Quote from: Yakamoto on August 26, 2017, 04:28:29 PM

Quote from: Dudeperfect on August 26, 2017, 04:11:35 PM

I am not sure this is an authentic way of finding someone or not but I found this interesting.

"By taking Satoshis texts and finding the 50 most common words, the NSA was able to break down his text into 5,000-word chunks and analyse each to find the frequency of those 50 words."

* How the NSA caught Satoshi Nakamoto.

I am very sceptical about this kind of research/investigation. What's your take on this? Do you think we can find out real Satoshi with such method?

I don't think that using his texts is the best way to try and find out what the most common words he will use in a paper will be, but this is an extremely effective method for finding out who wrote something, if you have more texts of similar lengths to go off of. This would also need phrases, grammar and other indicators, however. Most common words it's the most effective indicator when used alone.

If someone had enough time to sit down and look at all of my posts on here with the name removed, compared against every other post, they could probably be accurate in naming me >50% of the time.

I also don't think that it is possible to find out the real Satoshi by using this method. There is a possibility that hey have picked some words and their whole investigation is based on incorrect data. I am not sure, how accurate it could be ?