[Cryptography] The Strange Story of Satoshi Nakamoto's Spelling Choices: Part 1.

Mark Rousell mark.rousell at signal100.com
Thu Jan 7 13:58:49 EST 2021


On 07/01/2021 03:17, Mark Rousell wrote:
> On 05/01/2021 16:57, bit wrote:
>> *Satoshi Was Consistently Inconsistent*
>>
>> Perhaps, the biggest takeaway from our research is that Satoshi was
>> highly inconsistent in his use of American and British spelling and
>> he was inconsistent from the very beginning. Many have noticed that
>> in the Bitcoin whitepaper the British spelling of "favour", however,
>> seemingly no one had spotted that in the same paper, he used American
>> spelling for "characterized" (British: "characterised").
>> Interestingly, this irregularity would have been consistent with the
>> rules of Canadian English.
>>
>>
> This was quoted on Dave Farber's IP list to which I replied with this:-
>
> As a British Englisher I can conform that this is not the case.
>
Oops, spelling errors happen it seems!  s/conform/confirm/

That was quite unintentional.


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Mark Rousell
 
 
 

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