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I Think I Know Who Satoshi Is

TheTedNelson · 245.8K views · 2013-05-18 · 12:42

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Overview

A 13-minute video in which Ted Nelson lays out his theory about who created Bitcoin, proposing that Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym for mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki.

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Cited as the source of Nelson's claim about Satoshi's identity, mostly as an amusing curiosity.

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davisr · 2015-10 · Reference

Ted Nelson believes that Mochizuki is the real Satoshi behind Bitcoin, because of the way both projects were dumped into the world's lap. I just saw his video last night: [VIDEO]

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oscilloscope · 2013-08 · Reference

Ted Nelson created a YouTube series, Computers for Cynics, which is his history of modern computing technology. [LINK] In one amusing video, he proposes that Satoshi Nakomoto, the creator of Bitcoin, is a pseudonym used by Shinichi Mochizuki, the mathematician who found a proof for the abc conjecture with his inter-universal geometry. [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK]

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lucb1e · 2013-05 · Reference

The video: [VIDEO] If he had wanted to speak to the man directly, he could have cryptographically done so. Tell the world that you know who he is, but not reveal the name, then publish a cryptographic hash of his name. That probably catches the real guy's attention (regardless of whether Ted got it right or not).

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