If Satoshi's paper was submitted in academia would it earn a Masters or PhD?

[Sukrim]

Isn't satoshi electible for economic noble prize?
I mean how many of those "pontes" has already been proven wrong just by the existence of bitcoin?

Very few if any.

[mikeymillie]

Nope. A Masters or PhD thesis with less than 50 pages is too little.
This could be published as an article on a journal of Cryptography, though.
Or maybe a journal of Computing or Applied Maths.

Not necessarily too short, formatting considered.  If Satoshi's paper had complete dissertation-style references, citations, and a lot more raw data in tables, figures, and proofs it could easily hit the 100+ page mark without adding a single extra word of narrative description. It would only need some minor restructuring to accommodate these additional elements.  Also, critical portions of the proof of concept client source code would be considered 'pages' in the overall paper length as well.  On a side note, for hard sciences, there almost isn't a separate dissertation writeup any more - instead I am seeing a trend toward taking 3 or 4 graduate level papers and/or articles you've already written and have them worked thematically into one dissertation since, for practical reasons, they typically share a lot the same research data you have already compiled. Satoshi's paper (if complete citations and references were added) would easily equate to one or two of these since it addresses multiple disciplines.

[jdbtracker]

Sadly that is true. A Ph.D thesis should have a minimum of 200-300 pages.

This is why I hate academia. It's based on rubbish like how many references your paper gets, or how big your vocabulary is. Not so much the actual idea you're writing about. Sometimes I read an entire page which could be summarised in one sentence without losing any content at all.

Source: I work with academics/researchers and see this every single day.

Gotta get out of the rut, really. In Academia yes, lots of Socratic rhetoric with little proof, but in the scientific community... you gotta build your own project and prove it works, submit it to others to reproduce the results and confirm the findings.

I don't know what Satoshi would get, probably a PhD for the work, but for that white paper... It's readable, It was no doubt written for the masses, an excellent work of advertisement.

I have always wondered though, can we find others work by Satoshi from simply examining their writing style and coding methods? Off topic but, it would be nice to see if we could find examples of their work elsewhere.