Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.
How the NSA identified Satoshi Nakamoto
The ‘creator’ of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, is the world’s most elusive billionaire (worth more than $7B as of November 2017). Very few…
Australian Craig Wright claims to be Bitcoin creator
Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly identified himself as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Bitcoin, Snapchat, Drugs, And Death: How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies To Her Tragic Killing
Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.
Extropia's Children, Chapter 3: Extropicoin Extrapolated
Many of the 90s cypherpunks were also 90s extropians. That's why the person most closely connected with Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto is ... while certainly no longer alive ... also, some would argue, still not actually dead.
Ian Preston (@ianopolous.bsky.social)
Mathematician/particle physicist turned privacy researcher. Java Rockstar #Oxford Building a better web - private, self-sovereign identity, p2p, social - with @peergos.org. Public social media undermines democracy. #covidisairborne #maskswork #cleantheair
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Widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash, David is currently leading xx network, a completely private, quantum-secure decentralized messaging and payment platform. He is also known for other fundamental innovations in cryptography, including privacy technologies such as mix nets and secure voting systems. With a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, he has [...]Read More... from Home
About Patrick Mineault
I’m an AI researcher and neurotechnologist. I’m a NeuroAI researcher at the Amaranth Foundation. I’m always happy to take on new, manifestly important projects that are nearly imp…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? - Slashdot
"I'm still teaching at Princeton," 83-year-old Brian Kernighan recently told an audience at New Jersey's InfoAge Science and History Museums. And last month the video was uploaded to YouTube, a new article points out, "showing that his talk ended with a unique question-and-answer session that tur...
Cryptocurrencies with Tim Ferriss, Nick Szabo and Naval Ravikant
An incredible deep dive into the world of Bitcoin, Etherium, ICOs and more with an expert, a passionate learner and a novice.
Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything (Ep. 45)
Is he secretly the best young economist today?
Dark Code
A few months ago, a founder I know had a data leak that took his security team four days to understand.
How we got here
Wherein our hero, in this publication's inaugural, dates himself (as if others would) in a reminiscence of computers and websites past.
The Math Superstar Who’s Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI
Jacob Tsimerman won the biggest prize in math. Now he’s working on the most important problem of his career.
Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement?
A former Google engineer and the founder of stealth AI startup Extropic, is behind the Twitter account leading the “effective accelerationism” movement sweeping Silicon Valley.
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
