Nick Szabo

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Nicholas Szabo
Residence United States
Nationality United States
Fields law, digital currencies
Alma mater
Website
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/, http://szabo.best.vwh.net/

Nick Szabo is a computer scientist, writer, and former law school professor at George Washington University. He is known for his research in digital contracts and digital currency.

Between about 1998[1] and 2005 Szabo developed a mechanism for a decentralized digital currency that he called "bit gold",[2] which some have called a 'direct precursor to the Bitcoin architecture'.[3] It has been suggested that he is the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.[4][5][6]

The phrase "smart contracts"[7] was coined by Szabo, probably around 1993, to emphasize the goal of bringing what he calls the "highly evolved" practices of contract law and related business practices to the design of electronic commerce protocols between strangers on the Internet.

Szabo influentially[8][9][10] argued that a minimum granularity of micropayments is set by mental transaction costs.[11][12]

In 1995, he proposed a challenge to build a macroscale replicator from Lego(tm) robot kits and similar basic parts.[13]

References

  1. ↑ Dai, W (1998). "b-money". Retrieved 5 December 2013. 
  2. ↑ Szabo, Nick. "Bit Gold". Unenumerated. Blogspot. Retrieved 5 December 2013. 
  3. ↑ "Satoshi Nakamoto is (probably) Nick Szabo". LikeInAMirror. WordPress. Retrieved 5 December 2013. 
  4. ↑ https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/
  5. ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/05/who-is-the-real-satoshi-nakamoto-one-researcher-may-have-found-the-answer/
  6. ↑ http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/527078/20131203/satoshi-nakamoto-nick-szabo-bitcoin-creator-revealed.htm
  7. ↑ http://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/548/469
  8. ↑ Anderson, Chris. Free: The Future of a Radical Price. ISBN 1401394515. Retrieved 10 December 2013. 
  9. ↑ Shirky, Clay. "Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content". Retrieved 10 December 2013. 
  10. ↑ McCloud, Scott. "Misunderstanding Micropayments". Retrieved 10 December 2013. 
  11. ↑ Szabo, Nick. "Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs". Retrieved 10 December 2013. 
  12. ↑ Szabo, Nick. "The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments". Retrieved 10 December 2013. 
  13. ↑ Szabo, Nick. "Macroscale Replicator". Archived from the original on 2006-03-07. Retrieved 2007-03-07. 
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