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9 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
Stefan Thomas was paid 7,002 BTC in 2011 for a Bitcoin explainer video, stored the keys on a 10-attempt IronKey, and lost the password. By the 2021 NYT report, he had 2 of 10 attempts left.
CoinDesk published previously unseen Satoshi-Finney emails (obtained via widow Fran Finney): Finney's November 2008 scalability question and Satoshi's personal v0.1 release notice on January 8, 2009.
On May 15, 2015, the New York Times published Nathaniel Popper's Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto — a Digital Gold excerpt naming Bit Gold designer Nick Szabo as Satoshi. Szabo denied it.
Aston University Centre for Forensic Linguistics released Project Bitcoin (April 2014): a stylometric study under Jack Grieve naming Szabo as the most likely whitepaper author among 11 candidates.
On December 1, 2013, blogger Skye Grey published Satoshi Nakamoto is (probably) Nick Szabo — the first public stylometric study naming Szabo as Satoshi, reported by TechCrunch on December 5.
He conceived Bit Gold, and three of the four most-cited stylometric studies place him first. The evidence for Nick Szabo as Satoshi, weighed.
Satoshi tells Finney that he cannot receive incoming connections from his location, revealing an operational constraint in the earliest days of the Bitcoin network.
Hal Finney's private email to Satoshi during pre-release code review, asking foundational scalability questions: 'How large do you envision it becoming? Tens of nodes? Thousands? Millions?'
Satoshi has been hunted in public for years and left a large trail of material, yet remains unidentified. Why all that searching and all that material have not led to a name.