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Comment by mrhappyunhappy | Hacker News Reader

I firmly believe that Nick Szabo is Satoshi. Academic background, studies currencies, highly intelligent, worked on bitcoin-esque project before. Perhaps he had some help from a few close friends who do not know him as Satoshi.

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I'm pretty sure most people in the Bitcoin community know this, but it's generally avoided as a topic of discussion out of respect for Szabo.

Totally. I just pointed it out as others have speculated. I'm sure nobody will bother him about it and respect his denial. I wouldn't want to be outed as Satoshi either.

I think it was a group of people and Nick Szabo was definitely involved. Have you seen these basic stylometry analysis results that somewhat support this theory?

https://towardsdatascience.com/stylometric-analysis-satoshi-...

Nick Szabo as Satoshi Nakamoto seems way too obvious to be true -- I'm guessing he's probably a honeypot for Nakamoto's identity, so that the true Nakamoto remains hidden. That, or like another commenter mentioned, Nakamoto is a group of people and Nick Szabo may have had some involvement.

For the sake of the entire space, I'd hope this belief was whispered about in darker corners than HN ;)

He denied it. I'd doubt it on other grounds too, but that's good enough for me.

I asked him about it directly, in person, in private, in a place not likely to be surveilled, and he denied it then, too.

But there are incentives to maintain it as a separate cover identity, of course. Ultimately I personally don’t give two fucks about who Satoshi is/was but the fact that it has become this central witchhunt and front page news has taught me a tremendous amount about brand building and the power and necessity of identity and narrative in our society and world.

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