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

[Nico Williams]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 04:16:06AM +0000, Peter Gutmann via cryptography wrote:
>                            [...].  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".

I also do this, and I'm also not Satoshi.

I remember a video where a comedian explained she does it because "I'm
not an animal", but I can't find it now :(  I always think of that video
when this topic comes up.

There's a better reason to do this than "learned to touch-type", though
mentioning it risks starting a flame war: it disambiguates sentence-
ending periods from acronym periods.  IMO it's a very basic bit of
markup/markdown that typesetting software should support by turning
those double spaces into wide single spaces.

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

Well, when it's cloudy anyways.

Nico
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