Is the noose tightening on the identity of the creator of Bitcoin? Tesla boss Elon Musk has his own thoughts on the matter. According to him, cryptocurrency expert Nick Szabo is the now famous Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, announces the Business Insider site. In any case, this is what the American billionaire insinuated during an interview with the researcher in artificial intelligence, Lex Fridman, in a podcast published on Tuesday, December 28. “You can watch the development of ideas before the Bitcoin launch and see who wrote about those ideas,” he said.
If he does not “obviously” know who is at the origin of Bitcoin, Elon Musk believes that Nick Szabo’s theories reveal a fundamental importance in the creation of the main cryptocurrency. “It seems that Nick Szabo is probably, more than anyone, responsible for the evolution of these ideas. He seems to be more than anyone who is responsible for the ideas behind Bitcoin”, analyzes the billionaire.
Similarities Between Szabo’s Writings and the Bitcoin White Paper
We have to go back to 2008 to see, for the first time, the trace of Bitcoin. This cryptocurrency is then offered by a certain Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym which, according to public opinion, could be one or more people.
In 2014, a team of linguistics researchers took an interest in Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper and compared the book with the writings of Nick Szabo and 10 other possible creators. And the finding is clear. “The number of linguistic similarities between Szabo’s writing and the Bitcoin white paper is troubling,” they said, adding that “none of the other possible authors matched up so well.”
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In 2015, the New York Times also looked into the issue and also attributed the invention of Bitcoin to Nick Szabo. On several occasions, he has spoken publicly about the history of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, each time denying being its inventor. Another clue: in 1998, he created another cryptocurrency called “bit gold”.
Elon Musk has indicated that he cares very little about ever knowing the identity of the creator of Bitcoin. “What’s a name anyway? It’s a name attached to an idea. What does that mean, really?” He said, before quoting William Shakespeare: “This which we call rose, under another name, would smell just as good. “