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A. LisdorfStill Searching for Satoshihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9639-4_5

5. Searching for Satoshi

Anders Lisdorf1  
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Lisdorf Consulting, København SV, Denmark
 

In modern times the identity of few people has been the object of more significant inquiry and mystery than the inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. That was, however, not in the cards when the Bitcoin whitepaper was published in October 2008. The publication was announced on the cryptography mailing list to initial critical comments by only four contributors after fizzling out within a month. By December 2008, exactly no one talked about Bitcoin, and the notion that more than a decade later ...

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