Nakamoto's Neighbor: Hunt for Bitcoin's Creator Led to a Paralyzed Crypto Genius

[Bluestein]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/25/satoshi-nakamotos-neighbor-the-bitcoin-ghostwriter-who-wasnt/

[ur-whale]

It's pretty amazing to see what came out of the cypherpunk movement of the 90's and how much it has grown.

And we're not just talking cryptocurrencies.

The archive of the mailing list is a must read:

https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/

[Bluestein → ur-whale]

That mailing list is - indeed - gold :)

Thanks for bringing it up ...

Also, the slow(er), ranty sometimes nature of discourse in mailing lists ...

... one misses that sometimes.

Usenet, little did you know what "online" would turn into ...

[Bluestein]

"Hal Finney's light brown eyes are pointed down.

I've just asked him if he was involved in the creation of Bitcoin. The 57-year-old man's almost imperceptible eye movement is his only way of telling me that he was not, and that I've spent the last week caught in the same futile windmill-tilting that has ensnared so many other reporters trying to solve the puzzle of Bitcoin's mysterious creator known only as Satoshi Nakamoto."