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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.
He conceived Bit Gold, and three of the four most-cited stylometric studies place him first. The evidence for Nick Szabo as Satoshi, weighed.
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.
Nick Szabo's May 2011 blog post on why digital cash took thirteen years between bit gold (1998) and Bitcoin (2009). Names libtech as the private list where bit gold and b-money developed in parallel.
On his Unenumerated blog, Nick Szabo asks for help implementing bit gold, his 1998 digital currency design. No one responds. Six and a half months later, Satoshi publishes the Bitcoin whitepaper.
In a comment on his Unenumerated blog replying to a reader's criticism of bit gold's tranching design, Nick Szabo asks for help building a demo. No one responds publicly.
Computer scientist, legal scholar, and cryptographer (1964-) who conceived Bit Gold (1998) — the closest conceptual Bitcoin precursor — and coined the term smart contracts.