Satoshi speculum

Stefan Claas spam.trap.mailing.lists at gmail.com
Mon Mar 8 13:57:24 PST 2021


On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 3:13 PM Peter Fairbrother <peter at tsto.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 08/03/2021 04:54, professor rat wrote:
> > “Whoever Satoshi was, they were very much ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’ – Bitcoin was the culmination of decades of accumulated research and discourse within the Cypherpunk community…
> >
> > https://dailyhodl.com/2021/03/07/new-theory-claims-cryptographer-len-sassaman-is-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto/
> >
>
>
> Len was an excellent cryptographer (and a very good friend), but he
> couldn't write code like Satoshi.
>
> He was not Satoshi. He would have been amused by the idea that people
> thought he was.
>
> Satoshi is - a different chap :)

My take would be that Hal was Satoshi., but we can't proof it, I
strongly assume.
And at the and it is better to not know who Satoshi was, I guess.

Regards
Stefan


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