What is going on here?
We have this:
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html describing, basically, bitcoin in Dec 2008 according to the page (although the url says 2005?). He says he's been thinking about it for years. Meanwhile, Satoshi published the whitepaper in, what, Nov 2008?
Either misleading or mindblowing.
Was that really written in 2005? The first comment refers to a 'recent' link, and the link appears to be from 2005...
I agree, it's suspicious, but probably scrutinized somewhere on the forum. So basically either Nick Szabo is Satoshi, or Satoshi was inspired by this guy, but changed it from Bit Gold to Bitcoin?
There is a comment on that post from "Patrick." I found that interesting as he was apparently in the process of developing an electronic currency at that time. Following his profile info gets you to these links:
Patrick's profile
http://www.blogger.com/profile/08715549273489573543Blog - Information Currency and Information Engineering - Information currency (
http://infoeng.sourceforge.net) and its applications.
http://infoeng.blogspot.com/Blog - Rothbardix - Technology for liberty and justice.
http://rothbardix.blogspot.com/The sourceforge project page (
http://infoeng.sourceforge.net) doesn't work too well. The very first time I went there I was able to get to the code download page. I was going to go back and download it but now only get an HTTP 500 error when I try to go to any of the project links on the project home page.
[EDIT]I was able to download the code. The files I have looked at so far are Java source files. I can't put any more time into it until much later today.[/EDIT]
