I'm not sure if the author is a programmer as such, but there are a few inferences which seem unjustified to me.<p>For example,<p>> However, it is possible to reveal a very important detail about Satoshi Nakamoto’s personality. The fact that Satoshi chose the genesis block with a certain timestamp (which included the sentence in the UK Times article) makes one realize how much preparation and meticulousness was behind Satoshi’s identity.<p>This is immediately following a code snippet in which it is clear that <i>some</i> value must be hard-coded; it would be the work of seconds to think up a value that was funny or meaningful. I don't see why this indicates any preparation or meticulousness.<p>Another example:<p>> The other comment that arouses curiosity is this one: //// is this all we want to do if there's a file error like this?<p>> Who was Satoshi referring to when speaking in the plural?<p>Isn't this completely normal in programming? I only ever use the plural first person in code unless I'm specifically referring to myself as a human (in the same way that academic writing uses the plural).
It's a bad article. As one example:<p>> The transaction in the first block is a coinbase transaction ― consisting of an input and an output. We recognize that it is a coinbase transaction (i.e. coin creation) from one key element: The number of inputs is equal to 1 (this condition is explicit in Satoshi’s code).<p>That's not what's characteristic for a coinbase transaction, many transactions might have only one input. What's characteristic is that the input comes out of no-where, so to speak, and has no predecessor. In other words, it's the second part of the condition below, not the first one, that characterises CoinBase:<p><pre><code> bool IsCoinBase() const
{
return (vin.size() == 1 && vin[0].prevout.IsNull());
}</code></pre>
The original thread is more interesting: <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=382374.msg4108815#msg4108815" rel="nofollow">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=382374.msg4108815#ms...</a><p>...& bitcointalk has many more ideas OP might wanna fill his blog with
The article links to the first version of the source code:<p><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/nakamotoinstitute/code/bitcoin-nov08.tgz" rel="nofollow">https://s3.amazonaws.com/nakamotoinstitute/code/bitcoin-nov0...</a><p>Reading it now.<p>It seems beautiful except for the strange fact that there is a random number of empty lines between the code blocks.<p>Why would someone who obiviously likes the beauty of code and writing in general not fix those?
> Unfortunately, due to a problem also present in the first public version of Bitcoin, Satoshi could never spend the money from that transaction.<p>What evidence suggests that this was unintentional? It offers a sense of fairness and objectivity from the originator, without generalizing the concept of a transactionless block or requiring any special logic to enforce it.
What if the identity of Satoshi Nakimoto is just some guy who almost no-one has ever heard of, not a famous cryptographer?<p>Perhaps he's a software developer working a modest job in some company somewhere, chuckling to himself as he reads all these outlandish conspiracy theories about his identity.<p>Maybe he retired to make cheese as a hobby. Maybe he's now an old man with a pipe and a walking stick who regularly enjoys the company of his grandkids. Maybe he died and took the secret with him to the grave. Not as fun to think about, but if so, it'll happen some day, and the mystery will remain forever.
The most accurate and serious articles about the analysis of Satoshi Nakamoto early days is from our co-founder Sergio Lerner [1]. For example [2]. He is an authority in the field (you can easily check that) so in any case I recommend OP to review the data with him.<p>[1] <a href="https://bitslog.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bitslog.com/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://bitslog.com/2020/08/22/the-patoshi-mining-machine/" rel="nofollow">https://bitslog.com/2020/08/22/the-patoshi-mining-machine/</a>
Slightly off topic, but the site seems to be generated by "Olivetti 0.104.3". Has anyone heard of this static site generator? Google's not helping.
> the source code does not contain all the files needed to generate a binary.<p>This strikes me as the action of a self-conscious individual, that also needs the validation of an external group because he is working alone.
Satoshi: “Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard.”
<a href="https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/threads/79/?view=satoshi" rel="nofollow">https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/thre...</a><p>Elon Musk: “Bloody hell, I’m going to have to write a blog. Can’t fit this into tweets.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/943887056492564480" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/943887056492564480</a>
Highly specific commonalities between Satoshi Nakamoto and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk<p><a href="https://medium.com/coinmonks/highly-specific-commonalities-between-satoshi-nakamoto-and-co-founder-of-paypal-elon-musk-4120f36da702" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/coinmonks/highly-specific-commonalities-b...</a>
It recently surfaced that Elon Musk's x.com email was active on the original Cypherpunk mailing list. <a href="https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/x_x_at_x_com_/" rel="nofollow">https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/x_x_...</a><p>In 1998.
Adam Back seems like the kind of clumsy genius who would lose his seed phrase and also somehow manage to hide in plain sight.<p>I read somewhere that satoshi nakamoto means central intelligence in japanese, not sure if thats true.