Odaily Frontline | Cardano founder: I know how to find Satoshi Nakamoto
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The speculation about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto has never stopped, although there are different opinions, it is difficult to reach a conclusion. Recently, Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano and CEO of IOHK, accepted an exclusive interview with U.Today, during which he talked about a method that "at least sounds relatively scientific", which may reveal the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.
The method proposed by Charles originated from "Stylometry"-that is, by studying personal writing habits, analyzing personal writing characteristics, and then determining the author's identity. As a digression, in the "plagiarism gate" debate between Fang Zhouzi and Han Han, stylistic analysis was widely used. On this basis, Charles also mentioned a new term - "Code Stylistics (Code Stylometry)", which is very simple to understand, which is to judge the identity of the writer by analyzing the characteristics of the code.
In view of the fact that the earliest Bitcoin codes were all written by Satoshi Nakamoto himself, through the above method, the early Bitcoin codes can be compared with the codes in all open source projects, and there is a high probability that we can find out the meaning of "code stylistics". Other project codes written by the same person, and then tracking these found projects may eventually lead to the real body of Satoshi Nakamoto.
Charles also mentioned that there are several ways to narrow your search.
Judging by the technical characteristics, Satoshi Nakamoto is likely to be in his fifties or sixties, and he was educated in the late 1980s or early 1990s.
Satoshi Nakamoto is more likely to be an academic than a professional engineer, because the code is "too academic", and professional engineers may be more concise in this regard.
“The main point is that Bitcoin was written in a less common programming language (Forth) that was mostly used for computer science teaching during that time, especially in the UK and Eastern US. Single With this clue, we can determine with greater confidence where Satoshi Nakamoto was educated."
Although Charles proposed the above method, he stated that he was not interested in finding Satoshi Nakamoto himself.
“I’ve never done it (find Satoshi Nakamoto), but I know that some people have done it, and based on the facts and circumstances, they may have some knowledge of who Satoshi Nakamoto is. But I have no interest in it , frankly, that person has left the ecosystem and doesn't want to be bothered. Bitcoin has been working fine since 2012, eight years now, and we have had no problems. Why do we have to have the founders back? "
“The reason why some people call themselves Satoshi Nakamoto, or claim to know the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, is just to get a special kind of prestige—as if you are the Pope, speaking for God—and then these people This prestige can be used in turn to attract people to its product, just like BSV.”
Charles also stated: "While we admire Satoshi Nakamoto and recognize his brilliance, from a scientific and technological point of view, we must realize that the cryptocurrency field as a whole has achieved great development. We also need to understand that, Satoshi was just one person or group of people, and the crypto industry has millions of people. The bottom line is that no one person is more special than the other.”
“We are all equal, we all share the same vision. So at this stage, bringing Satoshi Nakamoto back to this field is only counterproductive, because it will only lead to the majority of people being concentrated around one person.”
Charles emphasized that the most important thing is not to find Satoshi Nakamoto, but to empower everyone on the edge of the ecology.
"What I respect the most is not Satoshi Nakamoto's technology, but he knows when to leave, when to retire, when to give up his invention, let it develop freely, and naturally achieve decentralization."
