Ok thanks.It's an old link so he must have taken it down.
I was alluding to where did you glean it from?
I forget where it came from maybe off the forum here somewhere.Another theory suggests that computer scientists Donal O'Mahony and Michael Peirce/pierce are Satoshi, based on a paper that they authored concerning digital payments, along with Hitesh Tewari, based on a book that they published together. O’Mahony and Tewari also studied at Trinity College, where Michael Clear, a graduate cryptography student at Dublin's Trinity College was a student.
Of course we could go all the way around the clock and get back to Nick Szabo etc etc but who would like to wager a slice of pizza on who satoshi really is/are?
Yes you are correct.Very clever way to put things too.E-cash is the source of the Nile regarding Bitcoin.Then came opencoin which is now ripple however opencoin started before bitcoin and then later changed to ripple and headed up by McCaleb who is another contender.Here look at this further info for comparisons to see all related project types that correolate and if cross checking show similarities.
https://opencoin.org Originally named Opencoin and renamed Ripple,Ryan Fugger conceived Ripple in 2004 ...(andreessen/Chris Larsen,Jed McCaleb. etc etc)Began 2007.The Plan to Unite Bitcoin With All Other Online
History
The initial project was funded by the LDA, and brought together a team interested in law, cryptography, software, money theory, mobile phone development. This team produced the protocol, a first iteration of software, a legal report and a cryptographic report.
Now, after a break of about a years time, the project is getting momentum again, with usuable software being developed, and a strong desire to get it used in the real world.
"Our electronic cash system is based on the invention by David Chaum,
http://www.chaum.com/articles/Security_Wthout_Identification.htmhttp://www.researchgate.net/publication/2389681_The_Power_of_RSA_Inversion_Oracles_and_the_Security_of_Chaum's_RSA-Based_Blind_Signature_Scheme who delivered the basic cryptographic building block. Those blocks can then be used to setup a flow of communication, which gets standarized into a protocol."
Opencoin has developed such a protocol, and the protocol got a first audit by cryptographic experts. Result: 'we did not fall off our chairs laughing' - no obvious flaws were found.
http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-bitcoin-and-ripple