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RE: A Special Conjecture “Unbreakable Encryption”: John Nash's Letter to the NSA
I have no doubt the NSA felt it was "ingenious" and fully intended to implement something like it. They just never wanted it released the entire world to use as they saw fit...or to create independent financial systems either. Thank you Satoshi Nakamoto :)
I don't know that he was Satoshi, and I suspect Satoshi was a group and Szabo was certainly involved. But I can say that Nash foresaw bitcoin, or in other words the advent of a digital gold, and he spent years philosophizing the implication of it in relation to our global financial system. Ideal Money is many many years ahead of its time, and I expect it to become very relevant soon. Thanks!
Excellent read. I think Satoshi doesn't need to be affiliated with anyone really. Reason? He assembled publicly available knowledge from systems that pre-existed. He just refined and merged the designs (public designs).
I agree to an extent although there are also ramifications depending on who was involved. Besides that I think some people miss that really bitcoin is just an experiment that is set for blind peer review like any other properly done presentation of a theory. Its just that the nature of the conjecture is such that the experiment could not be done in a lab (otherwise people would just say, "sure it works in the lab, but governments will just shut it down in real life".