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If this at least involved Len Sassaman somehow, I'd find it at least worthy of digging in to this. Pass. Musk and Thiel being true cypherpunks? Come on. Musk hasn't had a single idea on his own, Thiel is way too busy coming up with ways to enslave everyone. No way they had anything to do with creating Bitcoin.

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Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, Peter Todd, and Adam Back were definitely part of the team after the paper was published. But Len Sassaman? I don't think so.

> Musk and Thiel being true cypherpunks?

Even cypherpunks had bills to pay.

And who was hiring in 2007? The same people who disrupted the banking and oil industry with PayPal and Tesla.

People always forget about the great Wei Dai, who like Nakamoto is already sort of pseudonymous, he also created Bmoney which is allot like Bitcoin. He is also the creator of the Crypto++ cryptography library for C++ (bitcoin is written in C++) From all the OG Cypherpunks he ticks allot of the boxes.

True. Nothing gets built in isolation. Bitcoin was the result of decades of work by cryptographers, economists, investors, and engineers

Len went on for years about what a stupid idea Bitcoin was.

Agree. He was not impressed with Bitcoin

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