I Think I Know Who Satoshi Is
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as the source of Nelson's claim about Satoshi's identity, mostly as an amusing curiosity.
What it is
A 13-minute video in which Ted Nelson lays out his theory about who created Bitcoin, proposing that Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym for mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki.
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What Hacker News said
Cites lucb1e · 2013-05 · on “I know who 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is, says Ted Nelson”
The video: [this video] If he had wanted to speak to the man directly, he could have cryptographically done so. Tell the world that you know who he is, but not reveal the name, then publish a cryptographic hash of his name. That probably catches the real guy's attention (regardless of whether Ted got it right or not).
Cites networked · 2013-05 · on “Ted Nelson's Computer Paradigm Expressed as One-Liners (1999)”
Ted Nelson is very quotable and I would highly recommend reading at least the freely available excerpt [1] from his seminal 1974 book Computer Lib / Dream Machines to anyone who frequents HN. For those who don't know, his most famous invention is the term "hypertext" and he also appears to have invented, though is lest often acknowledged for, the history stack with its accompanying "back" button in Web browsers. Nelson's writings have a different sensibility from the mainstream of both his fellow computing pioneers of the 1970s and the hackers of today. An example of his thinking from before even UNIX was a household name is that Nelson decried hierarchy as a form of organization for data (e
Cites oscilloscope · 2013-08 · on “Ted Nelson”
Ted Nelson created a YouTube series, Computers for Cynics, which is his history of modern computing technology. [LINK] In one amusing video, he proposes that Satoshi Nakomoto, the creator of Bitcoin, is a pseudonym used by Shinichi Mochizuki, the mathematician who found a proof for the abc conjecture with his inter-universal geometry. [this video] [LINK] [LINK]
Cites davisr · 2015-10 · on “Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof”
Ted Nelson believes that Mochizuki is the real Satoshi behind Bitcoin, because of the way both projects were dumped into the world's lap. I just saw his video last night: [this video]