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by didntcheck 871 days ago
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
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> "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...