THELOGICALINDIAN - Satoshi Nakamoto the architect of Bitcoin has consistently been a abstruse appearance and a abundant cardinal of sleuths accept fabricated it their mission to ascertain the inventors character One accurate approach was appear this ages which attempts to binding the able-bodied accepted and now asleep Len Sassaman to the conception of the aboriginal cryptocurrency Moreover coincidently two months afore Sassaman anesthetized abroad Satoshi Nakamoto larboard the association adage Ive confused on to added things and apparently wont be about in the future
Len Sassaman, Anonymous Remailers, and Bitcoin’s Creator
During the aftermost decade, abounding detectives and journalists accept approved to bare the abstruse abaft Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity. News.Bitcoin.com has appear a absolute of 11 accessories angry to our “Many Facts” Satoshi series.
The aftermost three “Many Facts” Satoshi alternation suspects were Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov, the acclaimed American economist and mathematician John Nash, and the 48-year old above programmer and bent bunch boss, Paul Le Roux. On February 21, 2021, a biographer called Leung appear a comprehensive study that looks at the achievability of Len Sassaman actuality Satoshi.
Len Sassaman (1980–2011) was one of the aboriginal cypherpunks and an apostle for aloofness during his life. His wife told the accessible that he committed suicide on July 3, 2011, and that year, Black Hat Briefings appear that a accolade to Sassaman was anchored into the BTC blockchain. The columnist Leung, who afresh appear affirmation that may tie Satoshi and Sassaman together, explains how the obituary is absorbed to the BTC network.
“Embedded on every distinct bulge of the Bitcoin arrangement is an obituary,” Leung wrote. “Hacked into the transaction data, it’s a canonizing to Len Sassaman, a man about immortalized in the blockchain itself. A applicable accolade in added means than one.”
Leung’s aboriginal allotment of amplified affirmation is the actuality that Satoshi Nakamoto abdicate the Bitcoin project, and larboard the association two months afore Sassaman anesthetized away. Leung additionally said that he was afraid to brainstorm on Satoshi’s identity, but Craig Wright’s claims fabricated him accept the character accountable is important.
“With Craig Wright fraudulently claiming acclaim and invoking a absorb affirmation to booty bottomward the Bitcoin whitepaper,” Leung wrote. “It’s important we revisit the affair and recenter the altercation about the cypherpunks who absolutely congenital Bitcoin.”
Sassaman Had the Expertise to Create Bitcoin
The abstraction says that by the time Sassaman was 22, he already had the cryptography ability to body the actual foundations of bitcoin. “Len acclaimed himself as an ascendancy in public-key cryptography,” Leung’s address highlights. Another absorbing actuality about Sassaman was that he formed with the accepted Satoshi-suspect and now asleep Hal Finney.
Essentially, Leung said that Sassaman and Finney had one able commonality which included developing bearding remailer technology. Sassaman was the advance maintainer of Mixmaster bearding remailer cipher and the Randseed remailer.
Basically, an bearding remailer is agnate to a Bitcoin node, as it accepts letters and instructions on how to accept, store, and accelerate them after absolute the alpha point. The Bitcoin blockchain, however, processes these accomplishments in a pseudo-anonymous fashion, authoritative a BTC user as cellophane or as bearding as they desire.
“While aboriginal remailers artlessly forwarded advice while stripping abroad a sender’s identity,” Leung writes. “Protocols like Mixmaster (the best accepted remailer) relied on decentralized nodes to administer fixed-sized blocks of encrypted advice beyond a P2P network,” Leung said.
The columnist added:
Leung additionally shows affirmation of Len Sassaman accommodating with the Blockstream CEO, Adam Back, back he listed him as a contributor to a research paper and in a Mixmaster memo. Adam Back has additionally been a suspect in the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery, back the accepted Youtube approach “Barely Social” appear a video alleged “Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto,” on May 11, 2020. Leung’s address notes, at one time Adam Back “suggested that Satoshi ability accept been a remailer developer.”
“Unlike abounding cypherpunks discussed, we apperceive that Len fabricated all-encompassing bearding contributions to the cypherpunk commitment account via remailers,” Leung insisted.
Was Satoshi Nakamoto Possibly an American Academic Who Wrote in British English?
The abstraction appear on February 21, additionally capacity how Sassaman became a researcher and Ph.D. applicant at Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography Research Group (COSIC). Leung addendum that “Len’s Ph.D. adviser at COSIC was none added than ‘father of agenda currency’ David Chaum.”
Leung additionally mentions Sassaman’s accord with the Bittorrent architect Bram Cohen. Sassaman additionally formed with Cohen on a activity alleged Pynchon Gate and they both helped advance an anniversary tech appointment alleged Codecon.
Meanwhile, during the aeon BTC was actuality developed and kick-started (2008-2010), Leung’s address addendum that a few bodies accept affected that Satoshi Nakamoto was an bookish like Sassaman was during those years. “I anticipate he’s an academic, maybe a post-doc, maybe a assistant who aloof doesn’t appetite the attention,” the aboriginal Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen said at one time.
“Satoshi’s code contributions and comments ramped up heavily during summer and winter break,” Leung emphasized. “But cone-shaped off in backward bounce and the end of year, back an bookish would accept been demography and/or allocation finals.”
Moreover, because Sassaman was amid in Belgium during Bitcoin’s development, it additionally coincides with the assessment that Satoshi was in Europe developing Bitcoin. Recent studies suggest Satoshi was creating the activity in London.
“Strangely enough, Len acclimated the actual aforementioned British English as Satoshi alike admitting he was American,” Leung detailed. “Since COSIC was based in Leuven, Len was active in Belgium during Bitcoin’s development. This is arresting accustomed that a cardinal of facts advance that Satoshi was based in Europe,” the abstraction explained.
Wiki Editors Add Satoshi Candidate Theory to Len Sassaman’s Wikipedia Biography Page
Leung’s report, like the countless of added suspects and investigations, lacks a smoker gun or absolute adamantine affirmation that could advance bodies to analyze Len Sassaman as Nakamoto. Moreover, abundant like Hal Finney, Sassaman is no best with us, which makes it difficult to brainstorm on whether or not he could be Bitcoin’s inventor.
However, Wikipedia editors assume to anticipate it is abundant to accommodate on Len Sassaman’s Wikipedia page. The third book on Sassaman’s Wikipedia biography says “He is advised as a able Satoshi Nakamoto candidate.” There is additionally a citation noted abutting to the Wikipedia editor’s book and it leads to Leung’s study.
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