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by more_corn 452 days ago
Wait so the author thinks that the famously anonymous inventor of the famously anonymous cryptocurrency failed to take writing style into account when covering his tracks? It is about the only viable way of tracking Santoshi down. Imagining he wouldn’t think of it is arrogant and stupid. I thought of it in five minutes when first considering the problem and I’m nowhere near as smart as that fucker. It would take like twenty lines of python to obfuscate one’s writing style. The greatest thing about it being so easy is that one could write the script multiple times and generate multiple obfuscatory fingerprints which an outsider would see as one fingerprint. To say nothing of deliberate efforts to obfuscate one’s voice. Good luck with that.