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LikeInAMirror
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LikeInAMirror is a personal blog at likeinamirror.wordpress.com about programming and economics. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Satoshi Nakamoto is probably Nick Szabo?”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its stylometric textual analysis arguing that Nick Szabo is Satoshi Nakamoto, plus a follow-up post comparing the writing of other cryptocurrency figures against Satoshi's.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Satoshi Nakamoto is probably Nick Szabo?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-12-01
- /2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-nick-szabo/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-03-07
What Hacker News says?
https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakam... After this article came out Szabo denied that he is Satoshi.
Comment linking /2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-nick-szabo/
on “Satoshi's Hashrate”Submitted Satoshi Nakamoto is probably Nick Szabo? as a story · 255 points
HN discussion> https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakam... Seems possible, although the textual analysis seems a bit weak. Combined with everything else its quite convincing
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on “How to Start an Anonymous Blog”Submitted Satoshi Nakamoto is (probably) Nick Szabo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't know about "stylometry", but textual analysis is definitely a field that is grounded in statistics and probability. And here's an excellent textual analysis of Satoshi's writing -- really quite convincing: https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakam... The verdict? Nick Szabo, a professor of computer science at GWU and trained attorney, with significant expertise in the digital economy and s…
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on “Linguistic Analysis Says Newsweek Named The Wrong Man As Bitcoin's Creator”This is fairly convincing for me: https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakam...
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on “Bit gold (2005)”It is remarkable that there was no such denial when Nick Szabo was widely outed as a likely Satoshi in tech blogs and the press a few months ago: http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamo...
Comment linking /2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-nick-szabo/
on “Man Denies He's Bitcoin Founder”Another interesting article by Nick Szabo is here: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/02/irreducible-complex... , where he discusses proof-of-work (2006) and what he saw as the problem with it. Actually, a compelling theory is that Nick Szabo (possibly in collaboration with others) is Satoshi Nakamoto: http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamo... .
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on “The God Protocols (1997)”This type of work was used to find Satoshi at least once. This is the one I remember: https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakam...
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on “Forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases”The blogger who suggested this hypothesis a few months ago has a new post, with a stylometric analysis of the writings of some cryptocurrency people: http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/occams-razor-w... (a smaller score mean a closer match. Not sure what scores stand for precisely). Word length distribution Diff Nick Szabo / Bitcoin: 0.160 Diff Wei Dai / Bitcoin: 0.241 Diff David Chaum / Bitcoin: 0.257 Di…
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on “Nick Szabo is Satoshi Nakamoto, the Inventor of Bitcoin”A previous text analysis had identified the same person (as well as a number of converging clues): http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/occams-razor-w... http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamo...
Comment linking /2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-nick-szabo/
on “Bitcoin Creator ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ Unmasked as Nick Szabo”
