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		usrusr on Oct 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf] > The other oddity in the code is that there is a mixture of US/UK spellings being used, which also suggests more than one person. Not an oddity are all, it suggests a non-native speaker. US/UK spelling inconsistency is rather common unless you went to school in one of the two.

mortallywounded on Oct 6, 2023 [–]

Or, a person that was born in the US and educated in the UK, big into cryptography and the cipherpunk mailing list and often mixed up spellings on social media.. like I dunno, Len Sassaman.

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