The data suggests that Nick Szabo is really Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin and it even seems that in some interviews he is subconsciously slipping away.
There are just a few days to go until January 3, a key date for Bitcoin. On January 3, 2009, the Genesis block of the Bitcoin blockchain was signed and generated. That day for lovers of cryptography, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, is a very important date. For some time now, there are many who have put 'Jan 3' in their names on Twitter in reference to January 3, a key and a block. Someone has simply put 'Jan 3' and a key. This has been Nick Szabo or rather Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Nick Szabo is with very little margin for error Satoshi Nakamoto, father of Bitcoin.
The New York Times on May 15, 2015 pointed out that Nick Szabo was the one behind the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, the most relevant figure in Bitcoin. A couple of years before, Satoshi Nakamoto had already disappeared from the scene, just when Szabo deleted his website, where he was talking about Smart Contracts.
Smart Contracts are known and popular today thanks to Ethereum, but nothing could be further from the truth. It should be noted that Bitcoin also uses them, in a different way and also supports them, although as it is not Full Turing, it is more limited. But what if Bitcoin uses Smart Contracts because there are no references to this in the Whitepaper? It could be due to a later addition to make the protocol more robust, although something else is missing from the document.
Bit Gold is Szabo's idea that is closer to what Bitcoin will eventually be. It's funny that Adam Back's Hashcash and Wei Día's b-money are mentioned and not Szabo. That smart contracts are not mentioned may make sense, but that Bit Gold is not mentioned is absurd. This would be indicative that their undeveloped solution serves as the basis for Bitcoin.
Satoshi's book with the Bitcoin Whitepaper in Spanish
Smart Contract, transaction signature, public key and private key.
Possibly the biggest clue is in the revised 1999 document on their website. The document titled 'Contracts with Bearer' clearly speaks of the public and private key (or asymmetric key). There is also talk of the verification of the property by means of a blind signature. But in addition the document speaks several times of David Chaum, a reputed cryptographer.
If we go to the original version from 1997 we will find the following reference: “Conserved objects can be used to selectively exclude not only scarce physical resources (such as CPU time, network bandwidth and response time, etc.), but also the fruits of intellectual labor, as long as one is willing to pay the price to interact with it. ”Here I was already talking about sharing resources for the validation of operations by receiving a counterpart.
A Formal Language for Analyzing Contracts
Nick Szabo's Essays, Papers, and Concise Tutorials
Programming language E
This is possibly unknown to everyone, even the most geeks. The programming language E is a language under Java. It is hardly known because it was discontinued very soon as it only worked well with Linux distributions. When the initial Smart Contracts appeared, they were generated like this and the idea seems to be that it was to create Bitcoin under E. This was discarded because with Windows it gave many errors and problems.
'Nour' and Nick Szabo
On November 30 after years without showing signs of life, Satoshi's P2P Foundation account came to life. Without further information I leave the message 'nour' that was translated by Google Translator as light or lighting in Arabic. According to 'urbandictionary' in English it means: “The most loving, caring and caring person you will ever meet. Extremely intelligent, funny and sensitive. A little lost, still figuring out what he wants in life and how to achieve it. Stubborn and unwilling to follow other people's advice. When he smiles, he makes you forget all the problems you have, his hug will give you the assurance that you have never felt and never will. "
Interestingly, Nick also opened an account on Twitter in 2014, shortly after he stopped working publicly in Bitcoin as Satoshi Nakamoto. It should be noted that in 2014 is the last message from Satoshi saying that he is not Dorian Nakamoto at the P2P Foundation. It does not seem accidental that I return and the first public message is on this website.
Have you confessed it and nobody has noticed?
Researching I have found two fascinating documents. The first is a very important Podcast about cryptocurrencies on Spotify. In it it seems that subconsciously he escapes that it is Satoshi (or perhaps intentionally)
Does Nick Szabo confide in the Spotify interview that he is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Perhaps the best document is a YouTube video from the Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala where Szabo is an honorary professor. From minute four they seem to recognize in the video that he is Satoshi Nakamoto. The video itself is not wasted because it talks about Smart Contracts, Bitcoin and something that worries everyone, the centralization of mining. Best of all, the video is from January 31, 2018.
But who is Nick Szabo?
If we search the web there is no reference to where he was born and on what date. This is something very curious and quite rare, not even in Wikipedia it appears. The only reference to his age is on Twitter, in his profile picture. Apparently he can be seen in that image as a child with a newspaper in his hands (The Times, maybe?)
Those who know him have always indicated that he is quite lonely and introverted, curiously the polar opposite of Finney. He and Hal Finney seem to have been great friends and no wonder, since Finney's RPOW is fundamental in BTC.
Modified your Wikipedia
Recently, and more specifically on November 27, your Wikipedia page has been modified. He previously appeared to have graduated from George Washington University School of Law. This reference no longer appears on the current page, which is quite curious. No other section of it has been touched.
Nick Szabo's Wikipedia before being modified on November 27
Conclusions
The only way there is is for Szabo to sign the Genesis block or sign a new block with his private keys. There are growing rumors on the net that on January 3 he will activate his dead wallets. If this happens and a message is signed with the original private key of the Genesis block, we better be well seated. Everything is speculation and information that only one person in the world can confirm.
Considering the data, we opted to think that 99% with the data that is handled, Nick Szabo is Satoshi Nakamoto. If he has hidden it, it is possibly because he does not want the fame or the money. The Cypherpunk philosophy does not seek profit, but rather to create a tool that offers privacy to users. Bitcoin is privacy. Bitcoin is money. Satoshi Nakamoto is Nick Szabo.
