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This would make sense because Szabo's initial post about Bit Gold does mention RPOW, so any search for RPOW would immediately lead back to Szabo.

Szabo also appears to have forward-dated his posts talking about implementing Bit Gold so that they appear to be written after BitCoin was released.



It's the worst date faking attempt in history if that was his intention - I think he republished his 2005 story after bitcoin to point out that he came up with these ideas.




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