Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ilugd] Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan <[email protected]>wrote:

> I think you need to read about what is popularly known as "Texas
> Sharpshooter Fallacy". :-)
>
> Binand
>
> On 12 May 2013 04:39, Ashwin Dixit <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Supreet Sethi <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> > ...
> >
> >> Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
> >>
> >
> >
> > Thank you Supreet, for inspiring me to investigate the identity of
> Satoshi
> > Nakamoto.
> > I think I have guessed the true identity:
> >
> http://ownlifeful.blogspot.com/2013/05/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto.html
> >
>


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
This kind of cognitive blind-spot occurs when we ignore a huge set of data
and focus on a small subset of data.
Yet, we know so little about the Satoshi Nakamoto identity.
I have tried to account for all that we do know, however fallibly.

Some readers have brought to my attention, two other data points which I
did not know about.
1. Bitcoin was written in C++. Shinichi Mochizuki knows C++
2. Mochizuki wrote papers on elliptic curves, the basis of modern
cryptography.

The mystery deepens! ;-)
I invite everyone to join me on Twitter ( @purrperl ) to discuss this.

Cheers,

- Ashwin.

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