[Cryptography] NYT on Nick Szabo and Bitcoin

Bill Frantz frantz at pwpconsult.com
Sun May 17 17:17:07 EDT 2015


On 5/17/15 at 9:07 AM, jya at pipeline.com (John Young) wrote:

><http://t.co/2zgTpKDPaa>nytimes.com/2015/05/17/business/decoding-the-enigma-of-satoshi-nakamoto-and-
>the-birth-of-bitcoin.html
>
>Those around cypherpunks 1993-1998 will recall Szabo's emails on
>bitcoin early precursors along with Adam Back, Hal Finney, Tim May,
>Wei Dai, Lucky Green, Hettinga, many more burgeoning F-Cs. NYT
>piece credits cpunks as subversive birther, now being hyper-monetized
>by arch-cryptoanarchist Goldman Sachs and many more centralists.
>
>Szabo denies being Satoshi, but ... others rush to fill the gap

I think I'll credit Hal Finney. At least he's safe from any 
government retaliation.

Cheers - Bill

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