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by mouzogu 871 days ago
the white paper was written in British English with a very specific style afaik.

which makes me lean towards Adam Back or Paul Le Roux.

personally I like to think it was Le Roux, which would be insane if true.

https://news.bitcoin.com/the-many-facts-pointing-to-paul-le-...

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Satoshi was/is a smart man. It's quite possible that he anticipated stylometry and deliberately wrote in a deceptive dialect. Though I've also seen some forensic linguists say they can often see through that unless it's done very well, with the tells being overuse of stereotypical features of the dialect combined with a lack of more subtle indicators like what modal verbs are used, for example. Also I admit this line of "he did that on purpose" reasoning makes anything unfalsifiable when taken to the extreme
> "he did that on purpose"

maybe. he was really trying to hide is identity.

i guess its an occams razor type of thing.

he did also encode the headline from the front page of a British newspaper in the first transaction i believe.

https://monnos.com/en/blog/genesis-block-chancellor-on-brink...

Adam Back certainly fits the profile the best. Invented Hashcash, has a Ph.D. in Distributed Systems, and is English. He's also still deeply involved with Bitcoin and has a lot of influence, which best can be seen when he successfully proposed the "speedy-trial" activation method for Taproot.
That and Bitcoin was initially a Windows programmer, unlike Hal.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26340430

or Len Sassaman?