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Your right. BitCoin sholudn't have a leader people follow blindly. BitCoin is for everybody, but I'm thinking Steve Jobs, and look how powerful he was. People would buy anything he says.

I think you are overreacting. People will always be people, ready to gossip, talk a lot and to have many conspiracy theories, good or bad ones. That's just in a human nature and I don't think we can escape this. Especially when we don't know who our creator is. I bet this will be hot topic until Bitcoin will exist.

I have noticed though, that many people on this forum believe Nick Szabo really is Satoshi! Quite funny if you ask me! :)

For me , I do not care if satoshi is a man or a woman or a group of developers because he/she did not want to be known so why should I know ?

Would be really funny if he actually ended up being him ;)

I agree, we shouldn't point fingers at people just to have a face to satoshi.

I would also like to point out, that many people on this forum also think Dorian Nakamoto really is Satoshi, as well.
So it doesn't really matter in the long run. Satoshi has fallen into shadow.
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Satoshi will and always shall be a legend. If he isn't the elite plaything then he would never reveal his identity because they would come after him.

One of the few books I've read cover-to-cover three times and keep on-hand: The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip (http://www.amazon.com/The-Math-Gene-Mathematical-Thinking/dp/0465016197)

People would like to believe in anything and call anyone a god when they run into crisis. I think overall it normal or that is what mankind is all about.

I couldn't agree anymore with this sentence

ah come on. , no one believes Dorian is satoshi.  find me one person who thinks that.

At this moment many of the things Nick Szabo is saying, is the truth. Some people here would gladly dismiss him as being Satoshi, because it does not fit their agenda if he was Satoshi. It is true that we currently have a kind of Civil war going on. Gavin was the previous leader, and now he wants back in. Mike Hearn created the revolution to take over control from the Core guys and Gavin is supporting this.

Nick Szabo might not be Satoshi, but his views and the technology he created <Bit Gold> is the closest to what Satoshi had in mind, when he or they created Bitcoin.

We do not want another PayPal. Thanks.

This quote is very inspirational, thank you :)

The same argument can be used the other way round.  Szabo is quoted Satoshi because he made his position clear and this position fits their view.


Nobody here want a new paypal, then what?

In times where there are no true leadership, people will find leadership in the one who bring the truth.  ::)

Nick Szabo is not a media junky and when he speaks, people listen. The podcast was very informative and many people wanted to know where he sided on this matter. We cannot ignore his opinion because he might

not happen to be Satoshi. We have listened to Gavin / Mike / Wladmir / Peter / Andreas and many other and none of it made more sense, than what Nick said in that single podcast.  ;)

Go back to the basics and put Bitcoin first.  ::)  

we will never know who satoshi really is.

Note: When clicking this thread, I thought it was about treating people like money.

Turns out I wasn't too far off.

Anyway, I don't wish to find our bitcoin messiah, I just hope we (the bitcoin community) can learn to handle ourselves. That's what bitcoin stands for, isn't it?

Peer to peer, no centralization. Even when deciding issues. That's the dream.

I quite recently though Szabo was Satoshi but with all the recent Szabo unprofessional post on twitter, it is clear that he is not Satoshi.

How dare you question Chuck Norris!


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Man, going into this thread I thought people had finally realized Satoshi is a Interdimensional Time Traveling AI from the future.  ;D

"Can we quit pretending,"people," are Satoshi?"

I don't think we need to find out who the guy behind bitcoin is really. It is better off people don't know who satoshi is so he doesn't get prosecuted by federal authorities. If we had a bitcoin leader, it would really contradict the open nature of the technology.

What I find very interesting is that it requires a centralized entity in order to direct consensus.


in all seriousness, Chuck Norris aside, I think you guys may be missing the bigger picture here.

Well I guess we give the people a viable and working alternative to PayPal. Something not governed by a single person or a group, who will censor or ban users with lower fees and no charge backs. How does that sound?

Let people decide who they want their Satoshi to be, if that gives them comfort. We do not need to steer them in a direction we want them to follow. ^hmmm^

Satoshi is anon developer who abandoned his project just like all the other devs who make pump and dumps.

Bitcoin is the biggest pump and dump in the history of PnDs,

Good to me. Paypal is around 100 transaction/sec so that would be at least a 15MB block as a start .
This sound more like Satoshi's view than Szabo to me.

bitcoin is nothing compared to stock pump and dumps. beside that, bitcoin is still here while not many expected that at the very beginning of bitcoin. satoshi most likely left as his side of the job was finished.

Like how bitcoin works, satoshi should be left anonymous to everyone. There is an advantage in it and some people don't understand this.

Forever thankful to Satoshi, s/he is a genius for putting this experiment together, but when you look at it s/he basically just put together a bunch of pieces that were already around and possible only now at the time we live in. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.

There's a reason Satoshi decided to remain anonymous.  He didn't want to become a 'Steve Jobs' - He wanted Bitcoin to develop from the efforts of a community, rather than from the mouth of a dictator...

They're just inside jokes of sorts I'm sure. It doesn't matter who Satoshi is, as he is gone and wants to be alone. It is what it is.

I think Satoshi has said everything that needed to be said in the protocol.

Not to the scoop-hungry bloggers and reporters who make a desperate attempt at getting the big hit. You should look around and there will probably be a "Satoshi FOUND!" blog/news article claiming some random guy is Satoshi.

I have long past begun to ignore such articles.

To be honest, I still feel like Satoshi is all of us. He lives within all of us, therefore we all are Satoshi.