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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.
The hypothesis that Nick Szabo (Bit Gold creator, "smart contracts" coiner) was Satoshi. Frame: Skye Grey 2013 stylometric article. Counter: Szabo's 2008 Bit Gold help request and self-denials.
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 discusses why Bitcoin took so long, the similarities and differences between bit gold and Bitcoin, and why "nearly everybody who heard the general idea thought it was a very bad idea."
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.