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What do you think?

Satoshi is the ultimate example to show bitcoin is anonymous.

Why didn't you list Hal Finney, or Nick Szabo, or Dave Kleiman, or any of the other folks who've been identified as plausible candidates?

To keep it simple... I think these two persons are the most obvious choices.

Why do you want to know? I know, I know; I'm about to use the most overused response, but here it is: Satoshi went anonymous for a reason, and I'm sure he doesn't appreciate you guys trying to sniff him out. He would have had one heck of a reason to want to stay incognito instead of the claim to fame of inventing bitcoin.

I think neither of them is Satoshi for onus to prove their claim that they are Satoshi is on them and none has proved it yet

I think its my Mother... 8)

Well that's complete nonsense.

Heck, I'm a better choice than Dorian.

I don't understand what the point behind such threads is. The theories that those two people are Satoshi were disproved, and basically nobody really knows who Satoshi is (or was) at this time.

My cat is a better choice than both.

Neither, it doesn't really matter at this point. She is probably dead too

Fucking dick head neubie.

Voted for noone cause i don't belive that this guys can be a Satoshi also i am not really care about it. Why people hyping so much about Satoshi? Tell me please.

Not sure why we only have 2 persons to choose from. The list should include all possible candidates that over the years people have been guessing and talking about.

satoshi was anonymous and is anonymous and will be anonymous
like it or not if he/she/they wanted to reveal his/her/their identity, would have done it a long time ago. so you should all respect the privacy of satoshi and get on with your life and stop wanting to make satoshi a god.


i'll vote for Hal any day of the week over all those other people!

Who cares?!

It is/was just a human. People overestimate him so much, let's stop with this shit.

People like you are the reason people like Craig Wright attempts such BS
as he knows there are many gullible people like yourself, that only belive crap they read in the media.

You are an idiot.
Its on the internet so it must be true.


One strange question we should be asking, is how come the actual 2 most likely candidates are already dead ?

I don't get it why people keeps unveiling satoshis' identity.
The guy wanted to be left anonymous so why won't people just let it be?
What could possibly you get if you knew who is satoshi?

Satoshi Nakamoto is the founder of bitcoin,man behind bitcon,he is bitcoin creator,he hide his identity for the security reason,just like people who have so much money,he also worry about his security.
not bad right?another verson of satoshi nakamoto ;D

I think its not a one person its a group or a team or developers.. i never heard any about satoshi nakamoto..
But i saw some people they are acting like satoshi nakamoto but they are fake..

You should add dave kleiman.

Although I think satoshi might have been a team.

I have read a post of satoshi nakamoto and he said there that he is not Dorian Nakamoto. And bitcoin is not a one-man project the developers made.
They are compose of many. But they are still hiding themselves and doesn't want people to know them personally.

i guess majority for OP poll is Neither because till now nobody know that who is Satoshi Nakamoto even some people has admitted that he is Satoshi Nakamoto but personally i don't trust them because they was never showing strong proof regarding this

I think Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym of a group of people and not a single individual. But the big question at the moment is who owns the private keys to the 1 million Bitcoins. Is there really a secret trust entrusted with looking after the Satoshi legacy?

To be honest, I think the private key might have likely been discarded, or is safe (in a safe) and won't be touched anytime soon. Chances are there is nothing there and there are no secrets hidden within the wallet, but there could be secrets hidden in other places, somewhere.

The point of the thread is to see what is the view of this forum's users on Satoshi's identity.

I am surprised that 15 % of the users that voted (at the time of writing this) considers Craig to be a viable candidate for Satoshi, although he has been caught presenting fabricated evidence and declines to present independently verifiable evidence  to support his claims.

I feel certain sympathy for Satoshi apparently wanting to stay away from publicity, but I guess it is human curiosity to want to know who he is.

I think there was a team behind him... and both Craig and Dorian are absolutely not correlated with Satoshi ;)

i think neither,  dorian nakamoto is obviously not satoshi. and craig wright is a con man, you should add dave kleiman.

I think he is a human being who invented bitcoin  ;D

It really doesn't matter who Satoshi Nakamoto is but, of course, it's still interesting to speculate. Contrary to many others I don't think that S. N. is a pseudonym for a team. IMO S. N. is (or was) a single person. That he never touched his fortune in years strongly indicates that there is no team involved but rather a single player. There are many possible reasons that the coins were never touched again. The explanation could be even something simple like a broken harddisk, a lost USB-Stick or a forgotten password. But there is also the possibility that S.N. died without leaving any instructions to his heirs.

i said Neither


Like many here I believe it was a team of people all working
together

satoshi could be part of every ones name?  acronym etc.

I believe that Satoshi himself wrote the first white paper and then received a lot of help getting it off the ground.
If it was started by a group from day 1 it would be hard to keep everyone quite for so long, most groups talk eventually.

It has gotten too late for most of the community to really care much at all anymore.
Craig has released no great proof yet so im not buying into it.

I cant believe why you added Dorian to the list, there were many other names you could have choosen unless it was a joke.

Their could not have been many full nodes when the first few transaction were sent so is there anyway to track down at least the general area Satoshi was in when sending?

none of them are satoshi because none of them could ever provide any proof of being satoshi, and actually i think Hal Finney has better chance of being satoshi than anybody else has.
also i think satoshi is a group of programmers and not just one person.

agree with the not just one person but a group of programmers

I think satoshi not a person but refers to a large company. But it is not important to know the identity of the person who does not want known by the public, we need to respect their privacy as well. thank you :)

He is anonymous, for all we know he is already dead lol.

Neither Dorian Nakamoto   or Craig Wright!

Dorian Nakamoto is the satoshi nakamoto meme :)

I think whoever can sign the address in the Genesis block is Satoshi. No one has done that so we will never know.

Neither of them might be, but it doesn't seem to be a group. Even if its a group, surely particular persons name is represented because he might be the initiator. If its a group then they could have mentioned only Satoshi or Nakamoto.

As I don't like Craig Wright and I find he is a douche. He might have something to do with the creation of bitcoin.
Maybe he was part of bigger team of scientists who worked on this idea together?
I think this hypothesis is certainly more believable than anything we have at this point.

i think that we still did not found the real satoshi nakamoto and that the creator of bitcoin will never be found as satoshi must have been a great programmer if he managed to create bitcoin so he surely made himself impossible to be revealed

in my opinion we shouldnt even search for him if he did not want to be revealed that means he shouldnt be, though thats just my opinion and my ideas on what should be done

I think it's me lol

Actually, everybody's wrong....Satoshi Nakamoto was created by a group of people who did not even know one another.  They inadvertently created the concept of a ledger while working on other problems and their discovery was picked up by a group of cypherpunks who were more competent cryptologist....and bitcoin just took off under their influence.  

They were working on this problem which lead to the concept of a distributed ledger:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11595

The last puzzle was this (it has never been solved):

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16148

This is Satoshi's photo (there's still a $1000 bounty for finding him somewhere):

http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/cardimages/1/256/image.png

The game ended in June of 2007....around the same time Bitcoin was being created.....Hmmmm!

Here's more:

https://soundcloud.com/listentothispodcast/findsatoshi


"Intelligent one" or "wise one," Satoshi; "central" or "centered," Nakamoto.  

Surname first, as is custom: "Central" Nakamoto "Intelligence" Satoshi.  Central Intelligence!

Have fun....LOL


EDIT: The guy in the photo above has a passphrase that he will give to whoever finds him....we don't know what this phasephrase unlocks!

Obviously, you guys aren't the only ones thinking that Satoshi is just one person. I mean, managing all these with be quite hard for a person even if he sacrifices the amount of sleep into his dedication to improve the system.

Maybe we should stop finding Satoshi. When he feels bored by the lack of news about him, he will come out to sign the private key!

another question and poll about Satoshi Nakamoto,its hard to answer because we dont have any official thread or media that give us trusted informations,its mean i think neither as satoshi nakamoto,its just a name that given by bitcoin creator.

I think that both are really far away from the real satoshi identity. But probably yes he (they are) is a "team" not only one can create and thinking all btc in one mind!


we can't know. maybe if he can post something in 2100 just to clarify this aspect of "legendary" character.

By 2100 he, or if it was a team, they, will all be dead unfortunately, unless they leave some sort of encrypted, self-revealing message that has a timelock and only reveals in 100 years, but the OP locktimeverify didn't exist back then so this is not possible...

why people not believe that Dorian Nakamoto is Satoshi nakamoto?i believe it because google say like that ;D
but honestly i hope bitcoin creator not just one,its should a team,and each team member can give any explain why they hiding from media.

Often something is getting arose to know the true satoshi. What I think is let him be safe rather than coming to the public and facing problems created against him by different governments.

My cat is satoshi nakamoto, but that was not an option in the poll

who cares?

Even if we did know who it was, what can you benefit from knowing. Personally, I like how he/she kept themselves anonymous, i think its pretty cool

As long as he does nothing (including not using his coins) I guess there is zero chance to find who Satoshi is. So its only his decission whether world find outs the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto or not.

Neither of them it was a great help that they build bitcoin and satoshi for us. It was our pleasure to say thank you to them for creating such a beautiful artwork for us to us and earn make profit with it. It was so difficult to find like this to earn and make some living thanks to them. Just be thankful for what they did for us.  :D

Neither, i don't think that someone of this people can be Satoshi Nakamoto and also i don't really care who is Satoshi but i am glad that he make bitcoin for us.

I thought that they a group not only a one person.. and still now there is no proof that they are satoshi nakamoto.
And i think satoshi nakamoto right now is hiding because he is hunting by other thieves. so its imposible to know who is the real satoshi.

Satoshi Nakamoto is the founder and creator of bitcoins.
though some of the bitcoins enthusiast they said satoshi is the community or a people
who believe in Bitcoins. :D

For me, it's a group of individuals. I have my doubts with the people who've already come out as Satoshi Nakamoto because there isn't as much proof to really verify those claims. If those so called people were to be "Satoshi...", you would think that they would have a good provable stack of documentation whilst developing the coin to prove it.

I believe the moniker of Satoshi is sort of like Anonymous in the sense of it being an "idea" and that idea stemming from a certain group but then acts almost fully decentralized in action.

Satoshi Nakamoto is none other than the founder and creator of why Bitcoins exist,  the unknown identity but very popular because of digital currency he made....  The man of Fame of all times. ;) :D

He is a hero ;D

We don't know who he/she is yet but lets keep it that way. Knowing his identity can only do harm to the bitcoin itself,so he is a great inventor and has invented the best currency in my opinion so far. Claimers like Craig Wright has not done any good to the bitcoin, they wanted just some fame.
I voted on Neither and lets keep it this away, its beautiful to know its creator is anonymous.

agreed :D satoshi nakamoto he is my hero ,
i dont need working every morning to office lmao its the suck life before i know about bitcoin  ;D ;D

these (Dorian and Craig) are two of the worst choices...

I voted neither because I don't think the voting options u gave us r Satoshi Nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto was most likely a group

~CfA~

I do not which one I have to choose but after the latest news about Craigh I must say that I believe him a sort of.
Its of course still not proven but I think he is the man behind the bitcoin itself.

I agree. It needs many proofs to claim as Satoshi. Besides, why should Satoshi be anynomous at first and want to be famous at last? it doesn't make any sense to me.

The real question should be why do you care?  I think it is a good think not to know who the real developer is and that this secrete should die with him/her/them.  They did something good for the world and they may not want anyone to know who they are and why they did it.  There also may be other people out there that believe that him/her/they built a back door into the system.  These people may want to hurt them to find this out.  I say leave them be and look towards the future.

i have no idea about this that who is he. actually there is not a single person who have a valid proof that he personally met to him. so i think we cannot conclude any thing about him.

While we may not know who he (or she) was, we know what he did. Satoshi Nakamoto was the inventor of the bitcoin protocol, publishing a paper via the Cryptography Mailing List in November 2008. There have been some people who claim to be Satoshi; but in my opinion i don't really think Satoshi would want to be known by anyone.

Until now Satoshi Nakamoto is still mysterious who really he/she is.  And many of the people declaring themselves that they are Satoshi nakamoto but true is only a false declaration for themselves. But for what matter most now is there is community who love and believing in bitcoins, and that communities who love bitcoins is the real Satohi's. ;D :D

Neither of them in my opinion, they just wish to get some attention. My personal opinion is that Satoshi Nakamoto is team of people, its hard to make all this alone. Maybe one man had an idea for all this, but he made it real with friends and colleagues.
Maybe we will find out the truth one day, like for 20, 30 years. From time to time I think that some big secret agency stand behind all this, or some big company. I know it sound a bit stupid, but when I start to imagine about beginning of all this I get some strange ideas in my head, and in some moments anything can be possible truth.

i vote neither,
my logic says it was a group, since there was no mistakes on the whitepaper and my conspiracy theory instict says CIA or NSA ,
(Satoshi Nakamoto, which roughly means "Central Intelligence" in Japanese.) or NSA because of SHA256  ??? 8) 8)
go find out now ...!  :D

I also vote neither.  Dorian was merely an accidental name collision.  CW, if he were Satoshi, wouldn't have had any trouble proving his identity.  That one almost got farcical at the end with that "I can't take the pressure" letter.  Both were sorta lol.

I guess people mostly voted for neither, because nobody can know, who Satoshi is. That's the way he/she/they wants/want it to be

yes i have also voted for neither like many others who voted.
I dont this it was dorian because he has no proof for that one.So neither is a better choise because no body proved it.