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37 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cornleone 31 Jul 2022 \ on: Is Satoshi Nakamoto still alive? bitcoin
I think it's a group of people and the 1 million bitcoin will be a gift to humanity
What are the chances that 2 or more people are able to keep their mouth shut? A lot less than one person. Probabilities point to one person using the discoveries of many different people to build the jig saw puzzle that is Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin has been developed for over a decade now by a large group of people.
But if you read the original posts and software releases from around 2009, you can see that it was pretty much a single, very talented, developer. This is not too uncommon in the world of open source.
I mean, if you have a look at the original release of the software, it was just three files, and not a huge amount of code:
Yes, the idea was brilliant, but it was also based on a lot of previous works, as usual in science and technology.
It's perfectly possible for Satoshi to be one person.
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