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While somewhat plausible (and I have to admit I thought of the mathematician myself the first time Nelson presented his supposed properties), there is one reason to doubt this:

Building both Bitcoin and the vast framework to prove the ABC conjecture within a few years time would be too much for a single person, wouldn’t it?

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A recent article about Mochizuki's proof https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685166 that was a great read for the uninitiated like me.

Maybe for the average person who could even understand his writings (I can't). However after reading his short bio on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Mochizuki#Life

It sounds like this is an extraordinary man. And as Ted Nelson indicated, he graduated from Princeton as a salutatorian in only 3 years.

Certainly an extraordinary man, yes. But contrary to e.g. Einstein’s annus mirabilis, inter-universal geometry is not a few fancy new ideas in existing fields, which would generally allow to have many such ideas in a short time (albeit unlikely), but a completely new, and apparently enormous, field. It’s also not really related to cryptography in any particular way (as far as I can see), so there’s no synthesis between the development of the one and the other.

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