Nick Szabo
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Nicholas Szabo is a computer
Career
Szabo graduated from the University of Washington in 1989 with a degree in computer science[2] and received a Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University Law School.[3] He holds an honorary professorship at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín.[4]
Payments and digital currency
The phrase and concept of "smart property" was developed by Szabo with the goal of bringing what he calls the "highly evolved" practices of contract law and practice to the design of
Szabo argued that a minimum granularity of
In 1998, Szabo designed a mechanism for a decentralized digital currency he called "bit gold".
In Szabo's bit gold structure, a participant would dedicate computer power to solving cryptographic problems. In a bit gold network, solved problems would be sent to the
Although Szabo has repeatedly denied it, people have speculated that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.[14] Research by financial author Dominic Frisby provided circumstantial evidence but, as he admits, no proof exists that Satoshi is Szabo.[15] In a July 2014 email to Frisby, Szabo said "I'm afraid you got it wrong doxing me as Satoshi, but I'm used to it."[16] Nathaniel Popper wrote in The New York Times that "the most convincing evidence pointed to a reclusive American man of Hungarian descent named Nick Szabo." In 2008, prior to the release of bitcoin, Szabo wrote a comment on his blog about the intent of creating a live version of his hypothetical currency.[2]
References
- ^ Ridley, Matt (4 December 2017). "The Bitcoin revolution is only just beginning". The Times. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
the legal scholar and computer scientist Nick Szabo
- ^ a b Popper, Nathaniel (15 May 2015). "Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ Szabo, Nick (26 May 2009). "Unenumerated, "Sotomayor, Calabresi, and the Chief Justice at our moot court"". Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ "Portada 2021".
- S2CID 33773111. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
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- ^ Szabo, Nick. "The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments". Archived from the original on 12 January 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "Everybody Freeze! | Corey Pein". 8 March 2016.
- ^ a b Peck, Morgan (30 May 2012). "Bitcoin: The Cryptoanarchists' Answer to Cash". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ Szabo, Nick (December 2005). "Bit gold". Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- The Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ Tschorsch, Florian; Scheuermann, Björn (15 May 2015). "Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey of Decentralized Digital Currencies" (PDF). Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ Szabo, Nick (1998). "Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority". Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "Who Is The Real Satoshi Nakamoto? One Researcher May Have Found The Answer". TechCrunch. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ISBN 1783520779
- ^ Frisby, Dominic (2014), p. 147