Showing posts with label Satoshi Nakamoto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Satoshi Nakamoto. Show all posts

Monday, May 2, 2016

BBC — Australian Craig Wright claims to be Bitcoin creator

Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly identified himself as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.…
Mr Wright has provided technical proof to back up his claim using coins known to be owned by Bitcoin's creator.
Prominent members of the Bitcoin community and its core development team say they have confirmed his claims.
Looks legit this time.
At the meeting with the BBC, Mr Wright digitally signed messages using cryptographic keys created during the early days of Bitcoin's development. The keys are inextricably linked to blocks of bitcoins known to have been created or "mined" by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Timothy B. Lee

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Alex Tabarrok — Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated for Nobel Prize

Bhagwan Chowdhry, a professor of finance at UCLA, has nominated Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, for a Nobel prize in economics. It’s an excellent choice. Nakamoto made a fundamental breakthrough that combined cryptography and a distributed database to create the first decentralized cryptocurrency.…
Marginal Revolution
Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated for Nobel Prize
Alex Tabarrok | Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and Professor of Economics at George Mason University

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Rumplestatskin — Everything I was Afraid to Ask about Bitcoin but Did


Bitcoin, transaction cost, reversibility, trust.

Naked Capitalism
Everything I was Afraid to Ask about Bitcoin but Did
Rumplestatskin, a professional economist with a background in property development, environmental economics research and economic regulation.