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Comment by stavros | Hacker News Reader

I heard that Satoshi was Hal Finney (from a good friend of Hal's). Looking at his personal site, guess how many spaces there are after a period:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140403012916/http://www.finney...

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I think it's a fair bet that Satoshi is either dead, insane, or the government. Finney checks the most likely one.

The government is a new (but fun) one for me! What's the theory there?

It's a mechanism by which the CIA(or others!) could pay operatives covertly.

I'm pretty sure i read this like a decade ago, but to me it makes sense. Especially given that numbers stations apparently blared out orders into the late 1900s.

Never made sense to me.

Bitcoin is open. Cash is private and anonymous.

If monero was the first currency to come out I would’ve considered that.

Satoshi Nakamoto translates directly unquestionably into: Central Intelligence... Freedom Baby.. Bitcoin!!! Digital money!! iphones!

On this website there are single spaces following periods.

View source.

When HTML is rendered, multiple normal white space characters collapse into one, e.g. if you write "<p>Hello it's me</p>" it will be displayed in a browser as "Hello it's me". The source code tells the whole truth.

Haha, HN seems to have removed your demo whitespace. (Even in the source)

This is why back in the '00s my boss forced us to put a space and an " " after every period. Ugh.

The writing style matches the emails as well.

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