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Nick Szabo graduated from the University of Washington in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in computer science and later received a Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University Law School.
Nick Szabo wrote an introduction to the phrase smart property in 1994 to bring contract law practices to electronic commerce protocols.
In Nick Szabo's bit gold structure, participants dedicate computer power to solving cryptographic problems that are sent to a Byzantine fault-tolerant public registry and assigned to the solver's public key.
Nick Szabo has repeatedly denied being Satoshi Nakamoto and stated in a July 2014 email to Dominic Frisby that he was afraid the author got it wrong doxing him as Satoshi.
Nick Szabo designed bit gold to mimic the security and trust characteristics of physical gold within cyberspace without depending on a trusted central authority like banks or governments.