A follow up to <a href="https://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/03/141011155/did-a-reporter-just-solve-the-bitcoin-mystery" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/03/141011155/did-a-r...</a><p>Which was discussed in <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3068991" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3068991</a>
Isn't Wei Dai more likely? Dai wrote the original paper on b-money, Satoshi's coding style is remarkably similar to Dai's, and bitcoin makes extensive use of Dai's Crypto++ library. Dai doesn't like attention.
Why does it matter who came up with the idea for bitcoin? The protocol and the code are freely available for anyone to review.<p>I don't understand why people are pursuing a guy who didn't do anything wrong and doesn't want to be found.
"'I think he didn’t get my sense of humour there – maybe it was a little dry for him,' Clear says. Above all, though, he says, 'I have never been deeply interested in economics.'"<p>Wait, so it was just a big misunderstanding?