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...The Problem That Made The New Alleged Bitcoin Inventor A Mathematical Rock Star
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Walter Hickey
See, while the digital currency has moved markets and attracted major investors, nobody actually knows who came up with it.
The paper describing the system was published under a pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto, and people are clamoring to find out who the genius behind the Bitcoin system actually is.
And while there is a mountain of compelling evidence demonstrating that Mochizuki probably isn't Nakamoto, this is still an excellent opportunity to revisit why people are obsessed with the Japanese mathematician — namely, his rock-star status achieved after publishing a bold proof of one of the thorniest problems in Diophantine analysis: the abc conjecture.