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Comment author: mfreis 16 March 2014 11:51:11AM 2 points [-]

Thank you so much Wei Dai for all the answers.

You say other previously active member would have been identified base on this writing and coding style. There is exacly what Skye Grey says he/she's doing for matching Szabo with Satoshi on the blog LikeinaMirror - he say's he's 99,9% sure Szabo is Satoshi. https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2014/03/

Dorian Nakamoto theory may have any ground?

What made you think Satoshi motivation was distrust rather than crypto-anarchy? Someone that have loose money for instance in Lehman Brothers banrupcy? It was also in 2008

Why is anonimity important to crypto community? Just to confirm, Wei Dai is a pseudonym?

Thank you again

Comment author: Wei_Dai 17 March 2014 12:38:19AM 3 points [-]

I agree with gwern's answers and will add a couple of my own.

Dorian Nakamoto theory may have any ground?

No, I doubt it.

Why is anonimity important to crypto community?

  1. We think it's cool because the technology falls out of our field of research.
  2. Anonymity provides privacy and security against physical violence, and cryptographers tend to care about privacy and security.
Comment author: gwern 16 March 2014 06:10:13PM *  2 points [-]

There is exacly what Skye Grey says he/she's doing for matching Szabo with Satoshi on the blog LikeinaMirror - he say's he's 99,9% sure Szabo is Satoshi. https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2014/03/

Grey's post is worthless. I haven't written a rebuttal to his second, but about his first post, see http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ruluz/satoshi_nakamoto_is_probably_nick_szabo/cdr2vgu

What made you think Satoshi motivation was distrust rather than crypto-anarchy? Someone that have loose money for instance in Lehman Brothers banrupcy? It was also in 2008

Because he said so. Haven't you done any background reading? (And how many private individuals could have lost money in Lehman Brothers anyway...)

Why is anonimity important to crypto community?

Seriously?

Just to confirm, Wei Dai is a pseudonym?

No, it's real.

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