[Cryptography] MAybe he's Adam Back, maybe not

[Peter Gutmann]

John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> writes:

>A long piece in the New York Times claims to have figured out that Satoshi is
>really Adam Back. Some of the clues seem plausible, like linguistic quirks and
>relations to hashcash, some less so like the code being written in C++.

It's all confirmation-biased examination of cloud pictures.  I've been
identified as Satoshi a couple of times based on grapholo... sorry, linguistic
analysis when I'm definitely not.  For example something that someone pointed
out was that I double-space at the end of sentences and (apparently) Satoshi
did too.  This isn't some personal quirk that identifies me as Satoshi but
something that anyone who learned to touch-type before maybe the mid-90s does
because that's how it was taught, and most people posting to cypherpunks in
2008 would be from that era.  So it's not "double-space = Satoshi quirk", it's
"double-space = learned to touch-type".

If you stare at the clouds long enough you're bound to see Satoshis somewhere.

Peter.