Every month or two I get the itch to continue on my elusive quest to search for Satoshi. As we all know, your words are your fingerprint, and anything can be traced back to someone or any group of people that originally wrote it. Knowing this, I wanted to use some of my own stylometry to figure out the puzzle, or at least muddy the waters.
We have all heard the story of the phrase “computationally impractical to reverse", and the patent application which uses the same phrase:
Feb 18, 2010—… the outputs of which are fixed-size strings that are computationally impractical to reverse-map."
Now, I don't have a supercomputer or anything of that matter, and wanted to do some good hard down-home brute-force style work with the original whitepaper, dated Oct 31, 2008.
Before I get to that let me be clear that this is just my musing around looking for clues to the man himself, and am no way giving any facts. This is just an experiment in circumstantial evidence.
example 1:https://i.imgur.com/Hv1RO0G.pngThe phrasing of "leave or rejoin the network at will", both used on October 31st 2008. Now, was Satoshi reading up on P2P articles and used this phrase for his abstract the day of publishing? Could be. This phrase has only been used on or after the whitepapers release, from what I could find on the internet. I did more digging on this article leading down a rabbit hole to whitepaper references, etc. But I won't get into that.
example 2:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-85230-8_25An Efficient Anonymous Credential System
Taken from
Financial Cryptography and Data Security
12th International Conference, FC 2008, Cozumel, Mexico, January 28-31, 2008. Revised Selected Papers
I'll let you look at the link and see if any of the names jump out at you.Another title from the paper at this conference includes
Improvement of Efficiency in (Unconditional) Anonymous Transferable E-Cash
These two examples show that the hunt for Nakamoto will
never end and armchair Bitcoin enthusiasts like me will always be on the lookout, even though the NSA probably already know who he is.
