(RTTNews) – Elon Musk has revealed that he also believes that cryptocurrency expert Nick Szabo may simply be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious author of the virtual currency Bitcoin.
During a podcast with synthetic intelligence researcher Lex Fridman, Musk was asked to guess who Nakamoto might be.
“You can take a look at the evolution of concepts before the introduction of Bitcoin and see who wrote about those concepts,” Musk said.
“It turns out that Nick Szabo is probably, more than anyone else, to blame for the evolution of those concepts,” he said. “He says it’s not Nakamoto, but I’m not sure it’s not here or there. But yes, “it turns out to be more guilty about bitcoin concepts than any other. “
Nick Szabo graduated from the University of Washington in 1989 with a degree in Computer Science and then earned a law degree from George Washington University School of Law.
In 2014, a team of researchers in linguistics studied Nakamoto’s white paper on bitcoin along with the writings of Szabo and 10 other potential creators. The organization concluded that Szabo Nakamoto was based on linguistic similarities.
“The number of linguistic similarities between Szabo’s writing and the bitcoin white paper is strange,” the researchers said, adding that “none of the other authors imaginable were so close to matching. “
However, Szabo has rejected claims that he is the author of Bitcoin. He said in 2014: “I’m afraid you made a mistake by deceiving me as Satoshi, but I’m used to it. “