[Cialug] Nakamoto: Double Spacer

David Champion dchamp1337 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 11:51:54 CST 2014


Double spacing after a period is "an old guy thing". For old guys that
learned to type on a typewriter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing

-dc


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> So apparently they found Bitcoin's inventor.  The mysterious developer
> calling himself Satoshi Nakamoto is actually named... Satoshi Nakamoto.
>
> And he's an old guy.  You can tell because he double spaces after periods?
> Is that an old guy thing?
>
> That's what it says in this article:
> http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html
>
> There's a very interesting (to me) part of the article about, uh, I guess
> you'd call it signature analysis or something.  They inferred facts about
> the guy from the way he wrote code and emails.  Reverse Polish notation,
> double spacing, messiness, etc.
>
> It's a good article.  I imagine Wired is eating their heart out on not
> getting this scoop.
>
> --
> Todd
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