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Who do you think is the REAL Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin?

Are we really need another thread like that? Use search function, this question was posted many time before and the answer is - we don't know.

exactly Snorek is right it is being posted many times and btw for your kind information satoshi nakamoto is dead some months ago you can also find that in some searches..a great man he was really a genious

you should add "none of the above" or something, because i don't think that he really is among one of those people

Hey Moriarty, aren't you the guy that scammed a bunch of people out of BTC80,000 their Bitcoin?

"Michael Moriarty / Moriartybitcoin
This guy has a lot of sites. Michael Moriarty is certainly an alias. He has stolen at least $80K of Bitcoin. Let us know if he's robbed you as well, we'll forward the evidence. 11/07/14/"

http://www.badbitcoin.org/thebadlist/#M (http://www.badbitcoin.org/thebadlist/#M)

I am Satoshi Nakamoto  ;D
come one mate there are already a lot of threads about guessing who is satoshi but no one know about him
no proofs, the only thing we know about him is Satoshi nakamoto is the person who created bitcoin

Why only a list of these few people who you think it might be? None of the above would be answered if you gave the chance. I do wonder who it is but doubt we will find out for a long time until someone reputable leaks.


Reading his trust the most this thief has managed to get is 127btc! Where on earth did you get the 80,000btc from please? I would like to read up on some proof and hopefully you can show it lol

Does it really matter what anyone thinks?
It is more about what anyone knows.

What I think is that we had enough of these posts.

Satoshi Nakamoto is definitely not Hal Finney. Both of them dont look or type the same way - from my point of view. That all I would like to say. I have my own theory of who Satoshi Nakamoto is. Not going to share anytime soon.

Threads like that are everywhere nowdays ... If I had to choose I will say  Gavin Andreesen or Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto
However .. We will never know because he don't want us to know , he is too smart to be caught ;D also isn't his informations sold on Darknet or whatever ? so there is some people out there who knows his idendity , same goes for Theymos I'd say he know him for real I don't see how he would give him the responsability of handling this forum without knowing him or trusting him
 

Why we care about who is Satoshi Nakamoto, he choose to leave and keep anonymous. So let us give him what he want: peace.
Let we develop bitcoin to make it success, this is the most important things.

This.

Or you should be able to vote for numerous people. I think bot Nick Szabo and Hal had something to do with it or know more than we do about the creation of bitcoin or the identity of satoshi.

it could be true also, if we are guessing that satoshi is not a single entity, so this poll does not make much sense, it missing many options

Agreed , I was going to say the same thing , I've seen and heard a theory on a video (forgot which one) and I heard that for the first and last time because nobody here talks about it ... anyway the videos says that Bitcoin is from Samsung and other companies or something :o

What will you do if you know who Satoshi Nakamoto is?
Do you want him to give you more bitcoin and get rich?
I think it's just his choice to keep his identity
What do you think if the government know his identity?

Hey, here's a more thorough list of his "love of our neighbors" in this community and from a trusted source -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=713699.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=713699.0).

I think I have confused BTC80,000 with $80,000, which would fall in line with your 127btc number. Sorry for my mistake! However, his scam history doesn't appear to be a mistake. Don't give this guy the time of day. The more attention he gets the more his previous fraud is ignored and forgotten.

Hey Michael, are you the guy from Law & Order?

god  ???

Ryland

You left out an option.  Obviously his real identity is Elvis.  He didn't get taken by aliens, he just hid away in a cave for years learning numbers and things so he could create bitcoin.  That is my theory and I am sticking to it.

Maybe someone friends with Mark Karpeles and MTGOX?

Nobody know who is real Satoshi Nakamoto. I only know he helped me to have better life from created Bitcoin.  ;D

i just know he was an japanies scientist who dreamed of a currency which is not being controled by government and he did so..he invented bitcoin and now he is dead but we are even now using his invention with a lot of intrest and i belive peoples will not leave this idea till end

The hacker who recently attacked bitcointalk got the IP address each user registered through, and each user's last used IP address. He probably got two IP addresses used by Satoshi. Could those addresses reveal who Satoshi is if neither of them was a tor IP, or a VPN IP?

For those who think 'none of the above', who do you think is Satoshi??? Post in the thread .. I'm curious

Regarding the current evidence, it is impossible to know who is Satoshi. Thinking someone is does nothing. Please stop this shit ;)

Hmm who is the real satoshi maybe its the whole development team and used it as a name to throw people off maybe that person is realy or maybe its just a cover up who knows. The only time this will ever happen is if the real satoshi stands up comes back and makes himself known to the bitcoin core team devs and becomes part of it again. Maybe he is doing other cryptos. One will never truly known until the real satoshi steps up.

I very much doubt satoshi was dumb enough to leave traces of his IP behind especially when he went to all this trouble to stay anon. Besides, I think I read somewhere that theymos locked the account and removed any traces of his activity to stop people trying to hack into it for that reason.

You are missing a name (the real name) in your list of names.
It has recently been discovered that Satoshi is Tupac Shakur......

True story!  ::) ::) ::)

Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072123.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072123.0)

Yeap, apart from that nobody is allowed to register an account name with the name Satoshi in it.
Try it and you will see I am right.
(Yes I tried it too  ;) )

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What does that have to do with anything I said? And two or three donators changed their name to satoshi the other day. Not sure how they did it, though.

Well, you did mention that Theymos went through several precautional steps to ensure that satoshis account and name doesn't get tampered with.
I just said that he also went through the trouble of not allowing anyone to register using the founders name - Satoshi.

Does that not sound like relevant to you?  ::)

I voted for Dorian.
He is the only one in that list that likes privacy and "kept away" from anything called digital currency.

All the rest had something to do with some kind of digital currency and they weren't discreet about it.
So I have no reason to believe it was any of them.


Now, do I think it's truly Dorian?
I wouldn't rule that out, but I wouldn't put my hand on fire.

He likes privacy so much that he releases bitcoin under his own name? Makes perfect sense /sarcasm. If there's one person that the creator of bitcoin isn't it's Dorian.


Not really. You said 'apart from' which doesn't make sense unless you are disagreeing with something I said.

Don't you just love it when some idiots just rush to make their bullshit comment about someone's post, yet only quote what they need to make their bullshit comment? /sarcasm  ;)
Apart from that, he changed his name to Dorian and that is what he has been using for more than 30 years.

What you have (intentionally) left out:

Seriously now?
You did not find it relevant because I said "apart from", as in apart from what he said.....

Seriously?

I think the only idiot here is the person who thinks Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto is the guy who created bitcoin. If you think he is Satoshi then you're as foolish as the idiot who wrote the entirely speculative original article on him based on nothing but assumptions and circumstance and is getting sued for it. What good would be changing your name when you don't actual change it from having Satoshi Nakamoto in it? If you wanted to remain anon or sever all ties to yourself you wouldn't use any names previously associated with yourself and the real Satoshi wouldn't be stupid enough to do that.

Oh, look everyone, his boyfriend came to the rescue.....
Or is it your other account?

At least this one quoted me right.

So tell us "boyfriend" what does this mean?:
"I wouldn't rule that out, but I wouldn't put my hand on fire."

Let me save you the trouble of having to ask someone with a bit of brains....

It means that I don't really think so but I wouldn't say he is not for sure.

Now, thank you for taking the time to google Dorian and come here and post.
But your post was completely unnecessary.
And you shouldn't have used your other account to "back you up".

You just posted something that is silly and stupid and I commented on it and I'm sure many others will agree. Are others not allowed to comment now? Using petty insults doesn't do you any favors either and just distracts from the topic at hand which you are clearly trying to do. 'Put my hand on fire' doesn't make any sense either. Regardless, Dorian isn't satoshi so you can continue with the childishness of saying things like 'boyfriend' which are completely irrelevant and unnecessary like your entire post was because it doesn't change anything your previously said.

If there is someone that posts silly things and that is completely off topic is you and your other account.
No, noone else commented because they got what I was saying.
Apparently, it was only you that didn't get it.
And it's not that hard, it's basically that I wouldn't say Yes or No for sure.
What is silly or stupid about that?
Let me guess: It's the fact that you didn't get it.

My entire post was not irrelevant.
On the contrary yours was, in fact, why did you post?
Why do you keep wasting bandwidth when you are wrong and keep calling me things because you cannot comprehend what I have said?

Now please, either add to the topic - which is who is Satoshi - or go wash the dishes.

Thank you
Have a nice day.

I know he posted in this forum... Did anyone ever look into the forums logs to maybe trace him by IP address?

He always used Tor Browser and VPN to hide his real IP address.

And this is true because which admin looked at such for no reason?

User: Admin, can you look to see where Satoshi logs in from?
Admin: Sure, no prob.
User: Thanks.
Admin: WOW! This dude is slick. He or she used Tor and an VPN to hide his real IP address.
User: Thanks anyway.

Question: Which admin looked and why, then how did this truism become mainstream if the request was via some official means, for even via any other means, I can't think of a situation where an admin would take it upon himself to see what they could dig up then report the none-findings to the community. Think about it! This doesn't make a lick of sense.

Szabo, look at his yesterday tweets ("It doesn't work like that. Learn or GTFO"). Typical Satoshi.
It is not Hal Finney, because Hal actually protected Szabo in his letter to the community by being suspiciously specific about the "Japanese origins". It is just too obvious.



-Nick Szabo, 2003
empahsis added

Add Tatsuaki Okamoto on the poll

Tatsuaki Okamoto out of the suggested people definitely has the best chances so far to be Satoshi, there are a whole lot of similarities.

I think it's none of the above and probably nobody we've even suspected. He's probably just some random geek who came up with a great idea and just put it out into the world.


Like what? I think the name is far too similar. No point using an alias like this.

Here is my guess:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Perelman%2C_Grigori_%281966%29.jpg/300px-Perelman%2C_Grigori_%281966%29.jpg

Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a mathematician from Saint Petersburg, Russia. He had proved the Soul conjecture in 1994, and the Thurston's geometrization conjecture in 2003.

whoever he is I have a vague idea in mind that he will show up soon may be in anonymous way.

Theymos looked at his logged IPs addresses according to this post. He doesn't say why but he thinks they are Tor addresses.


Although I don't know much about Tor I guess theymos must because admins need to know a lot of technical things the rest of us don't have to take an interest in. If he says they are Tor addresses I trust his judgement.

i believe there is a way to distinguish TOR traffic from regular traffic, same as how some (terrible) ISP's can detect users that use p2p traffic. My guess is theymos has observed the traffic from satoshi's use on the forum and has a general idea that he used TOR to access the forum.

I'm pretty sure all TOR nodes are listed in an online directory somewhere

Is there an online directory of all TOR nodes that ever existed? If there is then theymos could have already checked Satoshi's IP addresses and ensured they are from Tor. That might explain why he discussed publishing them, because he knows for certain that they lead nowhere.

You guys know what? I am Satoshi Nakamoto  ::) ::)

called it :)

I did not vote in the poll. All this is another speculation. We will never know the whole truth.

Theory that Hal Finney became desperate after becoming sick/afflicted, and released bitcoin on the world/internet to try and make some money to pay his own way, and to pay for high costs of doctors etc...
where he may have had some reservations before-time, but after becoming
afflicted he then became desparate to make money to pay doctors
and pay for his own needs and stuff, you know.
Hal may have hired a fellow named 'satoshi nakamoto' who happened to live in the same town, and Hal had maybe become acquaintances with him in the past.
He hired satoshi to help out, because his afflictions made it hard to do the work himself.
It is a theory.

Here is the link below.

Hal Finney's afflictions & the effect on the creation of bitcoin
http://smartcoin.boards.net/thread/47/hal-finneys-afflictions-effect-creation (http://smartcoin.boards.net/thread/47/hal-finneys-afflictions-effect-creation)

Now don't tell me that you don't believe me  :D

Yep, I've always thought he is someone that is still active in the community as well.

And I told, that someone is me  ;D

I don't know whether he is active right now, but I am more or less certain that he will be among the first 25 users registered to Bitcointalk. So let's do our bit of R&D. Here is the list of first 25 members of the Bitcointalk (in the order of oldest members to the latest):

admin
sirius
nandnor
Xunie
madhatter
nanaimogold
SmokeTooMuch
The Madhatter
xuO4k04c6Ng
The Doctor
AgoraMutual
RogerRabbit
1 currency now
dwdollar
NewLibertyStandard
riX
Sabunir
giik
BitcoinFX
Suggester
livingsoulnation
m0mchil
BlueSky
theymos
nphyx

Yes, he was amongst the first 25 users. He was the third registered and his name is satoshi. I don't know what makes you certain that he is any of the others and most of them aren't active any more either. I think if he was going to stick around he would either have a new handle or just be a lurker, but like he originally said he' probably just 'moved on to other things'.

I once made this list
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=912930

I think you should be looking for the first 50-100 that registered after the day he left.
It would make more sence that he created an account after he left rather than have 2 or more accounts while he was active in the forums.

So if he did register a new account my bet would be definitely someone around that time.
Maybe even a couple of months later or something.

However, I doubt he registered a new account.
He is probably watching the forums as a "guest".

Satoshi did not want his/her identity to be revealed and that's why it's most likely that he did not register another account. I am certain he is not in the first 50-100 accounts after he left. He was last active in December 13, 2010 and he has good reasons not to be active under his name anymore.

On the contrary, that is a better reason to create more accounts to take the heat off you. He might not be active under his name any more but nobody knows if he has alts. I think satoshi was a tor user so it would be easy to have alt accounts and I'm sure he did. Maybe he does maybe he doesn't and I guess we'll never know.

There is no Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin creator in this world anymore. He died in 2010 or 2011. ::)

How can you say that? How you know this?

We're on the same page. I'm also thinking that the persona behind Satoshi Nakamoto died a few years back (sickness/natural causes or killed by someone), though there are some people that I think is Satoshi (the EhVedadooAnonimato user here in bitcointalk, topic here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1062829.0).

Satoshi Nakamoto is the founder of Bitcoin, he was impressed and attracted towards lot of analysts in this world, during the Julian Assange crisis, Santoshi Nakamoto last words is this " It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us " after this Satoshi Nakamoto has been disappeared :(

Satoshi Nakamoto is really a mystery. No one has seen or know who he really is. It could even possibly be a robot or an organization rather than an individual. I hope Satoshi comes out to the public one day.

sigh.

Its more fun not knowing. The man can never be as powerful as the myth.

My vote is for John Nash. That way they can make a sequel to "A Beautiful Mind" with Russell Crowe as Satoshi Nakamoto. :)

Yeah i also believing that he was alive so that all of bitcoin users tribute him for making bitcoin and helping for other.

haha the man is a mystery, at times i think he might be some college dude who did this amazing invention or he might be some old math and computer genius who has done this, he will be a mystery unless he wishes to come out and explain to the world who he is, which i think will not likely happen.

when I first bitcoin know, I find out who made it and everyone says satoshi Nakamoto but until now the news was still confusing.
so I do not want to find it again, because it may be up whenever will never be revealed. only time will tell everything haha


haha whether there is a link about it?  :)

we will never know

True, and not only for entertainment purposes, it's better for the coin that we know as little as possible from the author, otherwise it could be used to attack the coin itself. The less of satoshi's personality we know, the more neutral Bitcoin feels for the newspapers.

My vote would be for Nick Szabo, at least it definitely would be from among those choices.

The real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is actually a pivotal concern for the mainstreaming of Bitcoin; if there is no founder found, people who know next to nothing about BTC have yet another very big reason not to buy into it. Having someone to serve as a figurehead of sorts does help.

It's kind of like being first among equals. People just need a face to go with a name.

Having a Bitcoin Foundation, even though it is not officially in charge of BTC or anyone working on it, lends some credibility to the BTC protocol.

Non-tech folks don't trust computer code; they need a human face on an invention. Until there's a person or group associated in public opinion with Bitcoin, going mainstream will be a problem.

Which option would be best for Bitcoin?
Which option would be the worst for Bitcoin?
Which option is the most likely?
Which option is the least likely?

• The creator of Bitcoin is never known.  The early Bitcoins remain untouched
• The creator of Bitcoin is never known.  The early Bitcoins are eventually used in transactions
• The creator of Bitcoin is self-identified while he is alive (by producing a statement and proof)
• The creator of Bitcoin is self-identified after he has died (by him leaving a manifesto and proof)
• The creator of Bitcoin is involuntarily identified while he is alive
• The creator of Bitcoin is involuntarily identified after he has died

Interesting theory, but highly unlikely - If Nick was Satoshi, why would he have dinner with the BTC core devs in March 2014 and allow his photo to be taken with them?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/36hfu4/pic_coredevs_having_dinner_with_nick_szabo/

I wouldn't be surprised if he had something to do with bitcoin, but I really doubt he is satoshi, but no one knows for sure. Let's hope it stays that way, for everyone's sake. ;)

 

How does "everyone" benefit from not knowing?  

Does this scenario sound more mutually beneficial?  

• The creator of Bitcoin is self-identified after he has died (by him leaving a manifesto and proof).  We get our George Washington (minus the wooden teeth and wig-wearing myths).  Maybe he describes the inspiration process, creation and deployment events, why he walked away, and why so many early Bitcoins are unspent.  
  
  Or we can just create various combinations of Jesus, Jack the Ripper, and the Babushka Lady.

I meant that more along the lines of:

1. SN keeps his identity private as he/she/they obviously want.
2. I'm of the opinion that not knowing the identity keeps all those coins in check, so to speak - Do we really want Satoshi to cash out or leave his fortune to some kid or something, I mean that could happen anyhow, but the chances seem slimmer right now.  

Of course, your scenario would be really cool for all in some ways, obviously it would lend a bit more legitimacy for skeptics etc, but again, what would be the primary benefit to all, or even Bitcoin itself, other than "Just knowing"? What about all those old coins/keys sitting on the chain? Who gets them? Are the private keys gone? Are they going to be cashing them out?  This is where even more uncertainty comes in, so that's why I said "everyone". In hindsight, I suppose I should have said "stays that way for now".

sorry I replied too fast and missed this:


Yes, all that info would be amazing indeed, so many unanswered questions ...

Cheers. ;)

I think it would lend much more legitimacy to Bitcoin. 

Maybe. Then again, what if it turned out to be some russian scammer? then it could go the other way and actually hurt it.... (Silly example, but you get the point).

So many theories, I love this topic! :)

I agree that Memoirs of a Russian Scammer would not be beneficial.

Indeed! I only picked that example because there are theories running around about the creator of the Cryptonote codebase, "Nicholas van Saberhagen" actually being Mr. Andrey N. Sabelnikov. (Many also believe he is "Cryptozoidberg", the current lead dev on the Boolberry (BBR) cryptonote coin), but that's getting way off topic. ;)

Edit - sounds dumb, but there are some that actually believe Cryptonote was Satoshi's "new" project... Get out the tin foil hats! ::)

He could have done it for exactly that, so people say "If he was Satoshi, why would he do it?"
If he shows himself as Nick, then people think he is just Nick and not Satoshi.

I've heard in news in China that he is an actually person, just like us, who graduated in MIT years ago. Not much information was released about him, and there is no photo ever recorded. But I can be certain he is a real person, even though it is possible for Satoshi to be a group of people, or even a robot, no one knows. I hope he steps out soon, it will definitely have an impact on our World's economy.

Yes maybe he is the way how to introduce the bitcoin in world and he is the way to the future of the currency and also bitcoin will the first world currency.

The maker of bitcoin..!!!!

Or it could have the opposite effect. What if satoshi was a 'criminal' in the eyes of the law, or they managed to tie something to him? I think its better than he remains anon. I like the mystique and enigma of him and what it adds to bitcoin.

Your questionaire is incomplete IMO.
List options 3-6 make no mention of Satoshi's Bitcoins.

So, so far I got this:

Which option would be best for Bitcoin?
The creator of Bitcoin is never known.  The early Bitcoins remain untouched

Which option would be the worst for Bitcoin?
The creator of Bitcoin is self-identified while he is alive (by producing a statement and proof)

Which option is the most likely?
The creator of Bitcoin is involuntarily identified after he has died

Which option is the least likely?
The creator of Bitcoin is never known.  The early Bitcoins are eventually used in transactions

Satoshi aren't supposed to be uncovered. So regardless of the facts presented it's a selling point for any mystery to stay as is.

Interesting!  Here are my answers:

Which option would be best for Bitcoin?
The creator of Bitcoin is self-identified after he has died (by him leaving a manifesto and proof)

Which option would be the worst for Bitcoin?
The creator of Bitcoin is never known.  The early Bitcoins are eventually used in transactions

Which option is the most likely?
The creator of Bitcoin is involuntarily identified after he has died

Which option is the least likely?
The creator of Bitcoin is self-identified while he is alive (by producing a statement and proof)

I think it's not likely that he will get indetified after Satoshi dies. He's too smart to leave cues. Only if he wants to do that, it will happen.Which means he would need to plan it, which means if he dies in a sudden accident he would never be able to disclose the information and the mystery would never be solved (I doubt he would trust anyone to disclose the information for him in case that happens).

It seems that Satoshi was a master of anonymity even before he knew how popular BTC would be.

That is one of the biggest mysteries in bitcoin, along with  "where is satoshi now".
"bitcoin will raise to 1.000,00 dollars"again ... ?
:D

He's obviously skilled at coding and could set up a web server with a time delay mechanism timed to release proof of his identity five years after his last login to it. If he had an accident it would reveal his identity five years after his death. He wouldn't have to trust anyone and could obfuscate the code on the server to prevent anyone with access to it discovering his identity.

Unless he was a time traveler, which would mean, he would have known exactly how popular BTC would be.

Who cares? He obviously wanted to be left alone. We should respect that.

This is just hilarious, thanks! ;)

The following is the first instance on this forum in which the title of this thread was posed?

Satoshi is never going to be found out .. unless he wants to be

Who is your father? that's the same question when you asking the creator of Bitcoin 8)

He is smart enough that he will keep them hidden from general public, since it's safer for his life, his coins are worth a lot, so he will not gamble his life on public

I believe the USA gov. knows who he is if they are interested, he must have leaked his IP somewhere.
Also his main e-mail account was hacked, there could be some ID info there but i find it hard.

Yes you are also asking yourself when you asking who is satoshi nakamoto. He is the reason why many people helps financially and mentally with this bitcoin. So that you must know who is he .

From the Inter-Web..

The name Satoshi is of Japanese origin.

'Satoshi is generally used as a boy's name. It consists of 7 letters and 3 syllables and is pronounced Sa-to-shi.'

'In the U.S. in 2014 less than 5 boys given the name. Less than 5 girls were given the name.'

The meaning of Satoshi is "clear thinking, quick witted, wise". 

There are definitely not enough options on that list. Too many options, only vague clues, and a lot of mystery.

how do you know that his real name is satoshi ? is just like looking pin in a haystack

in fact there is high chances that it isn't, seeing how he wanted to stay anon

the fact that he was helped by another guy for building this forum make me believe that he was helped too when he build bitcoin, for this reason i think that satoshi nakamoto is something like "skydrow" or "rg mechanics" or whatever...

I think he made a logical choice of disappearing. There are plenty of organizations who would get him as soon as his identity is uncovered.

He will never appear, because he has million of bitcoins and this mean,
he is or will be one of the richest persons on this planet.
So when he will be seen, then his live will be not more the same,

he would be pursued at every turn he make for the rest of his life.

Satoshi Nakamoto is an idea of a collective group form to establish this idealism that bitcoin could bring something more to the world, i say we could all be satoshi Nakamoto just by thinking what bitcoin can offer to the others.

It's safe to assume that at this point satoshi's coin are lost forever, he doesn't own them. It wouldn't benefit anyone if he went public tho, he would still be threatened even if he legitimately lost control of his coins.

I think it matters not who Satoshi is. The only thing that matters is if he is still alive and if/when he plans to spend any of his Bitcoin hoard.

Satoshi is a noble human.He is an ordinary person who did something extraordinary.Our economy needs more people like him with innovative ideas . Just for the record , he's the creator of Bitcoin.

But you are talking about a guy/person who is quoted as saying "noone should ever delete a wallet", so I am not so sure about that myself, only time will tell I suppose.


Lol... really? an "ordinary" person? ...  ;)

I'm personally not disturbed by these ideas, I think there is a very high probability that the Bitcoins Satoshi mined will never move because the keys have been tragically lost in some way.

most likely the initial bitcoin he mined are in an old computer now somewhere in hes garage that will stop to operate and will never see the light of day, he most have a main account he uses and doesn't feel like he needs every bitcoin he ever mined from the beginning.

if Nakamoto decides to put his bitcoins to use, with so many eyes on his original bitcoins, it wouldnt take the NSA to figure out who is spending them. Thats the beauty of the open source public ledger system.

I see that most of people voted for someone called "Nick  Szabo" also Wikipedia don't have really informations about him and I never seen some of his statements or something is he that hard to find   , how come I never heard of him and when I googled on images his name it gives pictures of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto or Gavin Andreesen and other people  ???

EDIT : http://www.ronpaulforums.com/content.php?8484-Nick-Szabo-Alleged-creator-of-Bitcoin-is-a-Ron-Paul-supporter is it him ?

it seems he is still alive and relax enjoying the richness of bitcon hahaha

Fortunately Bitcoin works just fine without Satoshi. if his identity is never discovered. The idea of an invention as great as Bitcoin having been unleashed by an anonymous benefactor is quite cool.

I think gavin is satoshi nakamoto

Bitcoin was made by the Russian KGB intelligence services in an effort to undermine the US Dollar and IMF hegemony.

Id give my vote to Nash.

Yeah and he forgot to bequeath his 1 Mio Bitcoins to his also schizophrenic son. My vote goes to nobody in the list, because I think SN died in 2010.

i have a theory, satoshi could be Ross Ulbricht, he created bitcoin for silkroad, notice how he left in late 2010 and silk road was born in 2011, perhaps a coincidence but still feasible...

but maybe this was already taken into account as a possibility

For some reasons I don't think so to be honest , why would someone create a Illegal marketplace on the Darknet and take chances to get caught  ? I'am pretty sure its' for money and Satoshi should have more then 1m BTC , right ? then why would he create it  ??? ??? Dosen't make sense to me
He was looking to hide and not to be more visible and Satoshi was really 100% cancerned about his Privacy even if his IP got leaked from P2P foundation once .

He's a great man that gave us this beautiful tech and who is trying to help people worldwide. This is really everything anyone should ever know!

at that time bitcoin wasn't worth so much, so myabe it was a easy way for him to rise the awareness and usage of bitcoin and thus his price, i don't know now the whole story of that guy, but he wasn't probably his fault if he get caught

also notice how the price of bitcoin skyrocketed 1 month after he was arrested, there are too many coincidences with that fact...

Reminds me of Vincent's Picks from the video store on Seinfeld episode 1997 "The comeback".

Since he is not a well known person one can't know who he is unless they know him personally. The only way to know who he is; is to find out what other new work he has done aside from bitcoin.

The poll doesn't give an option to say 'more than one person'.

I find it interesting in the white paper where Nakamoto refers to 'we' as opposed to 'I'. But then again, I'm not sure if some of those ideas had already been hacked out with Anderson and others and that is what he meant by 'we'.

he did not seem to work because he already has millions bitcoin they wallet
perhaps he was relaxing at home

I guess it's not only one person, it's a team.

A question of 1 million dollars. Or better a question of 1 million bitcoins. I think that that think the majority of the people. A mysterious man who made a fortune in bitcoin with which has assured ten generations of his race, a men who has invented something big which will have bigger and bigger impact in all our everyday lives and a person who I will hope will show his face one day before it will be late and will be dead. A extraordinary men who with his modesty can become example for to many others who without doing nothing stay everyday before tv cameras.

Maybe a group of friends and maybe one person. Whatever it will be it is something which deserve the biggest respect for what has/have made for the people. I am not telling here about bitcoin as a currency but for bitcoin as a technology. Its impact will be bigger and bigger in our everyday life and will change our lives like the time of internet. Or even more. I would like to know (to see) those/him but I know that this will be very difficult. But this don't impedes me to wish them/ him all the best of this world. Even solely for their/his modesty to not be present themselves/himself and to enjoy their/his fame.

i this Gavin Andreesen can be the satoshi nakamoto..but as nobody can surely say this..we have nothing to do..but accourding to my knowledge he is just tge father of cryptocurrency system..and really hats off to his invention

I am here to answer this question. The real Satoshi Nakamoto the inventor of is a Macro Economist, Mathematician, Digital Scientist and Social Engineer. He is not a Japanese man. As Ted Nelson thinks that Shinichi Mochizuchi is Satoshi Nakamoto. Ted Nelson is wrong same as Leah M. Goodman thought that Dorian Prentice Nakamoto is the inventor of Bitcoin. No body in the Bitcoin Talk Forum or in the Bitcoin Community is Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi Nakamoto is one single man who invented the Bitcoin. He is a British Asian Digital Scientist. I am here in the Bitcoin Talk Forum to reveal some information that I am permitted to reveal about Satoshi Nakamoto the inventor of Bitcoin. He invented Bitcoin in May 2007 after 14 years of constant research on digital electronic currency. He invented Bitcoin from his bed room in house in Mardell Road Croydon South London. I have met Satoshi Nakamoto many times, after two years of research on Bitcoin. I have spent £160,000 Pound to travel around the world to find information about the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto. Indeed, he is not a mysterious person at all. He is a very humble man. :: The report I am publishing here is 100% accurate. :: I myself asking a question to every Bitcoin Talk Forum members, why you have failed to find Satoshi Nakamoto? You can not answer my question because the Bitcoin Community Leaders the Computer Hackers do not want you to know who is real Satoshi Nakamoto. There is a serious secret behind Bitcoin about their association with the Bitcoin. They want to keep their secret concealed under a cloud so no body will know their Dread Pirate Hijacking of the Bitcoin Project from Satoshi Nakamoto. But I have managed to uncovered every mystery and secret about Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto and about the DPRs. Silk Road was not first project of the DPRs. Dread Pirate Roberts is not only Ross Ulbricht but there are three Roberts there who are the real DPRs, those who are a well organised computer hackers. Satoshi Nakamoto the inventor of Bitcoin was their first victim. They hijacked the Bitcoin Project from Satoshi Nakamoto with a dreadful pirate attack. These organised computer hackers were working under the wings of the British Metroplitan Police Department. They used Croydon Police and Judiciary to commit the dreadful pirate attack on Satoshi Nakamoto. One of the DPR took a job in the Croydon Metropolitan Police as Detective Constable but his main job wast to Hijack the Bitcoin Project from Satoshi Nakamoto. They arrested Mr. Satoshi Sakamoto with a false accusation masterminded by the computer hackers, those who were sponsored by a well organised entity who has an affiliation to the Secret Service of the Anglo American Finanancial Establishment. Satoshi Nakamoto is am individual. He told me, he has suffered dreadfully because of his invention Bitcoin. Also he said, he wish that he did not inven Bitcoin. He regret for his own invention. But why a scientist regret for his own invention such as Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a break through and a successful financial invention but why Mr. Satoshi Nakamoto is regretting for his own invention Bitcoin? The whole financial community and the Bitcoin community want to know who is Satoshi Makamoto but the Leaders of the Bitcoin Community do not want every one to know who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Because the Bitcoin Community leaders are the close associates of the DPRs. They are now attacking Satoshi Nakamoto to oppress him. Why does this organised hackers are oppressing Satoshi Nakamoto? He has no interest in Bitcoin. The computer hackers have stolen all the Bitcoin from Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi Nakamoto do not own any Bitcoin at all. The computer hackers have stolen all the Bitcoin and divided among themselves. Satoshi Nakamoto has forgiven all the hackers those who have hijacked his Bitcoin project. >>>

It may be a good time for you and your physician to review your list of medications.

And I am Satoshi Nakamoto.  

Come on, everybody, join in!

I dont think we will ever know! and it could be a team rather than a single person!
I wish we could know who he / they is / are!

this has been going around inside my head for a while now.
I think Satoshi Nakamoto is Hal Finney that was revived centuries from now and traveled back in time.

there. I said it.

so he will appear in terminator genesis as a protagonist? :P

Mr. TippingPoint,

You are a Hiro Member in the  Bitcoin Talk Forum. You should not insult any one. You have no knowledge of 'BitcoinTail' so it is better for you to go to Primary School to learn a, b, c, d. You will receive a Certificate of Accreditation according to you merit and credential. BSS.

If you disagree about any thing, you can point out your ground of disagreement. If you insault any one there is a consequences. So be wise. It cost you no Bitcoin to be wise.

- Roselyn Hamilton

Your writing is not clear. Who do you mean by 'he' Nick Szabo or Satoshi Nakamoto? I am the Spoke Person of Satoshi Nakamoto. I am here answer all question about Bitcoin and about Satoshi Nakamoto. Feel free to ask me. Nick Szabo or Gavin Andresen is not Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi Nakamoto met Nick Szabo once in December 2013. Satoshi Nakamoto is Sone one else.
-Roselyn

Wow, who are you, the BCT Police? As for Schooling, you appear to really need some in spelling and basic English grammer.  Good luck with that! :P

BTW - instead of just bitching about it, learn to use the Report To Moderator link, even though you will probably be ignored, eh?  PS your blog sucks too , what a bunch of bs...

Edit - that guy is off his meds for sure,,, Wow,,, just,,, wow... LMFAO.

I am here to reveal and unmask the real Satoshi Nakamoto the inventor of Bitcoin. He is no one in the Bitcoin Community or in the Cyberpunks group. He is not a Japanese man. Satoshi Nakamoto is a British Asian Digital Scientist and Mathematician. Who discovered the Bitmark Algorithm Formula in May 2007 and invented Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology. I am the Spoke Person of Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi Nakamoto will permit me soon to reveal his identity. Please wait for a little while.

- Roselyn Hamilton
  Staff Reporter
  Bitcoin Telecast

Can't ... stop ... laughing.

Can't believe somebody choose option Gavin Andreesen, John Nash is the right guy

my question to this question is why do we even want to know who he is ? he has done everyone a huge favor already by creating bitcoin and if he chose to stay hidden or anonymous its his personal life. the way bitcoin has threatened the goverments and all i dont even think he will even want to come out one day and say ok i am satoshi and every govt pinning/accusing him for everything which has been done wrong in bitcoin usage

just hope he is not this guy trying to overthrow all of the world

http://www.jadaliyya.com/content_images/fck_images/mask.jpg



Satoshi you 'fiend'  he then dumps all his BTC in a 1 hr period YIKES! :)

Now we are a talking a well planned out from 2009 anarchy don't cha know :)

They are geniuses of the 21st century

I don't know who Roselyn is but seems interesting troll or not. Will stay around to see what happens. Personally I dont really care who invented Bitcoin, as long as it works. I dont think we would benefit from knowing who satoshi was.

of course.
this is from wikipedia.com

Satoshi Nakamoto (中本哲史 Nakamoto Satoshi?) is a person or group of people who created the Bitcoin protocol and reference software, Bitcoin Core (formerly known as Bitcoin-Qt). In 2008, Nakamoto published a paper[1][2] on The Cryptography Mailing list at metzdowd.com[3] describing the Bitcoin digital currency. In 2009, he released the first Bitcoin software that launched the network and the first units of the Bitcoin currency, called bitcoins.[4][5]

Nakamoto continued to collaborate with other developers on the Bitcoin software until mid-2010. Around this time, he handed over control of the source code repository and network alert key to Gavin Andresen,[6] transferred several related domains to various prominent members of the Bitcoin community, and stopped his involvement in the project.

The public Bitcoin transaction log shows that Nakamoto's known wallets contain roughly one million bitcoins. As of June 2015, this was the equivalent of US$250 million.[7][8] Nakamoto's true identity remains unknown, and has been the subject of much speculation. It is not known whether the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" is real or a pseudonym, or whether the name represents one person or a group of people.

While we may not know who he (or she) was, we know what he did. He was the inventor of the bitcoin protocol, publishing a paper via the Cryptography Mailing List in November 2008.

He then released the first version of the bitcoin software client in 2009, and participated with others on the project via mailing lists, until he finally began to fade from the community toward the end of 2010.

He worked with people on the open-source team, but took care never to reveal anything personal about himself, and the last anyone heard from him was in the spring of 2011, when he said that he had “moved on to other things”.

But he was Japanese, right?

Best not to judge a book by its cover.Or in fact, maybe we should.

“Satoshi” means "clear thinking, quick witted; wise". “Naka” can mean “medium, inside, or relationship”. “Moto” can mean “origin”, or “foundation”.

Those things would all apply to the person who founded a movement by designing a clever algorithm. The problem, of course, is that each word has multiple possible meanings.

We can’t know for sure whether he was Japanese or not. In fact, it’s rather presumptuous to assume that he was actually a ‘he’.

We’re just using that as a figure of speech, but allowing for the fact that this could have been a pseudonym, ‘he’ could have been a ‘she’, or even a ‘they’.

Does anyone know who Nakamoto was?

No, but the detective techniques that people use when guessing are sometimes even more intriguing than the answer. The New Yorker’s Joshua Davis believed that Satoshi Nakamoto was Michael Clear, a graduate cryptography student at Dublin's Trinity College.

He arrived at this conclusion by analyzing 80,000 words of Nakamoto’s online writings, and searching for linguistic clues. He also suspected Finnish economic sociologist and former games developer Vili Lehdonvirta.

Both have denied being bitcoin’s inventor. Michael Clear publicly denied being Satoshi at the 2013 Web Summit.

anonymous group of peopleAdam Penenberg at FastCompany disputed that claim, arguing instead that Nakamoto may actually have been three people: Neal King, Vladimir Oksman, and Charles Bry. He figured this out by typing unique phrases from Nakamoto’s bitcoin paper into Google, to see if they were used anywhere else.

One of them, "computationally impractical to reverse," turned up in a patent application made by these three for updating and distributing encryption keys. The bitcoin.org domain name originally used by Satoshi to publish the paper had been registered three days after the patent application was filed.

It was registered in Finland, and one of the patent authors had traveled there six months before the domain was registered. All of them deny it. Michael Clear also publicly denied being Satoshi at the 2013 Web Summit.

In any case, when bitcoin.org was registered on August 18th 2008, the registrant actually used a Japanese anonymous registration service, and hosted it using a Japanese ISP. The registration for the site was only transferred to Finland on May 18th 2011, which weakens the Finland theory somewhat.

Others think that it was Martii Malmi, a developer living in Finland who has been involved with bitcoin since the beginning, and developed its user interface.

A finger has also been pointed at Jed McCaleb, a lover of Japanese culture and resident of Japan, who created troubled bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox and co-founded decentralized payment systems Ripple and later Stellar.

Another theory suggests that computer scientists Donal O'Mahony and Michael Peirce are Satoshi, based on a paper that they authored concerning digital payments, along with Hitesh Tewari, based on a book that they published together. O’Mahony and Tewari also studied at Trinity College, where Michael Clear was a student.

Israeli scholars Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute retracted allegations made in a paper suggesting a link between Satoshi and Silk Road, the black market web site that was taken down by the FBI in October 2013. They had suggested a link between an address allegedly owned by Satoshi, and the site. Security researcher Dustin D. Trammell owned the address, and disputed claims that he was Satoshi.

In May 2013, Internet pioneer Ted Nelson threw another hat into the ring: Japanese mathematician Professor Shinichi Mochizuki, although he admits that the evidence is circumstantial at best.

In February 2014, Newsweek’s Leah McGrath Goodman claimed to have tracked down the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Dorian S Nakamoto has since denied he knows anything about bitcoin, eventually hiring a lawyer and releasing an official statement to that effect.

Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto
No, Satoshi Nakamoto is not a 64-year-old Japanese man living in California, probably...
Hal Finney, Michael Weber, Wei Dai and several other developers were among those who are periodically named in media reports and online discussions as potential Satoshis. A group of forensic linguistics experts from Aston University believe the real creator of bitcoin is Nick Szabo, based upon analysis of the Bitcoin White Paper.

Dominic Frisby, a comedian and a writer, also suggests that BitGold creator Szabo was the most likely candidate to be Satoshi in his book, “Bitcoin: The Future of Money”. His detailed analysis involved the linguistics of Satoshi's writing, judging the level of technical skill in C++ and even Satoshi's likely birthday.

In Nathaniel Popper's book, 'Digitial Gold', released in May 2015, Popper reveals that in a rare encounter at an event Szabo again denied that he was Satoshi.

For the most part, all of these potential Satoshi's have insisted they are not Nakamoto. Michael Weber has not yet responded to Business Insider's article.

So what do we know about him?

One thing we know, based on interviews with people that were involved with him at an early stage in the development of bitcoin, is that he thought the system out very thoroughly.

His coding wasn’t conventional, according to core developer Jeff Garzik, in that he didn’t apply the same rigorous testing that you would expect from a classic software engineer.

How rich is he?

many bitcoin coins
zcopley / Flickr
An analysis by Sergio Lerner, an authority on bitcoin and cryptography, suggests that Satoshi mined many of the early blocks in the bitcoin network, and that he had built up a fortune of around 1 million unspent bitcoins. That hoard would be worth $1bn at November 2013’s exchange rate of $1,000.

What is he doing now?

No one knows what Satoshi is up to, but one of the last emails he sent to a software developer, dated April 23 2011, said “I’ve moved on to other things. It’s in good hands with Gavin and everyone.”

Did he work for the government?

There are rumors, of course. People have interpreted his name as meaning “central intelligence”, but people will see whatever they want to see. Such is the nature of conspiracy theories.

The obvious question would be why one of the three-letter agencies would be interested in creating a cryptocurrency that would subsequently be used as an anonymous trading mechanism, causing senators and the FBI alike to wring their hands about potential terrorism and other criminal endeavours. No doubt conspiracy theorists will have their views on that, too.

Perhaps it doesn’t matter. Core developer Jeff Garzik puts it succinctly. “Satoshi published an open-source system for the purpose that you didn’t have to know who he was, and trust who he was, or care about his knowledge,” he points out. Open-source code makes it impossible to hide secrets. “The source code spoke for itself.”

Moreover, it was smart to use a pseudonym, he argues, because it forced people to focus on the technology itself rather than on the personality behind it. At the end of the day, bitcoin is now far bigger than Satoshi Nakamoto.

Having said that, if the real Satoshi Nakamoto is out there – get in touch!

Sakamoto image via (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

http://www.coindesk.com/information/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto/

he's 100 most influential people in the world, at the time the magazine, published in the year 2030, maybe Lol haha

Whoever...? who cares, right?   ;D

Maybe not because bitcoin is the influencing thing not satoshi because if satoshi is the influencing person we know him and we can see his picture or him.

He is nobody.

An imaginary character, a ghost. He represents CIA or Apple Inc. or something big like one of those.

Who is Satoshi^[1] then? An imaginary character? No way!

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3

truly we dont care.But we are blessed what he has given us.

I think it's none of the above and probably nobody we've even suspected. He's probably just some random genius who came up with a great idea and just put it out into the world.

Sometime we need to know who the one that have created this bitcoin for us, and you could tell your next generations that he have made great invention in economic world for us, and you will show his face for them. But I think its a better way for him to hide his identity for now since there are many people and organizations that seeking him.

All option is not suitable.


Actually we need to care, Satoshi Nakamoto is the Legend. This should be written in the book of world history.

Whoever he/she is, I think he is dead by now. I just have this gut feeling that the dude died of some illness, and why he start to fade from the community during 2010? He/she started to get this disease and it conquered his/her body functions. We know him/her for sure, but because he/she is an adept on hiding his/her identity, we aren't exactly sure who he/she is. He/she is dead by now, that's what I think.

Satoshi Nakamoto it is BITCOIN

I think he is Satoshi Nakamoto, name similarity with satoshi makes me think like that

whoever he is, he has made our world for the better, but I also think if he is satoshi  8)

actually i'm more interested in why he left, if he is not dead, and there is no way to know if he is dead or not, this is a more interesting question than who he is

because apparently before he left he admit that there was still work to do with ddos, so i can't explain why, other than the fact that he is still here among us with a different nickname, just to be sure to be even more anonymous because now he is holding a bigger fortune....

he is a person that not want to become a fame and he not used his true name and also he don't want to become popular with his bitcoin because he want a simple life and not getting stressed with media and also with the problem in bitcoin.

The public Bitcoin transaction log shows that Nakamoto's known wallets contain roughly one million bitcoins. As of June 2015, this was the equivalent of US$250 million. Nakamoto's true identity remains unknown, and has been the subject of much speculation. It is not known whether the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" is real or a pseudonym, or whether the name represents one person or a group of people.

It is clear to me that whoever Satoshi Nakamoto was, he was deeply concerned about the nature of modern money and wished to see a new order come into existence. And that's what Bitcoin is.

What is with all this questions? I am the real Satoshi

Trololol.

yeah thats right, he is concerned on people and he wants to become the transaction easy thats why he invented bitcoin, and also he started to used digital money that needs in future.

Compare Satoshi Nakamoto and Nick Szabo's usage of the word 'though'.

Do you have any examples?

Peter Todd - this is the best case yet, its simple and makes perfect sense.  

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/420bua/peter_todd_is_probably_satoshi/ (backup - http://network23.org/dogecoin/part-1-peter-todd-is-probably-satoshi/)
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/422sf8/part2_in_2001_peter_todd_and_hal_finney_were/
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/422sf8/part2_in_2001_peter_todd_and_hal_finney_were/cz7jggy (hmmmmm)
https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/690445054599675904
https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/690618860622376960
https://twitter.com/Beautyon_/status/606164988806500352 (see also RBF Drama - https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/tree/replace-by-fee-v0.11.0 (https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/tree/replace-by-fee-v0.11.0))
https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/462514905661202432
https://twitter.com/octal/status/675660004926488577 (see also here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Lackey)

Bonus
http://research.ocadu.ca/mobilelab/project/portage
http://research.ocadu.ca/mobilelab/project/portage-cell-phone-xylophone
http://www.mobilemedia.uni-siegen.de/

I love how whenever someone sees a person with a lot of Bitcoins they assume it's Satoshi & start world-wide panic. It doesn't matter at all who he is, leave him alone. All of you are so desperate to find out when in reality you probably won't. Imagine how you would feel if everyone was trying to find you & you didn't want to be found. It's annoying to him, and all of us who have to see your shitty threads every single day. [Is +name+ Satoshi] [Did we find +satoshi+]
Just give it up.

It is hard to be a celebrity, you must taking drugs , run from paparazzi.. At the end you become mad!
Satoshi Nakamoto, manage to escape all this and also i believe he is rich man!
And he made many people rich! Especially gamers population!

I'm not Satoshi Nakamoto.

I don't know who Roselyn is but seems interesting troll or not. Will stay around to see what happens. Personally I dont really care who invented Bitcoin, as long as it works. I dont think we would benefit from knowing who satoshi was.

I don't care about who he is!
l admire his work, bitcoin soon can be something best world has ever seen!
If he don't want to reveal his identity we must appreciate his decision!

He's here in my house in Osaka right now.

I think the Americans have the perfect opportunity to nuke us now while he's here.

Edit: Satoshi left

In the end never knows for sure who he is.

WHO IS JOHN GALT?

Satoshi Nakamoto is our John Galt.

Stuff like this are strong and relevant info:

https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/462514905661202432

Problem is there's no way to really be certain, and my question is: does this really matters?

It's Hal Finney. He send himself the first 10 BTC to test the system obviously.

i actually really doubt that we already know who is satoshi nakamoto right now and in my opinion we will never know who he is as far as i know he used a lot of hiding programs in order to hide his identity

I don't understand why he doesn't want to get noticed and honored by the bitcoin community. He has been hiding since bitcoin actually became a "real" cryptocurrency.
Legends will always remain legends it seems...

wouldnt he have a lot of problems with law or something like that? remember that australian guy who got police in his house after someone predicted that he is satoshi? i believe that it might be the problem hes afraid of

no one knows that and i believe that we will never get to know that, its the way how it should be and if satoshi did not want to be recognized in my opinion we should appreciate his decision and not search for him

This is pretty pointless. Pretty much no one knows, probably only himself and possibly his very trusted friends.

This info l think is very expensive!
Do we have an offer?
 :D

None of your possible poll answers is Satoshi. Satoshi Nakomoto = god. And gods have no identities.

my theory is: http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ancient-aliens-it-was-aliens.jpg

Would you believe if I say you that I am Satoshi Nakamoto, obviously not , right ? Then why even expecting bro that who is he, where he is, I think the best for bitcoin is he keeps his identity secret as otherwise people would just eat his brain asking questions.

Nice explanation. For me also Satoshi Nakomoto must be a God. His invention is just amazing and very much foreseeing. I believe only God can do this kind of magic works.

He is great visionary man or visionary group with revolutionary idea how to change the world and help average people to achieve financial freedom.
This is enough for me and I really don't care about their true identity.
What will change in your life otr with bitcoin if you find answer to this question?
Nothing, I think.

None of them so I even didn't vote. I don't know who is Satoshi Nakamoto but I'm sure he is presented on this forum and most likely is reading this thread. That's why I want to write this: Good job, mate! )