did an american “small-town youth” create bitcoin? the mystery of satoshi nakamoto’s life experience may be revealed
2024-10-06
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according to arrangements, the american hbo channel will release a documentary "money electronics: the mystery of bitcoin" on october 8, directed by karen hoback. according to the currently released trailer, many american netizens believe that this documentary will reveal the true identity of bitcoin founder "satoshi nakamoto".on the cryptocurrency website polymarket, netizens have been placing bets through smart contracts on this important topic, with the total amount bet so far exceeding us$380,000. surprisingly, 63.5% of netizens at one time placed bets that the originally unknown "small town young man" len sassaman might be the real person of "satoshi nakamoto", and the american software engineer ha, who has always been regarded as a popular candidate, rod finney was supported by only 12.4% of bets. open ai, google and microsoft's ai tools all predict that finney will be revealed in the documentary as "satoshi nakamoto."
▲len sassaman
len sassaman's short life is legendary. on july 3, 2011, at the age of 31, he committed suicide due to depression and functional neurological disorder. although sassaman grew up in a small, isolated town in pennsylvania, he was involved in many important historical moments in the early days of the internet.
sassaman joined the internet engineering task force when he was 18 and was responsible for building the tcp/ip protocol underlying the internet. in 1999, he moved to the bay area, which has a strong technology atmosphere, and his roommates included cohen, the founder of bittorrent (torrent download). in 2004, sassaman, who only had a high school education, was admitted as a doctoral student by the computer security and industrial cryptography research group of the catholic university of leuven in belgium. he later worked in the group as a researcher until his death. his mentor is david chaum, the “father of digital currency”.
▲a tribute to len sassaman in the bitcoin network
according to us media investigations in recent years, the possibility that sasaman is "satoshi nakamoto" has been "discovered" little by little. first of all, from the perspective of work and rest habits and daily vocabulary, "satoshi nakamoto" is likely to be in europe, and sassaman in belgium fits this characteristic. "satoshi nakamoto" said in a post that "the difficulty of mining increased yesterday". if he lived in the united states, his time zone would not be "yesterday". in addition, the main research circle for encryption technology at that time was in the united states. normally speaking, "satoshi nakamoto" was most likely an american, or at least someone closely connected with the american academic circle. at that time, there were not many people who met this condition and were based in europe. indivual.
what is even more illustrative is that the frequency of articles published by "satoshi nakamoto" surges during the winter and summer vacations, and almost disappears at the end of the spring and autumn semesters when scholars are busy with academic assessments. during working days, "satoshi nakamoto" is often active in the evening or late at night during european hours, showing the characteristics of a "night owl".
the most coincidental thing is that two months before sassaman committed suicide, "satoshi nakamoto" suddenly posted: "i have moved on to other things and may not be here again in the future."
however, the hbo trailer also reminds the audience that it is impossible for anyone to be 100% sure who the real identity of "satoshi nakamoto" is. "if a person is smart enough to create bitcoin rules, then he is probably smart enough to hide it." all his whereabouts."
red star news reporter zheng zhi
editor pan li editor-in-chief li xueli
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