I am guessing the real Satoshi has met other people in real life. I am guessing the vast majority of those people do not know he is Satoshi.
Perhaps this would be then:
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Inter-universal%20Teichmuller%20Theory%20I.pdfHis writing style is dense. It's like an onion of brilliance that Satoshi simply doesn't have.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0303109v1.pdfA paper from Perlman
http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0404188v6.pdfGreen and Tao's paper.
You'll notice they are all deep and indicate minds lost on the edge of a mathematical ocean. Satoshi's paper was nothing like these. You can't turn off a writing style nor can you turn off a mind orders of magnitude beyond that of satoshi's. If it was Shinichi, then he would have most likely shared bitcoin first with Dr. Appel
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/ or his friend Susumu Nishimura
http://www.math.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~susumu/. The fact that Satoshi reached out to both Adam Back and Hal tells me he was young and without professional contacts he could trust. When you get older in academia you develop friends.
Section 7 of Satoshi's paper really confirms this for me:
Once the latest transaction in a coin is buried under enough blocks, the spent transactions before
it can be discarded to save disk space. To facilitate this without breaking the block's hash,
transactions are hashed in a Merkle Tree [7][2][5], with only the root included in the block's hash.
Old blocks can then be compacted by stubbing off branches of the tree. The interior hashes do
not need to be stored.
A block header with no transactions would be about 80 bytes. If we suppose blocks are
generated every 10 minutes, 80 bytes * 6 * 24 * 365 = 4.2MB per year. With computer systems
typically selling with 2GB of RAM as of 2008, and Moore's Law predicting current growth of
1.2GB per year, storage should not be a problem even if the block headers must be kept in
memory.
This scheme is raw and would be something someone like Shinichi would be greatly bothered with. It begs a significant mathematical analysis that a computer scientist would be hesitant to perform. A mathematician like Shinichi would love to explain in detail growth. You should see the 500 pages he wrote on the ABC conjecture. Satoshi's paper is the work of a graduate student. It's a white paper to explain an experiment.
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