[abriosi]

Satoshi regularly took two spaces after a period. He uses vocabulary tied to British

There is a famous British cryptographer called Adam Back, who is also the inventor of the proof of work method laid out on the paper “hashcash”. He also leaves two spaces after a period (or used too)

I don’t think it really matters who created it. If you read the political story of bitcoin things look a lot clearer.

“The Blocksize War: The Battle Over Who Controls Bitcoin's Protocol Rules” is a good entry point

[adrianmonk]

> Satoshi regularly took two spaces after a period.

So did I, for a long time, because I was taught that way in typing class. And so were millions of other people. It's how it was usually done on typewriters. It supposedly made the text easier to read.

It has fallen out of fashion now. I eventually switched to one space once I realized things were going that direction. I'm not sure if I had switched by 2009.

So I think this just tells you that Satoshi is probably old enough to have been taught the old rule.

[hn_throwaway_99]

I will say, I did enjoy reading abriosi's assumption, though. As I get older I get more aware of the things I just "took for granted" that everyone knows (because nearly everyone in my generation does know it) are really just generation-specific.

Like when I learned most kids can't read cursive anymore. Or that, for a long time, my use of "emoji noses", :-), really dated me (and I still think it looks better with a nose than without!) So I admit I had a similar chuckle with the idea that putting two spaces after a period was a unique characteristic! Even well into the PC era, 2 spaces was the norm before proportional fonts became widespread. And I still had a heck of a time moving to a single space because it just looked so weird to me.

[freeAgent]

Adam Back is far too jealous of Satoshi inventing Bitcoin. He put, “Bitcoin is HashCash extended with inflation control” in his Twitter profile for years after he got into Bitcoin after initially dismissing it when contacted by Satoshi. Back definitely isn’t Satoshi.

[whiterknight]

And too greedy. Why would he be doing this weird startups and marketing schemes if he already had all the money?

[freeAgent]

Yeah, there are many, many reasons why Back is not and cannot be Satoshi. These emails also provide more evidence that Satoshi was what would later be called a “Big Blocker” in favor of on-chain scaling and minimal tx fees set by nodes independently (though likely converging). Back is famously a Small Blocker who employed all the major Small Blocker devs with Blockstream, which ended up effectively controlling Bitcoin Core. Thankfully, we still have Bitcoin Cash following Satoshi’s intended path for scaling.

[voldacar]

Even if this is correct (which it probably is) it doesn't matter because bch is worthless because it doesn't have the name bitcoin. Whoever controls bitcoin core controls the meaning of the word "bitcoin" so if the bch people never find a way to wrest back control from the blockstream people then this whole thing is just irrelevant. History is written by the victors, etc

[freeAgent]

That perspective is valid, but it’s not mine. BCH is bigger than Bitcoin circa Satoshi’s days already. I’m honestly not too concerned about it. The Bitcoin that I became interested in still exists. It just isn’t called BTC/“Bitcoin” anymore.

[shp0ngle]

Also Bitcoin SV (SV for Satoshi's Vision).

And Bitcoin ABC.

There are so many to chose from.

[freeAgent]

There are, but SV and ABC (now called eCash/XEC) also made departures from Bitcoin that I feel are pretty significant:

BSV: completely removed any concept of a tx spam cap and encouraged use of its blockchain for random data storage. Neither of these are things Satoshi supported. Its spiritual leader is also a charlatan.

XEC: changed both the mining algorithm and added in a "dev tax" on block rewards. The dev tax in particular is something I don't imagine Satoshi would have supported, or he would have added it himself from the start.

But to each their own.

[pcthrowaway]

Bitcoin SV is the Craig Wright-backed crypto that is pretty different from Bitcoin, and is only "following Satoshi's intended path" if you actually believe that hack is Satoshi

[RunSet]

May the longest chain win.

[rl3]

The perfect ruse. /s

[swamp40]

Two spaces after a period just means you learned on a typewriter. I still do it.

[silisili]

I learned on a PC, and we were taught that way initially also. I still think it makes sentences easier to read, so still do it. Though usually on mobile it's .nn because that's where my thumb always wants to land.

[swamp40]

Hah, HN shrunk it down to one space.

[Dove]

Actually, the browser did. Your double space is still there in the page source. :)

(I still do it, too, and mine is also there.)

[asciii]

I think you're spot on.

Plus, the use of "colour" (with u) and reference to something as "rather Neanderthal"

[lawn]

Adam Back, who when asked how to scale Bitcoin while waiting for LN answered that we should let a "local technology expert" setup a tab.

Just, no.