So, the true identity of mysterious creator of bitcoin - the man behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto is revealed - (in Monday's Newsweek - somehow missed that - news takes a while to reach us in Luxembourg). His true identity... Satoshi Nakamoto - which proves the validity of the old wisdom about hiding things in plain view. Now we know who he is, the world can congratulate him for a truly great world-changing invention.
I was planning to do some work on crunching the bitcoin ID dataset some more but it never happened. I did get the blockchain cruncher to build and run but it seems to throw a bad_alloc exception. I'm guessing it needs a 64 bit platform. I need to take a look at what he's done... It shouldn't need to fit the whole blockchain in memory to process it, surely!! Shouldn't it be just a sequential read-through?
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