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Not Satoshi Nakamoto
Jose Abad-Peiro Martin Abadi Alessandro Acquisti Leonard Adleman Gordon Agnew Ross Anderson N. Asokan Derek Atkins Tuomas Aura Stefan Axelsson Philippe Béguin Jon Baber Adam Back Alireza Bahreman Shahram Bakhtiari Doug Barnes Don Beaver Mihir Bellare Steven Bellovin Josh Benaloh Francesco Bergadano Tom Berson Elisa Bertino Thomas Beth Albrecht Beutelspacher Eli Biham Tina Bird Alex […]
List of Satoshi Candidates
A list of Crypto folks: Aaron Swartz Abida Khattak Adam Back Adam Shostack Adam Young Adi Shamir Adrian Perrig Alain Mayer Alan Sherman Albert Levi Albrecht Beutelspacher Alessandro Acquisti Alessandro Piva Alex Biryukov Alfred J. Menezes Alfred Menezes Alfredo De Santis Ali Selcuk Alice Silverberg Alireza Bahreman Amir Herzberg Amir Taaki Amos Fiat Amr Youssef […]
Bitcoin source code from November 2008.
Accidentally discovered a mind-blowing artefact of Bitcoin history. I had heard rumors of its existence. I give you: the pre-release source code of Bitcoin! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=382374.0 … Confirmation by Satoshi many had access to code when he mined Genesis: http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November/014863.html … TL;DR Satoshi got many people to review the Bitcoin source code, so this means he […]
The Time Zones of Satoshi Nakamoto
An early draft of the Bitcoin paper from October 2008 has the following information in its metadata: 64 0 obj endobj A later draft, the one published at https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf has the following: 67 0 obj endobj Together the timestamp values 20081003134958–07’00’ and 20090324113315–06’00’ demonstrate that the computer used to export the paper to PDF had […]
NSA Backdoors and Bitcoin
Many cryptographic standards widely used in commercial applications were developed by the U.S. Government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Normally government involvement in developing ciphers for public use would throw up red flags, however all of the algorithms are part of the public domain and have been analyzed and vetted by professional cryptographers […]
Satoshi’s Genius: Unexpected Ways In Which Bitcoin Dodged Some Cryptographic Bullets
As far as open-source protocols go, one area in which Bitcoin is unique is the sheer difficulty of making any changes to the protocol. Unlike most other protocols, where features can be added, modified or deprecated at a moment’s notice, in the world of Bitcoin even the slightest change requires the simultaneous cooperation of the […]
NSA and ECC
I’ve been reading up recently on the revelations that the NSA is subverting implementations/service providers to undermine various internet crypto standards (see this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security). Now this has all of the basic hallmarks of a ‘scare campaign’ where people are led to believe that crypto techniques/mathmatics themselves are insecure rather than the truth that the NSA […]
Not all post 2011 Satoshi appearance has been debunked
Such a sensitive topic, so let me note a few things before I start: I will omit the guessing game of what Satoshi’s appearance would or would not matter/mean, what he wants or does not want and just present the hard facts. Not disproved ≠ proved, so do not misunderstand me… oh some of you […]
bitcoinj – lightweight simplified payment verification (SPV)
bitcoinj is a library for working with the Bitcoin protocol. It can maintain a wallet, send/receive transactions without needing a local copy of Bitcoin Core and has many other advanced features. It’s implemented in Java but can be used from any JVM compatible language: examples in Python and JavaScript are included. It comes with full […]