though the technology and idealism was spot on to what he had talked about previously on his blog. You would think that a
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