goldmonkey21
Candidate
Thanks for your comment. I would be very interested in analysing Musk's texts.
My current findings are that Gavin has the closest style to over 600 BitcoinTalk forum posts. The importance of this is that the texts are controlled for genre.
My biggest finding thus far is that both Gavin and Satoshi used the term "higher priority things" which is a very rare phrase even on Google today.
Future work would benefit from being able to classify texts when there are no suitable candidate texts available.
All the best.
On May 24th 2007 Gavin Andresen speculated on creating a new currency to filter spam emails: https://gavintech.blogspot.com/2007/05/tragedy-of-email-commons.html
Both Gavin and Satoshi used the odd phrases "back-of-the-envelope" and "higher priority things" before supposedly meeting.
It is possible, but it's a lot of work, and there are a lot of other higher priority things to work on. (Satoshi) I still plan on writing up why I disagree with the idea that a larger block size will lead to centralization, but I'm working on some higher priority things first. (Gavin)
So I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation to see how much sprawl it might cause, worst case. Take the 10,000 or so households in Amherst, count each as a "dwelling unit", multiple by 1,000 square feet, and you get: about 230 acres. Which is just a little over 1% of the total acreage in Amherst. (Gavin) My back-of-the-envelope projection: 42032 blocks/2016 = 20.85 = 85% of the way. About 1.5 days to go until the next one. That'll only be about 10 days since the last one, the target is 14 days, so 14/10 = 1.4 = around 40% difficulty increase. (Satoshi)
I analysed profiles on BitcoinTalkForum between IDs 1-2000 and found that Gavin was the closest to Satoshi in writing style, using faststylometry package and 300 recommended attributes. [[0.16304531949753703, '224GavinAndresen'], [0.16819089987038993, '2436Hal'], [0.17117725119873753, '237lachesis'], [0.18689911496747535, '1171btchris'], [0.18902020407080056, '392ribuck'], [0.1905760032509449, '601nelisky'], [0.191341605504933, '143laszlo'], [0.19470326629850976, '277jago2598'], [0.19787557885928606, '1931genjix'], ... ... ]
And on top of all that, Gavin also has a 'Satoshi outfit' which he wears for a comical standup while saying he is Satoshi. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/05/16/marc-andreessen-satoshi-nakamoto-take-top-honors-at-inaugural-blockchain-awards/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTSyATBqThU
Here's a great quote for you:
"I am Satoshi Nakamoto" (Gavin Andresen, Bitcoin2014 BlockChain Awards).
Baam!