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I agree on the first point.

On the second point, no. I think we have a preponderance of evidence for Len Sassaman. He also explains why those bitcoin haven't moved, as well as many other peculiar things. This appears to be the most authoritative research that lays everything out: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.10257v14.pdf

If anyone actually reads that and comes to a different conclusion, I'd love to hear it and why.

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The fact it was a whitepaper highly suggests a lifelong academic who has spent their careers publishing papers like these men, not a PHD student. Also, some of the word choices in the whitepaper and the initial reference to London banks being bailed out again suggest Satoshi is not a native American english speaker.

Who do you think writes most of the papers in the academic world? And what do you think PhD students spend most of their time doing?

Not PhD students. Anything else.

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