Research conducted by Adi Shamir, one of the pioneers of the RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography which forms the basis of online security today indicates that bitcoin markets indicated that all the large bitcoin transactions over the past few years seem to have the same originating source, related to a single large transaction that took place in November 2010.

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Next steps: securing a patent on the sizing algorithm--before the big retailers do it themselves--and hiring a market research team to get the 10, 000 or so survey responses needed to build a size database big enough to convert all those crazy sizes.

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The technology, which included an algorithm for deriving the summaries, was created with help from SRI International, a Silicon Valley research-and development firm that has an artificial-intelligence lab and has an ownership stake in the startup.

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