I’m the “SpaceX intern” who said Satoshi is Elon Musk. There's more to the story

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7 points·sahil50··4 comments

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"You're not a good fit"

"Wow what can I say"

The lesson I'd draw from this exchange is not <non sequiteur question> is true.

I'd draw the conclusion the respondant was sure they'd made the right call, you're not a good fit.

"Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye."

Santos hi is clearly an academic. The quality of the writing in his bitcoin paper is exactly of someone who’s written multiple papers.

Either the writer was hired but unlikely Elon wrote it.

Personally I don't think Satoshi is a single person. I'm pretty sure it's a group of people connected to the old cypherpunks usenet group and Adam Back is a strong candidate for the author of the paper itself and the person managing the Satoshi account. Back goes dark online when Satoshi starts posting, both use British english and a double space after each sentence. Back suddenly pops up again with expert level knowledge of bitcoin soon after the Satoshi account goes dark then founds a company called Blockstream specializing in blockchain tech. Plus Back has a PhD in distributed systems, has subject matter expertise in cryptography, is an experienced C++ programmer and invented HashCash in '97. The concepts behind HashCash underpin Bitcoin mining and HashCash is sited in Satoshi's paper. But that's just my two cents...

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