Just let me do some clarifications here ... I used to not properly make references on my academic papers .. some of my papers actually raised yellow flag on my university plagiarism detection system ... When I read the paper for the first time I was skeptical on how come a system like bitcoin only have 8 references... and the author h-index ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index ) was almost zero ...
In the beginning I though it was one of MIT pranks .. such as SicGen[1] ( https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/ ) or since the topic is cryptology maybe SCIpher - A Scholarly Message Encoder ( https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/scipher.html ) ...
But as I said when you see the thing working ... and you go wow ...
[1] that program already messed with few H-index calculators ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen#Spoofing_Google_Scholar_and_h-index_calculators )