Do you think that google and other main search engines know who searched for "Byzantine" before the bitcoin genesis block?
Would the creator of bitcoin search for: "Byzantine" without using Tor browser and/or VPN?
The Byzantine Generals problem is very old. I assume that there have been millions of searches for the term before 2009.
According to Wikipedia, "The problem of obtaining Byzantine consensus was conceived and formalized by Robert Shostak, who dubbed it the interactive consistency problem. This work was done in 1978..."