Topic: I can't find any information on Nick Szabo, is he is who he says he is? - page 4. (Read 12369 times)

I am Satoshi Nakamoto

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Looks like a video still, but what gives this picture any credibility?

Perhaps he was happy to hear that his idea was getting widely adopted. Or may be, he never heard about the Bitcoin and its inventor, until the price rose to $1,200 in 2013. 

I also wonder why he never blamed Satoshi for stealing his idea and even his brand name? BitGold and BitCoin.

The partial image above is not the correct nick szabo.

I found a twitter poster claiming to have an old picture of him.

  https://mobile.twitter.com/AdrianChen/status/456922865992863744/photo/1

That was just a summary of a concept, it was not supposed to be rich in pratical details or definitive.

I think Nick has to explain how he came with the whole concept of bit gold, and why he abandoned and never wrote anything about it again. Maybe 'cause he started writing as Satoshi Nakamoto?

Conceptually it is not identical e.g, it is missing the automatically adjusting difficulty algorithm that keeps the bitcoin production rate, constant regardless of the advancement in proof-of-work hardware. (Szabo mentions that as a possible flaw in bit gold right at the end.)

Why don't we have a single photo of Szabo and no record (that I can find) of him working at George Washington University? !

Nick is the inventor of bit gold, which in theory is absolutely the same as bitcoin even the name looks like. The bit gold post is from 2008. If he is not Satoshi, they had some connection.

I don't care for the linguistics, the bit gold post is enough.

i do believe nick szabo is satoshi
or the most likely suspect of being satoshi
but i would respect satoshi's request for privacy so lets not get too deep into finding satoshi

He might be dead. If he's several people I wonder if it will make him easier or harder to track?
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On one hand harder and on the other easier. More people, more talk, more leaks etc. It has pros and cons.

I found this a good starting point, taken from Wiki. So question, who owns this forum at that time, why don't they expose the IP addresses, who caught vulnerability and had power/auth to fix it. I mean was this just a community hey anyone join in growth or what?

Creation[edit]

In November 2008, a paper was posted on the internet under the name Satoshi Nakamoto titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. This paper detailed methods of using a peer-to-peer network to generate what was described as "a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust".[8][9][10][11] In January 2009, the Bitcoin network came into existence with the release of the first open source Bitcoin client and the issuance of the first bitcoins,[9][12][13][14] with Satoshi Nakamoto mining the first block of bitcoins ever (known as the "genesis block"), which had a reward of 50 bitcoins. The value of the first bitcoin transactions were negotiated by individuals on the bitcointalk forums with one notable transaction involving a 10,000 BTC pizza.[9]

On 6 August 2010, a major vulnerability in the Bitcoin protocol was spotted. Transactions weren't properly verified before they were included in the transaction log or "block chain" which let users bypass Bitcoin's economic restrictions and create an indefinite number of bitcoins.[15][16] On 15 August, the vulnerability was exploited; over 184 billion bitcoins were generated in a transaction, and sent to two addresses on the network. Within hours, the transaction was spotted and erased from the transaction log after the bug was fixed and the network forked to an updated version of the Bitcoin protocol.[17][18] This was the only major security flaw found and exploited in Bitcoin's history.[15][16]

He might be dead. If he's several people I wonder if it will make him easier or harder to track?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo

Possibly only because if he/they went through so much trouble to stay private that any spending would create a trail.

Or they already sold out? Or it is gov backed so will never be spent or spent downt the road or or or...

For me personally I just don't care enough but what we need to know is the first hint of their use was when... Jed?

Start with that, has anyone ever asked Jed how he discovered them and how he developed a platform to trade them? He MUST I mean MUST know something.

Maybe this has been asked but it seems clear people must know something more and just haven't said. Be it money or threat of death, both likely reasons lol

I've never heard about Nick Szabo but thanks for giving me an idea how to call my new song. The name will be "is he is who he says he is?"

I think we wouldve found him by now. He obviously wasnt sloppy. The biggest mystery is the unspent coins.

Generally what I do if I want to find someone is first start with the closest link and work back.

Who do we KNOW worked with or must have worked with Satoshi, start with them, go back.

Really people unless Satoshi is  gov project and is in fact a real individual, he/she/they are able to be found.

I mean who founded the foundation, how did Jed start using the coin, who helped him, there are many leads to foloow.

There is another possibility. Szabo wrote his essay about Bit Gold in 2005. What if Satoshi Nakamoto plagiarized parts of his essay and incorporated some of the ideas in his paper on Bitcoin in 2008?

He looks like a turtle. So is there zero pictures of Szabo?

Bitcoin creator is 100% Satoshi Nakamoto or we don't really know? Also how Satoshi Nakamoto and Nick Szabo are related? Do you think Nick Szabo could be the creator of bitcoin?