Mostly by famous crypto-anarchist and cypherpunk legend Timothy C. May:
Facts #
- Fact 1: Timothy May mentioned zero-knowledge proofs in The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto.
- Fact 2: Timothy May read The Manifesto in public at the first meeting of the Cypherpunk group in 1992.
- Fact 3: Timothy May said in a 2014 interview that he "believes that one or more people at that meeting invented Bitcoin."
Corollaries #
- Corollary 1: Satoshi Nakamoto knew about zero-knowledge proofs.
- Corollary 2: Zero-knowledge proof is one of the original exploration directions of the cypherpunk movement, and it is not surprise to be integrated into the most famous incubation product of this movement - i.e. blockchain.