Things they talk about - energy consumption, crypto puzzles, similarity to gold, etc. In 2008! It is either Satoshi or someone very close - Hal Finney, Nick Szabo, Wei Dai, Dave Kleiman, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=blastomere
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> In humans, blastomere formation begins immediately following fertilization and continues through the first week of embryonic development.
They (Nick Szabo?) are posting about this on July 23, 2008 and trying to shill for Bit Gold. The Bitcoin white paper was released on August 18, 2008.
> Bit gold was one of the earliest attempts at creating a decentralized virtual currency, proposed by blockchain pioneer Nick Szabo in 1998. Although the bit gold project was never implemented, Szabo's attempt is widely considered to be the precursor to Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoin protocol.
People often try to peg Szabo as Satoshi but I have never felt it is him. Satoshi’s writing tone seems less blunt than Szabo’s. Satoshi is to the point, but Szabo always seems aggressive and confrontational.
Shilling for Bit Gold when you are about to launch Bitcoin a month later would be an odd move. Or is it just advanced subterfuge? I guess we will never really know.