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Over the years there has been a lot of speculation regarding the identity of Satoshi.
(The most recent being that Satoshi is Tupac Shakur  :o :o :o )

So, does it really matter to you who Satoshi is?
And why?

Yes it does.  The reason is that not knowing gives the community something mysterious to ponder.  Bitcoins are so technical and mathematical that it is nice to have a good conspiracy theory around here once in a while.

It does matter. History should record his real name on the book. This technology and invention has changed alot of things in life, I dont see why not about this. I think that everyone needs to know who he is and he should get all the fame and respect for creating bitcoin

Yeah, those (conspiracy theories) we have a lot in the forums  :D.

So you are saying it matters to know who Satoshi is or it is better to leave it as a mystery?

I couldn't agree with you more.
However, I am sure that there is a reason he/she/they did not step up to claim their fame for their work.

Maybe not.
for his safety better like this. i mean if  goverment suppose him like a criminial because bad people use his technology for bad thing.
we all know that bitcoin is decentralication and anonymous, so it was very difficult for goverment to track bad people who using bitcoin
but for history of bitcoin and the knowledge in bitcoin i have to say that we need satoshi to reveal his real identity

i think the technology that satoshi nakamoto invented matters more
and think of it like this

there are many things we use all day and we don't know who invented them but we are glad and thankful that it was invented

The reason will be security. He invented things that will change the world economy. Fortunately now, most goverment is ignoring bitcoin because they think that it is harmless for them but once they know about the real threat than Im sure they will be looking for satoshi. This could be why he is hiding his identity

Indeed it would be very nice to know to exactly who we owe this great technology and opportunity given to us,
but I also think that, that might endanger their lives as you have mentioned.

True, one cannot argue with that, however, we are not talking about everyday ordinary things here.
We are talking about something that can change the whole financial system.

in my opinion, it doesn't matter who satoshi really is. but the topics on who he is and everybody speculation about satoshi's real identity is always fun to read. and every now and then a new topic will show up that says the newest identity is ....

and as for the sake of history let the future history writers worry about real identity of satoshi, i am sure it would be revealed by then :D

I am pretty sure they know that Bitcoin is threatening their current system.
After all, why all the (exaggerated) bad news in the media?

Indeed it is fun to read all the stories/speculations on who Satoshi is.
I do however have doubts if their true identity will be revealed, unless they are in a very VERY powerful position.
Don't forget that they are sitting on a big pile of Bitcoins and there will be many that will attempt to snatch them.

I don't think it matters. For historical reasons Satoshi is good enough, and this way a myth will be created which will in turn give additional publicity to BTC. One day I think it will be known who he/she was but even if it doesn't happen it's not important.

Yes, because if it was created by the government, then I am sure many people would wonder why.
There are so many stupid theories to satoshi.

Here is one:

SATOSHI
5470541

5 - Five words in this sentence

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4 - 4 x 4 = 16,       6 - 1 = 5,    the previous number. Coincidence? I think not.

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7 - SEVEN has 5 letters in it. Letters are enclosed in envelopes. Envelopes have addresses written on them. Bitcoin has addresses.

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0 = Nothing. The government thinks nothing of bitcoin

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5 - Five is the fifth number, numbers is a crappy Apple Inc. ripoff of Microsoft Excel. Bitcoin was created to excel. Oh come on, these can't just be coincidences, can they?

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4 - Four, for    There are two different fours. Two, to, too   There are 3 different twos. 4x3x2=24 |  2x4 = 8 | 8^four = 4096 | 4096 is made of four numbers.

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I - 1 is a prime number and it also isn't a prime number. Therefore it is in a superposition. Atoms are in superpositions in Quantum computers. Quantum computers are thought to break bitcoin.


Come on guys the answers are staring at us in the face!! These cannot be coincidences, can they?

I've voted for maybe, because it's depend on you. If you want to know who is the creator of Bitcoin, then you need to know who is Satoshi. But if you don't need to know it or that's not your business, then you don't need to know who is he ;)
That's my opinion

Both Yes and NO!

"Yes" to end the mystery!

"No" Because it wont change anything! Bitcoins wont increase to 22 million from 21 :)

No, it doesn't.

What matter is whether the Bitcoin could be the future payment system. And if Bitcoin fails, nobody will even care what Bitcoin is.

I remember reading an article that pointed out Satoshi owns a lot of BTC. If these BTC are dumped, the market may not be able to stand up again, both from the dump and from the theory that the 'creator' has lost his faith. Who will hold his Bitcoin when the creator dumps ?? The article concluded that knowing this creator's intentions is very important for investors pouring money into BTC.

no it doesn't matter who is Satoshi because i don't think Satoshi was a person it was a code name or group of scientist, who worked in a group to create that amazing crypto currency so it doesn't matter who is behind this innovation.

i voted to yes as i think that is most important know about this genius person who is that Satoshi because this person deserve for Noble Prize in Economics for change the whole banking sector with this amazing and revolutionary currency who will be the next generation of fiat.

Some might argue with that saying: How can Bitcoin be a global currency if we don't know who invented it and for what purpose.

Interesting input.....
What have you taken before you posted this?
It must be really good  :D

No it does not even matter now, who the Satoshi is ? Bitcoin has made its own recognition and it will go like this far.Satoshi did great invention by creating Bitcoin but he reward is his work's success and usefulness .

That is quite true.
Many "deep pockets" are skeptical if to invest in Bitcoin (in whatever way) or not because of that.

That's what I thought until I read his posts on the forum.
It's kind of hard to believe that it is more than one person.
His posts are very consistent and at times you can almost feel it is just one person.

But then again I could be wrong.

Perhaps someday we would be better off knowing who the creator is
That said the mythos the creator possesses is quite large in the entity known as Satoshi but it is a mystery that I would also like to know the answer to someday.

No.
It will be a new kind of currency on it's own, because:


Bitcoin is not regulated.
At least not yet  :P

 Satoshi choose to keep anonymous, that means it real doesn't matter who is him.
He has left for 4 years and bitcoin developed very well.

The only reason to feel the need to know to me is that id like to know who potentially has access to the alleged 1 million btc Satoshi has accumulated in the past.

Although, from a company perspective, owning less than 10% of stock is not too bad ;)

Same here, hopefully before I die  :P
But once again, i am afraid that will not happen because it will endanger their life.

Satoshi indeed chose to be anonymous and we should respect that (or at least try to),
but, it does matter to some, some governments for example.

I believe that it only matters to those that are not technical, meaning those who do not understand anything by studying the open source code.

Those who understand the code and the technology would only like to know who Satoshi is to thank them.
But that is not necessary for them to know who Satoshi is.

That is indeed a good question of which perhaps we will also not learn the answer to.
As it has been said many times before, those coins should be considered burned because if even one satoshi moves from those coins then a Bitcoin crash should be expected.

The bad news in media could be from the goverment or it could be really a bad news about bitcoin. Most people dont know about bitcoin, this makes the news media always make bad news about it so they get attention for their news and that mostly people use bitcoin for bad things such as drug purchase, money launder and other things. This must be the reason satoshi want to stay away or else he will be blame for his creation

It is absolutely very much important for everyone to know who Satoshi is... I know he made Bitcoin to let everyone remain anonymous, but who doesn't want to know such an innovative face behind an awesome technology???

Satoshi himself is the existent of Bitcoins, so as Bitcoins has a symbol, Satoshi must also be possessing a face which everyone would like to see... ;)

Yes, I think Satoshi is not a person. Satoshi is a group with have superior brains and i want to meet with them.

This is a list of my favorite people.

1. Albert Einstein
2. Nikola Tesla
3. Satoshi Nakamoto

:)

LOL!
Sorry to say this but:

What would you think if someone tried to sell you something that keeps you anonymous and they are not anonymous?
So, being anonymous obviously helps with the promotion, right?  ;)

Nice list you got there.
And obviously it is people you cannot and will not ever meet with (with the exemption of Satoshi who is still with the living as far as we know, but still probably impossible).

It doesn't bother me that we don't know his true identity, it's upto him if he wants to remain anonymous.
He deserves anonymity, it's at his discretion.
We don't really need to know who he really is, it wouldn't benefit us at all to know.
Plus I kind of like the mystery around it, it's kinda cool.
The guy deserves to be left alone.

Yeah that's make sense, he even made a Cryptocurreny that totally anonymous. Then why should we (the users) know who is he, we all are anonymous Bitcoin user :)

He could be threatened by people demanding ransoms too.
The guy has an absolutely insane amount of coins, probably in cold storage, people could kidnap his family members, threaten him.
He'd need security like an A list celeb, by revealing himself he wouldn't be able to live a normal life.
I don't blame him for wanting to be anonymous at all.

It does, but as said, it was Satoshi who created BTC and BTC has a face now, but Satoshi doesn't...
He just gave it as a gift and left everyone, which is why everyone out there is eager to know who that great personality is...

I don't think people should waste their time something mythical. Bitcoin community have so many trouble as it is. Last thing they need is making crazy theories when they should be trying to make the community bigger and better.

With that amount of coins, no security is trustworthy unless it's cyborgs.
If his security is human then greed will take it's course....

True, very true.
It's the mystery that attracts everyones attention.
Which kind of also makes it a good marketing tool.

If you knew who Satoshi was, you might not be interested in Bitcoin that much for various reasons.

to tell you the truth i will never care about who is satoshi, because in the end ( at least for me ) the face behind bitcoin is irrelevant, will not change nothing if i see that satoshi is a girl  or is from china or whatever you want to imagine, te important thing is the bitcoin.

so i vote for NO, i dont care who is behind it :)

OK, so it wouldn't matter to you if Satoshi was a pedophile, a rapist, a thief and/or a mass murderer?
I am not saying he is, I am just saying that he could be and we will probably never know.

yes !!
offcrc it matters me or bothers me..
i wanna know that man who just created this revolution !!!

Most A-list celebrities or other millionaire entrepreneurs don't have security or get threats or whatever so I don't understand why satoshi would suddenly be a target. He probably just values his anonymity like many of us do on here already. Maybe he wasn't sure of the possible legal ramifications of creating such a currency either.

at least the others two have a face, satoshi is completely unknown

now that i think about it, satoshi was using a proxy when he was writing here? otherwise we could know from where he was typing

cmon man, dont bring it to the extreme ;) i know you understand what i want to say, yes? ;)

Why would it? It doesn't discredit his idea in any way, but maybe this is why it's a good reason he stays anon so bitcoin is kept separate from any drama or criticisms that may arise.


But why would it matter? It's just a name and would your life be better of if you knew it? It would probably be a disappointment anywhere and ruins the whole mystery or enigma of him.

Agreed, but there were many people either who tried to grab the attention by saying they were Satoshi or they were given that name by some other popular names who thought that these might be the ones behind... No one really knows who Satoshi is...

I think he will himself come ahead one day and show his face in public... I think Satoshi's anonymity might be because if he comes out, it might be a threat to his life as many enemies are also waiting for him to get out of this industry...

Actually I don't care who Satoshi is
But I became interested when people always try to expose his/her identity
I mean, this is look like a detective story, who tell us so many the suspects everyday  ;D
But, whoever you Satoshi, you da real mpv 8)

Yeah, but most A-list celebrities don't own a little under 10% of what is expected to become a global currency  ;)

I know what you are trying to say.
It's just that most people (if not all) are curious to know.

It's not about discrediting his idea.
It's more about the thought of how all that 1M+ coins would be used if that were the case.

That is because he himself became an enemy.
An enemy of the state.
he totally messed things up for the Federal Reserve  ;)

It is his ideas that matter, the result of his work. It does not matter who he/she or they is or are. It would be nice to know and to know for sure. But just like a lot of things it does not matter who thought of it, it is nice to be appreciated. It is nice to be inspired by Satoshi, or any other person, Tesla, Bell, Edison, Arthur, Jesus. But does it really matter? It is the stories and the results that count today and in the future when the person in question is long gone!

The only guy who can make or break Bitcoin is Satoshi. You can learn a lot about a person's motive by what he says about Satoshi.