Satoshi Was British?

Have a look at the following:

What do you see? Well, it has a British spelling of “honour” and uses double space breaks. It seems that Satoshi might not be from the US, and that the usage of British spelling and double spaces could point to one person: Adam Back — the current CEO of Blockstream. Adam has a long track record of innovation in cryptography and cryptocurrency, including creating Hashcash in 1997, and which was finally written-up in 2002 [here]:

He is also a well-known as a cypher punk and even produced the following T-shirt as a protest against export restrictions related to the RSA method:

In fact, Satoshi even mentions Adam in an email from 2008, and one way of reading this is that Adam knew about the similarities, and was hiding behind the Satoshi pseudonym:

And he was referred to in the Bitcoin paper:

In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto, outlined a paper in which he defined a cryptocurrency which could be mined, and where the miners were paid for producing the hash of the current block. He set-out that the currency would eventually run out, so he defined that the mining reward would half a given times. He started with a massive reward of 50 BTC, and which recently was set at 6.25 BTC:

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