[kevmoo1]

Read the authors:

S. Nakamoto, BitCoin

Huh?

[CydeWeys]

Satoshi Nakamoto came up with the Base58 encoding in the original Bitcoin whitepaper. It's fair to credit him in some manner even if he didn't have any direct involvement in this most recent standards doc.

[wcoenen]

> Satoshi Nakamoto came up with the Base58 encoding in the original Bitcoin whitepaper

There is no mention of Base58 in the whitepaper. http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[CydeWeys]

Sorry, it was in the code repo when he released Bitcoin.

[hda111]

I would doubt that he wrote this article. There was no public appearance of him in the last ten years.

[CydeWeys]

"It's fair to credit him in some manner even if he didn't have any direct involvement in this most recent standards doc."

[based2]

https://www.monperrus.net/martin/perfect-ocr-digital-data

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi...

[abricot]

I wonder if there is any verification

[rini17]

He is assumed to have mined many coins back in the beginning and he can verify himself by spending them.

[lozf]

It's not necessary to spend to verify, the Bitcoin protocol allows a signed message to demonstrate ownership of the private key for an address.

[znpy]

They are unlikely to do so since those coins are massively looked upon and they're very careful about not disclosing their identity.