Topic: I can't find any information on Nick Szabo, is he is who he says he is? - page 3. (Read 12347 times)

The reality is the real Satoshi has an incredible amount of wealth and power.  People say, "It doesn't matter who created bitcoin," but it certainly does.  It doesn't affect the code, that has been checked and rechecked.  It doesn't affect us "why" he did it.  What does affect everyone is that he owns 10%.  Satoshi was a creater, an inventor.  All inventors love to invent.  What if...... he left bitcoin.  What if he started working on a new project that was even better.  If he wants to take ALL of the wealth in the bitcoin community to his new creation, he can easily do that.  He sell out every buy wall, and drive the price down to $0.01 per bitcoin and keep it there.  And when it is that low, nobody will buy.  Then he can take all the money he made and transfer it into his new project.  Everybody thinks he wouldn't do that.  Steve Jobs moved Cube to Apple.  That is just one example.  Lots of inventors have turned their back on a previous invention only to incorporate it into a new product they feel is vastly greater.  So yes, it matters who he is as long as he owns 10%.  If he burns it, then it doesn't matter.  If he even so much as touches a single block, the price will go down a lot.  He can instantly devalue everyone's worth by 10% if he puts up a high wall.  Everyone's money just lost 10%, but in reality more.  And if he clears all the walls, which he can do, it is game over for bitcoin.  So yeah, I would like to know who he is and what is plans are.  

Why this search of "who is" for Bitcoin its better if Satoshi stays a myth at this point maybe later, maybe never IMO

So stop the witchhunt!

Nick is the second layer! 

Handful to go lol

The only reason someone would go through all this trouble is they are A) A nutter B) The Government C) Truly and honestly believe their life would be in danger for an idea that hadn't yet been successful.

My guess is B.

A better question is does Nick Szabo even exist, rather than is he who he claims to be. We have no photos of him, and the University he claims to work at denies he was ever employed there.

Is he a real person, or just another pseudonym like Satoshi Nakamoto? If he really is/was a professor, then surely students who went there would have had interactions with him and can verify that he exists.

What proof is there that Nick Szabo is a real person?

like you said, its not proof of anything (obviously).

Double spaces after end of a sentence?  I do that too.  Isn't that normal?  That's the way we were taught in school.

Good finding, but it seems Hal was not the only one to use double spaces. Look at this e-mail. The person he is replying to also does use double space.
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/openpgp/current/msg04987.html


Going thru' the list there are other users using double spaces after periods, looks like it was a usual behaviour in that mail list.

I am Satoshi Nakamoto

sounds like Nick Szabo may be a pen name , who may or may not be Satoshi.

That's what Leah McGrath Goodman told herself.

A individual can call himself a journalist but it doesn't change the indecency or consequence of their choice to violate a good person's privacy.

Yes, these language analysis people don't have proof. Szabo is/was the main expert on cryptocurrencies and he published a lot about it online. The Bitcoin paper is EXPECTED to use the same words/termiology as Szabo and Bitgold. It's also perfectly possible that the Bitcoin paper avoids mentioning Bitgold just because it's heavily influenced by it. I've seen people do this all the time at the Universities.

The language analyses point out things like using timestamped as a verb and phrases like "trusted third parties", "for our purposes" and commas after and and but.

According to this I am likely Satoshi Nakamoto in the same way the narrator is Tyler Durden in Fight Club. This way of writing appears to be just normal to me.

If I had to bet my money on who is Satoshi Nakamot, I would still put it on Szabo, though.

That's not how journalism works.

The only reason to hunt someone down is if they've personally harmed you. Satoshi has done a great thing and wants to be left alone. Why can't people respect that?

There is one more thing wrong, Szabo claimed himself to be a law professor at GW University.

"UPDATE: According to George Washington University, it has no record of Mr. Szabo ever working at the school as a law professor. An earlier version of this post stated that Mr. Szabo was a former George Washington University law professor."

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/04/16/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-unmasked-again/

Thanks, removing the picture. This man is as secretive as Satoshi.

What I fined humorous is the almost diagnosable social issues these men have. I am starting to think secrecy is not the most important thing because of the work they do more so than their own psychological issues.

Just adds to the stigma.

His allusiveness adds to his enigma though. It's weird that  there's no pictures. Maybe he wants it that way.

He is not Satoshi. 

http://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/news/local-news/former-soldier-nicholas-szabo-loses-3318262

The above partial picture is that.  That is the wrong Szabo.

Regarding the twitter picture.  Can someone tweet that guy to ask where he got it?