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October 21, 2023 Lopp Blog

Jameson Lopp: Hal Finney could not have been Satoshi Nakamoto

Jameson Lopp ↔ Hal Finney, Satoshi Nakamoto, Mike Hearn, Martti Malmi

Jameson Lopp argues Hal Finney could not have been Satoshi: on April 18, 2009, Finney was running a 10-mile race in Santa Barbara during a window of Satoshi network activity.

September 16, 2022 Lopp Blog

Jameson Lopp analyzes whether Satoshi Nakamoto was a 'greedy' miner

Jameson Lopp ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Sergio Demian Lerner

Jameson Lopp shows Satoshi deliberately throttled mining capacity, earning ~1.1M BTC when full capacity could have yielded ~2.19M BTC. Anyone claiming Satoshi was greedy hasn't done the math.