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In a comment on his Unenumerated blog, Nick Szabo asks for help building a demo of bit gold, his 1998 digital currency design. No one publicly responds.
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.
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.
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 his Unenumerated blog, Nick Szabo asks for help implementing bit gold — his 1998 digital currency design. No one publicly responds. Six months later, Satoshi publishes the Bitcoin whitepaper.
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.