Hey all! Been a while since we've posted, but we're launching a newsletter called Sat Slices, and this is our first installment. Excited to share this with you all and looking forward to any/all feedback. Thanks!

For this first installment of Sat Slices, we ventured deep into the archives of the Bitcoin Talk forum, frequented by Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2010. What we found was unexpected: a fascinating little snippet––no more than a few paragraphs long––written in 2012 by a renowned mathematician named Terence Tao.

Wikipedia: "Tao has been the author or co-author of over three hundred research papers. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians and has been referred to as the "Mozart of mathematics."

Terence Tao wrote in 2012 that online anonymity is fragile enough to be compromised once 31 bits of information are revealed about a person's identity. We help explain how Tao arrived at this number using Shannon's entropy. We also discuss some of the implications of disinformation for preserving anonymity. Finally, we update the calculations for 2023, more than a decade after Tao's original post.

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