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Nothing really new here, just speculation that Nick Szabo is Satoshi. It mainly appears to be a submarine piece praising bitcoin.


It's nothing like a submarine piece. It has original reporting, no clear endorsement of any company (not even Vaurum). This is original reporting, don't discount it just because it doesn't go so far as to make crazy certainties about the identify of Satoshi.

Nobody writes a submarine piece and goes to bitcoin conferences.


What's new is info on Szabo, including that he worked at Vaurum, his age, and where he went to college.


Also:

  “I’m not Satoshi, and I’m not a college professor. 
  In fact, I never was a college professor.”
It was widely held belief that he is/was professor at George Washington University.


That part wasn't new, it was denied by GMU; see http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/04/16/bitcoin-creator-sa....

>Furthermore, George Washington University says that despite widespread reports that Mr. Szabo worked as a law professor at the school, it has no records of his ever working there in that capacity. The university did confirm, though, that he received a law degree from the school in 2006.


Whoops, I meant GWU.


Why would something like that need to be a a 'widely held belief' -- aren't faculty easily identifiable i.e. listed on their website, or confirmed via a phone call?


What is a submarine piece?





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