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Is John Nash Satoshi Nakamoto?

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    We expect “Satoshi Nakamoto” is Japenese.
    When you take out “I am Nash” you are left with
    “sato” and “koto”
    Japenese is the key because if you didn’t know the language then you could never match the words to verify the code cracking.
    koto = japan’s national instrument
    sato = the most popular japenese name

    Bitcoin is the “instrument” for the “common man”.

This is worse than the 9/11 "truthers".

Some of it is pretty far out there, but a lot of it makes quite a bit of sense.

Yeah, pretty far into bong hits territory there. But on the meta level I think the article makes a case that Bitcoin might not exist without the mathematical innovations of Nash.

sato also means village, koto means thing, etc.

Any sequence of consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel is quite likely to be a Japanese word.

This is crazy. Both John Nash and Nick Szabo are regular public persons whose non-identicalness has been thoroughly established. You can just enter their names in Google image search and see that they are different persons.

Second, I think it's already been established beyond reasonable doubt that Nick Szabo is Satoshi. There's not really any evidence against that except for his denial, and there's been plenty of evidence for it.

If anybody was capable of solving the Byzantine Generals problem, it would be Nash.

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