What Satoshi Didn't Know [video] (opens in new tab)

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71 pointsxsb11y ago10 comments

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I converted this talk to mp3 audio to listen to it more conveniently: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cr388hk0uarg90j/DevCore%20Boston%2...

dutchbrit11y ago

Is there a tldr (or in this case tldw)?

xsbOP11y ago

Satoshi Nakamoto is/was the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. He voluntarely disapeared a few years ago. Gavin Andersen is the lead developer of the open source Bitcoin project since then. In this video he talks about the past and the future of the cryptocurrency, and touches some parts of Bitcoin history and his relationship with Satoshi.

jsprogrammer11y ago

But what didn't Satoshi know?

marcell11y ago

From the video:

- That you can compress ECDSA public keys from 64 to 33 bytes

- Compression techniques that can be applied to the bitcoin protocol, such as inverted bloom lookup tables

- SNARKS

- Fully homomorphic encryption

- Various bugs in the initial bitcoin implementation, including one that created ~2 billion BTC

- Whether bitcoin was legal

- Whether it would take off

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