Not remotely funny or interesting.
neither is your thread....hint: use the search function
Cryptic as fuck but not helpful.
brah, there are a million threads relating Szabo to Nakamoto. Look, all I know is Szabo denied it.
I can tell you the truth but have no PGP key to sign but, neither does Szabo so....
-Satoshi was a group
-They hid behind the name to protect themselves
-No one was a brilliant cryptographer in the group, moreso computer saavy libertarians
-Hash Cash already existed that was the model. The problem was coins could be duped/double spent with Hash Cash.
-The inventive step was having other nodes verify transactions and making it P2P
-The reason for the white paper over a patent was not some great charitable act. Patent immediately implies ownership and again potential legal action or jail time for the inventors
-The white paper also gave bitcoin freedom to operate from patent trolls that may file after it came out and want royalties
-The person who made the main inventive step never received a dime
-The rest were really just minor experimental details (how to incentivize miners, how many coins, how long to make the mining process, fees)
-In retrospect I wonder if a patent would of been better, but I think it caught on much quicker being open source so, IDK
I wasn't trying to be funny back there. Just because I don't have a PGP key from back then doesn't mean I don't remember how it happened.