Ben Laurie

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Event January 26, 2015 Added October 15, 2026 Updated October 15, 2026 Mailing List

[Cryptography] 2008 revision of Bitcoin whitepaper

Ben Laurie answers Richard Outerbridge: the conclusion is not that confidentiality and anonymity are undecidable, but that there is no good anonymity mechanism for HTTP transactions.

Event January 30, 2009 Added October 3, 2026 Updated October 3, 2026 Mailing List 2 messages

Proof of Work -> atmospheric carbon

Ben Laurie ↔ John Gilmore, Satoshi Nakamoto, Hal Finney

Ben Laurie answers Gilmore with a pointer to the paper in which he and Richard Clayton claim that proof of work doesn't work.