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Satoshi nakamoto as we all know is a bitcoin inventor . Well he started it in 2009 and got away from it in 2011 . Why?

And Do you think he will ever come out of his hood so that everyone can see that great person and give a big and and greate salute to that guy?

He probably felt like his work was done and wanted to just dissappear for whatever privacy reasons he had. I doubt he will ever return but it would be cool if he did. Maybe if he won the Nobel Prize for economics he might make an appearance but I still doubt it. would love it he won though.

He's dead.

Bullshit. No one knows what happened (well, maybe some of the devs, but I still doubt that). The thing is, Satoshi benefits from remaining an anonymous figure. What he would gain from massive worldwide fame? Nothing but problems. He is at an ideal position. He is totally anonymous, and he has enough money to live for a lifetime, and with a priceless contribution to mankind.

He has disappeared because he thought this was the best for Bitcoin and for himself personally. Imagine a target on his head if he was known to the world with his stash of 1M bitcoins.

Will he ever show up? Maybe if he will not be dead until then and if he will think that's safe for him to come out of his hiding.

No. And why should he?
He always stayed anonymous because he knew what could happen to him after he let the genie out of the bottle.This is all for safety reasons.He has done what he had to do. For the further path it's up to us, the community and the devs, to make this wonderful technology a wordwide success.

No one could answer this question other than him (Satoshi Nakamoto)... though I doubt he will come out due to security reasons but if ever he decides to finally pop out, then there would be countless medias trying to make interviews with him and wouldn't leave him alone any time soon and maybe that's why he haven't introduced his self to the public, a privacy that he would like to keep which if he decides not to do so, then it's not easy to go back....Most people that really contribute a lot in any matter, are also the ones who are under the radar

Just a question that I do not know about. Did he say goodbye before dissappearing? or it is was just a sudden silence?

Think about it that way...."would you be open about it, knowing you may be fuse to a bomb which can stop financial world and start something like revolution"?

I know so many examples when people buying bitcoin to avoid western union charges and thats well known for other traders on localbitcoins.

Satoshi must be wicked guy, he thought about everything. Like flippin back to the future guy who could see and was able to predict how we and whole world will behave in near future.

no proof, but i can give you that if he was going to reveal his identity he would risk his life for sure

i would not reveal myself either with 1M coins

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-August/010238.html


Last we heard from Satoshi was on August 15th of this year in the midst of Round 1 of Block-size debate.

"I have been following the recent block size debates through the mailing list.  I had hoped the debate would resolve and that a fork proposal would achieve widespread consensus.  However with the formal release of Bitcoin XT 0.11A, this looks unlikely to happen, and so I am forced to share my concerns about this very dangerous fork.

The developers of this pretender-Bitcoin claim to be following my original vision, but nothing could be further from the truth.  When I designed Bitcoin, I designed it in such a way as to make future modifications to the consensus rules difficult without near unanimous agreement.  Bitcoin was designed to be protected from the influence of charismatic leaders, even if their name is Gavin Andresen, Barack Obama, or Satoshi Nakamoto.  Nearly everyone has to agree on a change, and they have to do it without being forced or pressured into it.  By doing a fork in this way, these developers are violating the "original vision" they claim to honour.

They use my old writings to make claims about what Bitcoin was supposed to be.  However I acknowledge that a lot has changed since that time, and new knowledge has been gained that contradicts some of my early opinions.  For example I didn't anticipate pooled mining and its effects on the security of the network.  Making Bitcoin a competitive monetary system while also preserving its security properties is not a trivial problem, and we should take more time to come up with a robust solution.  I suspect we need a better incentive for users to run nodes instead of relying solely on altruism.

If two developers can fork Bitcoin and succeed in redefining what "Bitcoin" is, in the face of widespread technical criticism and through the use of populist tactics, then I will have no choice but to declare Bitcoin a failed project.  Bitcoin was meant to be both technically and socially robust.  This present situation has been very disappointing to watch unfold.

Satoshi Nakamoto"

Email originated from vistomail servers.

Satoshi will never come out of hiding, why would he? He's on of the richest men in the world and his word can make or break Bitcoin. Nobody needs to know who he is, his work is already out there for us all to benefit from.

Blockchain technology is here to stay, 100%! One of the greatest innovations in the 21st century so far, and the man is still a mystery. Why would it be any other way?

What would you guys even say to him if you met?

He's not a bitcoin inventor, he's "THE BITCOIN INVENTOR"!

I don't think he'll ever go public. There's too much risk for him if he did. Countries could try to sue him. People would harass him like a celebrity. He'd never have any privacy. He's probably not even one person...

Not voluntarily.

Quoted for truth.

why he should come out from his hood? even if there is things that need to be changed from his point of view, he can do it fully anonymous so there is no reason to do it.


Agree about this, that's just another one more reason to stay anonymous.

The biggest challenge for him is that most people know the wallet addresses he has with the most coins in them, right? So if he starts to withdrawal from them he people can see it and track it, see where it's going.

In fact there is a way to moove the coins ,people will see the moove but he can easy send all into some exchange and then,withdraw im small parts,we know what he had said he has the ammount ,but maybe he holds more then those 1 milion coins,the reality is that he cant show up and say hi there im here im rich and i can hit badly the industry,credit western union banks countries ,soo why would he do that to die?

He wouldn't.

If I were him I'd want to withdrawal slowly, be able to live off of what I've created. But that seems nearly impossible for him to do, unless he had another wallet beyond that first Million...which I'm sure he did. If he was involved ("publicly") for two years, he had to have many wallets produced to get divvy up his assets.

Hopefully he's able to enjoy some wealth  from his creation, but at least he gets to anonymity, that's priceless.

Maybe he's a she!

He'll eventually have to do something with his coins, unless he wants us only to have 20million coins instead of 21.

How do you guys believe he will go about getting them back into the bitcoin economy? Multiple wallets or not he mined a good sum of blocks, and the coins still remain at the coinbase address.

Let's just leave Satoahi with his/her life now. I think he fairly planned everything thus his non-appearance also has something to fo with what bitcoin is now. Who knows maybe now and then our message of gratidute is being noticed by Satoshi. :)

Ok fine. I am satoshi nakamoto....

happy ?

i shoudnlt be saying this, but i think he died. i mean why else would you not check up on your invention after it has succeeded so nicely for 4years

"They" are still around.

I honestly think, that "the group that created bitcoin" are still around more than what people may think.

i think he is still here around watching us . Watching the fans of bitcoins- A TRUE BITCOIN LOVERS

Will be very pleased to meet him if he comes out.Even if he is any corner of the world i will try to make a search for him maybe :p

Maybe one day, when he/she/the group gets really old.

He didn't get involved in bitcoin development for 4 years. I don't think he will come out again.

Let's hope those coins are lost forever. The fear of them possibly flooding the market would make the price fall hard. Not that it would change how bitcoins work but it would be a problem.

What hood? The hood he is wearing, because he is a superhero or does he live in the hood? <The Bronx>
There is so many discussions on this topic, we just have to fool around with this. As said so many times before, Satoshi Nakamoto should remain hidden forever.

Satoshi represent the people not the person. ^hmf^

i was thinking what prevent satoshi from dumping everything(not now but when the price was 1200, and causing the dump we know about) and then starting another new tech that will kill bitcoin in a near future?

this is a nightmare possibility, essentially he will play the little game of the altcoin creation, but with a great innovation each time

could be another reason why he don't want to reveal himself

Satoshi nakamoto is a famous name always associated with bitcoins. Well, he was the founder of bitcoins currency. But, still people are looking for him, whether he will stay hidden or come out of the hood? Well, it's still not cleared up whether satoshi nakamoto was a single person or a group of persons, if he was a single one, may be he passed away, so seeing him is not possible. If it was a group, at least some members of it may be wandering somewhere and come out some day. We all are excited for seeing him as he/they is/are the almighty God of bitcoins.

I think he'll never come back since his strong identity is a major part of his identity. It's possible that if a major problem happens, he'll come back. But it's also possible that he's one of the Bitcoin developpers and that he never left ;) !

Those first BTC mined will never move... Trust me.
Still we don't know how much Satoshi is hodling. I don't think he stopped mining after that first 1M or so.

He will hide forever if he is still alive. There would be so many illuminati hitmen coming at him. Not to mention all the small countries that already have monetary regulating issues would be peeved as well, probably sending shooters.

Satoshi Nakamoto is still mysterious so nobody know what is reality behind this everybody he is person but it can be just code name or maybe project name so that is why we are still on discussion and giving our opinion about him. :D

He was still active with coding and the community when he stepped out his apartment door,
walked to the corner super market, and was struck down by a vehicle.
The vehicle then took off, and to date, hasn't been located.
Witnesses said the driver was a young woman with two toddlers in the backseat.

Satoshi was declared deceased in Addenbrooke's Hospital on December 13, 2010 at 6:16 pm, GMT.

RIP Mr. Nakamoto

He told his bitcoin colleagues that he had some other business to do and transferred the responsibility to Gavin.

Only person who is going to answer this is Satoshi himself and  no one else. If he feels the need to come back am sure he will do. Hes not been around since the early release and not around now. Or is he an we just dont know it and its being kept quite and private. Who knows only time will tell if the real satoshi will stand up and come back.

we could try smoking him out  ;D

There is no need for Satoshi Nakamoto to reappear as bitcoin God father. He has done his bit. The community has taken over his job.

The big concern is that those person hold a huge ammount of coins,now imagine he moves the funds and sell all.Now imagine him starting a new altcoin and improving it every 3 -6 months making the price go higger and higger till it kill bitcoin,this is possible he made bitcoin ,and he can make something similiar to it and well once again collect a large ammount of coins and pay with the money from sold bitcoins.On that time we would see bitcoin worthing something like 100 to 150 dollars or less.

he won't do that, he loves his precious bitcoin too much

why would he want to shoot his own foot?

once he starts moving his bitcoins lot of traders will get nervous 👍

Yes. What is the point on developing a new alt coin when already having the developed bitcoin.
Satoshi never seems like a money minded. Even he wants more money just waiting will give him more money than doing any kind of alt coin creations.

I highly doubt it is one person which will never come up in public.
But it is not that bad! He will always be remembered by his product.

I hope he (she, they or whatever) will never reveal him self and he will stay anonymous forever. Bitcoin is community money (yes, for me it is money), we all own it and in my opinion it is best to inventor stay anonymous.

Do you really think no one knows? I'm sure some ppl know, its just not made public.  Do you think if NSA or FBI did not want to find him/her/them they wouldn't be able to do it? Just cross referencing logs on IPS or routers with posts, tor exit nodes logs, or accounts made for the bictoin could be big clue. Data mining all the surveillance data, emails, communications, phone conversations that NSA is storing wouldn't result in anything? Its hard to believe. If so, what's the point of surveillance anyway.  

Agreed, and I believe the privacy reason is a big important thing for him. Because he has the potential to get a Nobel Prize, who in the world don't want to get a Nobel Prize??? It definitely was a serious privacy(or any other reason) problem, that's why he never came out.

Isn't it time we stop searching and asking questions about Satoshi Nakamoto?? What's the point?? He made bitcoin, he was an inventor, manier inventors who invented other things are dead too, you read about them and that's it, stop debating on these mindless questions and just move on. It doesn't matter if he's dead/alive/hiding/whatever.

Satoshi has been nominated to receive the Nobel Prize award in economics. I guess if he doesn't come out now to receive this reward He never will...

All of those old addresses still exist with the many, many coins totally untouched & unmoved. I'm not convimced either way but it is possible that he's dead.

Moving those coins would make him dead.
I don't think he's dead at the moment. He's now living the dream and we know nothing about it :D

They're trying that with the Nobel Prize bullshit.

i doubt that, people keep track of his wallet addresses and if he spent any money from that, people would freak out and it would be all over the media.
He's either dead or has no intentions of using those coins, its been 6years he would have moved them by now.

Maybe Satoshi Nakamoto is one of us but we just don't know.

Maybe he was a 15 years old kid that was really smart :P or he came from the future xD.

But I don't know is better we don't know about his life. And just move on. And get more BTC :D

Questions to $1 million. Not only for me but for everyone. Because don't exist even one more data (as I know) about all that you want to know. He is disappeared without giving even one reason or excuse (have no need to do the last one but only to satisfy or inform its followers). He has the first initiator of the invention of bitcoin (with "White Paper"). Then he continued to collaborate with other developers on the bitcoin software until the middle of the year 2010. In this time he give the source code repository and network alert key of bitcoin and blockchain to Gavin Andresen (the actual promoter of the new bitcoin XT), transferred several related domains to various prominent members of the bitcoin community and disappeared.

If he will be live someday? There are only one sure answer. Only him know this. If it was only one person and not a group of people as it is told sometimes by several people.

He's back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAcOnvOVquo&feature=youtu.be&t=8603

For those who were wondering if he would come back during times or turmoil and confusion, well, you have your answer. Segwit is a disastrous path of destruction, and Satoshi has come back to save us all from this toxic bitcoin subversion attempt.

it's no bearing. Even he will show up right nobody believe in him. It's like an AIR you can not see it but you can feel it. His presence is already in the blockchain. let's just do our thing educating people about BITCOIN.

I see a lot of mentions of this video, but it's down.

from the very beginning,since satoshi nakamoto created bitcoin, he is anonymous and remain anonymous until now. He has a reason for it and lets just trust that reason. But if ever satoshi come out on the open I am one of the person who would want to see him on person.

I think it is because he want to prove that bitcoin is totally anonymous if the users know how to use bitcoin properly. As you can see, BTC-e founder has been caught and many people doubt that bitcoin is not anonymous and users can still be caught. But they are wrong. It has been 9 years since bitcoin was created and no one knows who Satoshi really is. Therefore, this is a good way to make more people believe in bitocin

What a very good question. He would not come out of his "hoodie" because he is a hacker. Toshi is a great guy, he is 24 years of age, skinny guy. Toshi doesn't go online anymore because he already told his girlfriend to take care of their btcs. He lives just right across the street.

I'm just kidding, obviously... but have you guys thought about somebody who is already revealing himself but no one believes that he is he?

I'm hoping that if he does decide to come out of retirement and spend his coins, he does it sooner rather than later.  When tens of thousands of btcs start moving after being dormant for years, it will affect the price substantially and interrupt the bitcoin ecosystem.  It would be a huge problem whenever it happens, but if bitcoin was worth ten times what it is today, it would be an even bigger problem for stability.

We all hope he reconsider his decision and show up somehow but on a second thought I think his security is more important than anything else and so I understand if doesn't ever show up again.

Hoping Satoshi to come over is not reasonable since there is no real person "Satoshi" on the earth. It was probably a group of people who developed the blockchain and bitcoin infrastructure.

i dont think think so. he didnt need to be famous because of being famous it will only cause problem into his own life and thats pretty bad idea. Hes a genius for not showing his identity and live in a safe live and take those huge bitcoin value.

His work here is already done and if he chooses to come out of the hood it will have to be another pseudonymous name to protect himself.
Another reason I find his vanishing to be valid is bitcoin is built on a decentralized system which is currently functioning well and i do not think we need him to save us out of any crypto trouble.

I will have to take a different view about the thought that Satoshi is a group of people because even on the forum, there is  a username by that and have contributed immensely to discussions about bitcoin that even senior members of the forum have left some amount of feedback for him, so if its a group of person, does that mean several people are running the account or one person is the spokesperson of the group. Either way, I don't think he is her coming out that issues like hardfork happen and he  didn't, then I doubt if anything else can bring him out.

Am sure made some bitcoins for himself and if he comes out right now, he will be made to pay lots of taxes and he may even be accused of money laundering, even though he himself isn't involved, just because people use his creation to do these things he termed as an accessory in many cases involving bitcoins, It's prudent that he lay low and never come out after all fame drug people down.

Now it's of no use. When it was recently found that satoshi nakamoto is the person who created bitcoin i was really eager to know who it would really be but now it haa been a long time and like me many people have lost the hype of knowing who satoshi really is. We live in a world where not everything is true so even if he reveals i won't believe it

We don't even know whether satoshi is alive or not.If he is alive,still he might have found comfortable in hiding his identity because of fear of his security.He has created such a currency which has challenged the governments and also bankers and they are able to do nothing against it.So,its better for him to live a hidden life otherwise his life would be even compromised.