Topic: My guess at Satoshi: Robert A. Hettinga - page 2. (Read 6771 times)

That is interesting, but..

1. none of those are super rare.
2. I (and others I'm sure) eventually start mimicking after talking to or reading from someone for a while.
3. If I were hiding I would make sure to remove my own previously shown idiosyncrasies, but not think of ones I'd picked up from others considering them standard.

Interesting. Can you provide some links?

I know, it's like hiding in plain sight. Well, you never know and frankly, I prefer the mystery. 

Lol, please. Like satoshi is going to keep hidden and then Gavin is going to use his real name. Clear? Transparent? Get it?

The chances of Satoshi being a single person are slim. I am skeptical of Gavin's explanation for the name Clearcoin.

Earlier today I posted a thread on the interesting October 10th article in the New Yorker positing that Satoshi was Michael Clear, a grad student at Trinity. After a review of some of the forum posts and paper by "Satoshi" I do not think it could be him. Even though occasional British spellings are used, the overall language is very Americanized. Also, the writer is much older than 23. He refers to the USENET, for example. Also, the writer's fluent knowledge of cryptocurrency issues is way too thorough for a youngster, even a brilliant one.

Like others I analyzed the language of the Satoshi posts and quickly noticed word collisions with posts of another contributor, Robert A. Hettinga. For example,

.......Right, exactly.
.......synchronisation (spelled with an 's')
.......etched
.......shenanigans

Hettinga founded the "Digital Commerce Society of Boston" and has been intensely interested in digital currency for many years. He would know Gavin Andresen personally through that group. As a young man he went to school in St. Thomas explaining the occasional Britishisms in his writings. Hettinga has extensive expertise in digital currencies and deep familiarity with DigiCash. He has been relentlessly pushing for a digital currency for decades.

I suspect Hettinga designed the Bitcoin system and wrote the paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" and paid (or invited) a contractor, possibly David Chaum himself, to do the heavy lifting on the coding of the initial version. Hettinga may even have coded it himself. Overall he seems to be a close match philosophically, culturally and technically to be Satoishi.