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Why did Satoshi hide his identity? Has anyone seen Satoshi in real life?
Is Satoshi one person? Or is it a community?

the entity using the satoshi pseudonym is one person. that is established.

however satoshis idea's are a patchwork of many older concepts that alone would not work but satoshi was the brainchild of patching it all together into something that works. plus adding his own customisations and extra tweaks to it. which made it special and unique

also satoshi, worked with other people. that is established. but only the single entity used the satoshi pseudonym. all the rest helping out used their own pseudonyms.

OP, ask yourself: if you invented competition to the traditional banking and monetary system, would you like your identity to be known?


Any conclusive investigations regarding if he was indeed a single entity or not?

his identity is a secret even after 8years for bitcoin usage, people still didnt able to find satoshi and i don't thing we really try to find satoshi he left bitcoin for some reason which according to him is nessacary. bitcoin is changing the way we looks into the economics of our country, people almost started using money for specified list of usage and we forget what was the true potential of money. bitcoin emmerged with hard and coplexity but it also rewards us the clearity of vision. if you are a bitcoiner then you are one of the intelligent human species who really understands things not just use it like dummy

because people have talked to him via email, on forums and IRC during 2008-2010. people have also analysed his written messages and all are saying it was one person using that pseudonym.
and yes this also means he was a sane person with no multiple personality disorders.

but like i said other people with other paeudonyms helped him develop and debug bitcoin.

Correct, which indicated he most likely is/was a single person :)

Satoshi is the one who laid the foundation for such a technology. For a long he was found active in the forum, and in a short he was missing and only very few knew his identity. Several years has passed and as none is sure of the identity, people used to mention top developers as Satoshi.

There could be a lot of reasons why he never revealed his identity, there is a philosophy of which I don't remember the name that states that you must benefit mankind without looking for personal recognition or financial gain, maybe satoshi was a follower of that philosophy.

Not only that, presumabely the first reason for him to hide is identity is because he is holding a big amount of coins, and without privacy everyone would seek him to kill him and steal his funds, his life would be at danger


This do not prove that he was alone, there could be other that were helping it, but he was just the central authority of the group of coders/designer?

All knows that he is the creator of bitcoin but he had kept himself hidden from the world may be because if any of the reason.

May be he have fear of getting arrest for developing such technology
May be he will be targeted by terrorists or evil guys and could demand money
May be he is trying to show us surprise before his death
He might be death(which  I don't want to happen) etc etc

The leader of digital revolution trying to change the concept of human race daily life, giving freedom to people to be their own banks.
He left online community in fear of his life.

one of the people who fought important in the development of bitcoin is satoshi, in fact, it can be said that satoshi is the father of bitcoin. if bitcoin does not hide himself, maybe he thought that he could damage the balance bitcoin, and maybe if satoshi disappear, then the bitcoin balance can be maintained. but I am sure, though satoshi disappeared, she can control the bitcoin from behind the screen.

Someone who wouldn't want Bitcoin to be developed would find him first... But yes, that's a reasonable hypothesis too.


My point, exactly...

If i was this guy i would do the same and not telling my identity. The bitcoin surely attracts some haters, and when it's about money people are ready to do anything to protect their bread. Including gov., lobby, organizations, ect. We have thousands of exemple already
On top of that, i don't see how it could be important or what it could make bitcoin different

Hon'ble Mr. Satoshi is the creator of blockchain algorithm and the bitcoin which has changed the course of internet payment system. I truly want he lives a great life and away from all the worries. If he revels himself, all the enforcement agencies will be after him for making minable money. Because government don't want the money to be distributed freely to their people.

So I want him to remain hidden and have a peaceful life.

the bitcoin system requires many different field expertise. it would be funny to expect a single person to be an expert in so many different areas.
to me, satoshi comprise from people with different areas of expertise.

I believe he has his reason to hide his identity and he could be the only one to answer the real reason why he is in hiding any other thing we might say or write will only be some guessing. For me, I think its better that way because if someone had produce something that is "ANONYMOUS" how are we suppose to believe that if he is just around for us to see couple with the popularity that the project has been able to amass over the years...

Couple of Secret Gov organizations teamed up to pretend to be Satoshi.
That is why they can't find the guy , it is not a single person.

Example the BTC Genesis Block was not created on a single standard PC.

Satoshi has over ~1.5 Million BTC that not even 1 has been sold, that is a lot of money for 1 person to refrain from accessing.

Plus even when his creation is being split in 2 by the bickering of the BTC community , he remains silent.

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FYI: Foretold back in 1988
https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/flashback-1988-get-ready-for-a-world-currency-by-2018%E2%80%B3-the-economist-magazine/

No one knows for sure who is Satoshi Nakamoto
Yes I agree some reason here that Satoshi have a reason why did he hide his identity

I am sure that nobody knew his identity not even Gavin Andresen.There is thing called privacy and he really wanted that and so is the reason he hid his identity and he really wanted the focus to be on the coin rather than speculating about the genious of the inventor and he might have thought that mystery would certainly hype his invention .

Google:  Craig Wright

Craig Wright is our man, if he can't do it, nobody can.

I used to think that too until Wright came along.  Unless Wright is a fake.

And where do you get 1.5 million Bitcoins from?  That number keeps growing.  The highest I've heard is 1.1 million, which is enough to crash Bitcoin if Satoshi ever decides to dump it all.

There was one assumption : to support the decentralization characteristics of bitcoin ecosystem, Satoshi wanted to go anonymous so that only consensus will decide any change/update in bitcoin ecosystem not a single authority.

Interestingly, bitcoin system managed to survive and to be successful with pure decentralized environments after Satoshi went inactive.

If Satoshi is just one person I'm not surprised that he doesn't want to reveal his identity. Besides some fame and glory this would probably give him a lot of troubles. So, we will probably never know his true identity and he will enjoy the fortune and fruits of his work in secrecy. Good for him.

For me, it's weird that Satoshi basically disappeared. If I remember correctly he never withdraws any coins from his publicly known accounts and he isn't active on the forum either. I'm starting to think that some serious thing happened.
 a) He cares about his privacy a lot.
 b) He has some mental issues and is scared to reveal anything about himself.
 c) He was forced (by some government, ...) to not reveal his identity and pretend he is not active.
 d) He is dead.

I will be very pleased if he posts just one message on this forum. I know it won't help Bitcoin at all if he reveals his identity. However, I care about him as a person. I just want to know if he is alive.

From the hypothetical reasons you mentioned a) and d) seem to be the most possible scenarios.
I don't believe that he was force by someone to leave, at the time of his disappearance bitcoin was not big at all, it was minor project, and BTC was worth fracture of its current value.
Someone would have to be a clairvoyant to force satoshi to leave at that time.

ُSatoshi made bitcoin blockchain and infrastructure in resemblance to the universe and an ecosystem with a circle instead of usual pyramid where those on top get every thing. I believe he is active and never left the community and is contributing using several accounts here.

Seriously if someone finds a water well in a desert, he shouldn't sit on top of it and claim the water, what Satoshi did was the best thing for bitcoin because he did his part and the rest is for people to have.

we know nothing about satoshi nakamoto.

probably one of bitcoin users has meet satoshi but probably he does not know it.

satoshi is assumed as one person, but we do not know whether it is right or not.

the thing is, we do not really know his identity. that's all.

Satoshi is unknown and he created bitcoin for an unknown purpose, possibly bitcoin is an experiment if blockchain technology works. The reason why he hide his identity is not clear, possibly he had realized later in time that hiding his identity is not a good idea and later he showed himself in public and nobody would believe that he is Satoshi. But whatever reason it maybe I thank him for creating bitcoin. Bitcoin changed my life thanks to Satoshi.

Yup knowing that his invention will soon be well known , maybe he really wants a peaceful life. Same in his invention identity of bitcoin users is not as much as necessary in transactions. His invention makes it more unique and interesting because of it. His invention reflects him. Wanting privacy and having security in transactions.

Wright is nothing but a tax dodger, if he had access to the Satoshi's BTC , he would cash out.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-we-know-guess-how-many-BTC-are-owned-by-Satoshi


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Satoshi created bitcoins as a decentralised currency and he wished to free people from banking sectors. Bitcoin has become the worst nightmare for most of bankers and governments. He might have thought he would face a safety issue from such people and he decided to hide his identity.

- Because as bitcoin is meant to be used anonymously he may be trying to establish an example of anonymity himself  ;)
- May be many have meet him but nobody seem to have meet him as an inventor of bitcoin.
- May be one person because if it was a group it will be hard for them to remain anonymous.

Yes and no. I guess Satoshi would have led a big team but none of team members would have contacted each other, their only point of contact must have been Satoshi. This way, I guess it would be easy for Satoshi to go anonymous completely with his all team members.

Like many experts conclude, Satohshi's decision was right as it has not impacted bitcoin ecosystem in any ways.

His decision to remain anonymous have saved bitcoin from getting dumped to pennies and i can't remain out of fear that if someone reveal himself it may become disaster for bitcoin/price.

Satoshi was active on this forum and other Cryptography forums, until Gavin was approached by the US Government, then
Satoshi just went quite. This is where all the conspiracy theories started, that he was assassinated or murdered for his coins and all that nonsense.

I think Satoshi is a group of people, and one of them died. < We know who he is >

I think they might have exposed themselves, but then they saw what happened with Dorian Nakamoto < media circus > and they just decided to stay hidden.  

Until now nobody know who's Satoshi or Nakamoto is? And even for a decades come none of the member in this industry will never never find out who really the creator of bitcoin. But it does not matter at all, At least many people around the world thru his master piece which is Bitcoin changed the life"s of many especially in financial aspect and technology.

Because nobody else has the balls to say it, I will. You're a motherfuckin' asshole! By your post history it's clearly obvious that you start threads with this newbie account so to have a thread to reply to with your other accounts participating in sig campaigns.

The basic questions you asked above could've easily been found via Google by a second grader, but here you are asking them in spite of knowing which way is up in this space according to your post history.

TBC, in case you missed it because you may be as dense as a rock, GO FUCK YOURSELF!

Bruno

PS: Does anybody know what a blockchain is?

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Vlad's back on my radar.  :P :P :P

Satoshi seems to be the one who stood as the mastermind when for the technology which is now been popularized by his followers. If its a community then we too a are members of it.

Bitcoin is already popular. Are you hinting at another "technology"? 

it is very simple satoshi is the biggest proof of bitcoin anonymity.

we all know bitcoin is not completely anonymous but this shows us that if you want, you can reach a level to be completely anonymous when using bitcoin.

And because nobody else has the balls to say it, I will. You're a motherfuckin' asshole! By your post history it's clearly obvious that you start threads with this newbie account so to have a thread to reply to with your other accounts participating in sig campaigns.

The basic questions you asked above could've easily been found via Google by a second grader, but here you are asking them in spite of knowing which way is up in this space according to your post history.

TBC, in case you missed it because you may be as dense as a rock, GO FUCK YOURSELF!

Bruno

PS: Does anybody know what a blockchain is?

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Vlad's back on my radar.  :P :P :P

You figured out who Satoshi is?  So who is it, Wright or me?  ;D

One of the points of Bitcoin is to be anonymous. Why would the creator go against this? There are a lot of reasons that Satoshi doesn't want to reveal himself. A lot of people dislike having so much attention on them, maybe he is that kind of person. But the main reason is probably that he is scared for his life. He could get arrested, or someone could take him as a hostage and demand his coins. At worst, he could get killed. I doubt that he will ever reveal himself, he is very smart and I doubt he will change and show everyone who he is.

You misunderstood the intent of my humor, bud. I was alluding to you being on my radar as being the OP given that have a sig resembling participating in a sig campaign in re the discontent expressed, not truly believing that you and the OP are one and the same. <damn Romanians! you have to explain everything to them>

There's a lot of reason why he hide his identity maybe because may affect his self or get an issue by government in his legality by making that but its not really the reason. Maybe anyone could see him already buy doesn't he is satoshi.  And for me Satoshi is a person but he has a people for making research paper called bitcoin.

I don't know who Satoshi is or what community he represents but if he hid his identity then he did that for a good course perhaps to create the tension around Bitcoin in order to promote its popularity and usage all over the world. It's really strange his identity is yet unknown knowing he has so much coins available in his wallet and that's the spark that draws people to bitcoins.

Haha.  I can be a bit slow at times.  I'm not the OP - I already know who Satoshi is.   :P

It is better for satoshi to not reveal his identity if that "Craig Wright" is fake as he can do whatever he can to his stacked bitcoins and use it on his real life spending people will go to him and probably ruin his life because many will extort or the bad thing is he can be killed for that as some people are not into bitcoin and they hated it.

He might be the shy type person. :D Unlike Ironman he didnt tell who he is just for fame or whatever reason and maybe he is here now just lurking in the shadows.
That is a good move though leaving what you left as questionable and so no one will think someone is in control or he is controlling it. We just have to let it go now. Maybe someday he will come out.

By being one of the first people to think about a crypto-currency concept it doesn't mean he will make a fortune with that.

It's like if we will call China as a "paper potency" only because they invented the paper.

Satoshi Nakamoto are all the Bitcoin developers. But if you want names Dorian Nakamoto and Hal Finney are the possible ones.

If he reveals his identity he would be the Tesla of the 21st Century (Government would be against him).

My point exactly. The major advantage of Bitcoin is Total Anonymity. I think Satoshi or his group of developers want to prove that point. And if everyone knows he is then it is not good for his life as Many governments would want him to shut down or make him do changes in Bitcoin as they want.

We will never know who is Satoshi. Maybe it is because he do not want to be famous or he have already gone. He is really a genius who has brought us together at here, discuss about many things related to his invention. I think that he is very happy right now when he know how Bitcoin has helped people

Walk your talk, I think this is the reason why Satoshi disappear. One of the reason why  Bitcoin is created is for  anonymity. Who knows that untouched Bitcoin might be the reward of who ever broke the anonymity of Satoshi and identified him/them. As what bitcoin said, Bitcoin promotes anonymity,  If ever Satoshi is identified then Bitcoin failed on this area :)

So now he is a she? :)

in fact, I do not know who it satoshi. but, of several documentary films that I watch, satoshi is the person who launched the bitcoin. maybe now he has a lot of bitcoin. he suddenly disappeared without cause, but I also believe that there is a reason why he disappeared.

Satoshi had to hide as to make sure his identity was not  revealed,  had he not done so, his life would have been he'll, you can only imagine the no of Bitcoin he would have. People would threaten his life to claim the coins. Secondly even if he escaped people, do you think the government agency would let him leave in peace, he would have been unnecessary harresed under various pretexts, and it would have been a miserable life. And you think the bank industry would have left him so easily, imagine all the authorities pouncing on him. He was wise enough never to come out and reveal, he knew the perils of him doing so. Put yourself in his shoes, would you really have revealed yourself to the world. Respect his choice, he did it to protect himself and his family. Op I found a link which you could also have found, don't really know who that guy is but read the line a strong leader for btc in start would have been a liability for btc. I think op if you read the links and comments it's should answer you.
http://timothyblee.com/2014/03/06/why-satoshi-worked-so-hard-to-hide-his-identity/

Everything has its reason, in such a way Satoshi too has got some reason for hiding himself though his technology has made several good as well bad mysteries around the world. Sometimes if his identity got revealed, some impact could have felt on bitcoin.

The Bitcoin technology itself is a threat to governments so if he doesn't hide his identity the government might sue him for anything that they find wrong or the worst case is force him to do things on bitcoins protocol . And to be honest being famous and recognizable by everyone is not really just a good thing . Satoshi might even do a bunch of interviews which is tiring and those people who just publish anything that they can might make up stories about him . No wonder satoshi didn't reveal himself  :D

we know that satoshi is the father of the developers of cryptocurrency..... as bitcoin is the most popular and widely used cryptocurrency ever......
but the reason that he hides his identity according to my toughts are that he has the fair of arresting by government officials because bitcoin is the type of currency which kills income tax and can be used as money laundaring ...... maybe there are other many reasons like he has the fair of some terrorist that they may demands him for some money..... like this

I think at first it was just one person, but then probably more people were needed to make the project more solid, and maybe they have decided to give the name Satothi to the group. However, unless Satoshi himself decides to appear to give more information about it, it will always be difficult to know for sure. With regard to hiding the identity, I think it was done for privacy and security reasons.

Is anyone believe Craig Wright is the real person behind Satoshi Nakamoto? Actually i dont believe. Why he didnt show himself at the begining?

I think Satoshi is a genius and deep paranoiac man. Maybe woman. Business man can not invention to this great idea. He/she a genius who loves the numbers i believe.

The other thing that i heard it is a group who make bitcoins and its experimented by ths group that they are not expecting that they will get benefits because of the price increase and use by many illegal activity before..  since no one are knows well about satoshi they did not know if its a group or not.
I just saw the old account of satoshi and i think they are group and i think he can not make only one person to make a bing program like this..

I think it's Wright.  He's gonna have to move his million+ coins to prove it at this point.

Satoshi definitely has a thing for numbers.  :)

All I know is Satoshi Nakamoto is a person who created bitcoin. He hides his identify to protect himself from government authorities because we know that other users use BTC in illegal activities which is wrong. It seems I missed a lot, please correct me if I'm wrong.

We may now know who Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, is. According to Newsweek, he’s a reclusive 64-year old Japanese man who lives in Temple City, California. And Satoshi Nakamoto is his real name. (He has reportedly denied being involved with Bitcoin.)
Newsweek portrays Nakamoto as secretive, reclusive and a little paranoid. And certainly the awkward scene when Leah McGrath Goodman confronted Nakamoto in his driveway suggests that the man is genuinely uninterested in seeking the spotlight.

if you want to read more here is the link "http://timothyblee.com/2014/03/06/why-satoshi-worked-so-hard-to-hide-his-identity/"

no one will know who is satoshi unless the people which work with him/her in bitcoin project in first time and i think satoshi is a group of people who work together with one project. maybe he hide his identity for his security and don't want other people know who is he and better like this so he can continue the project from other places.

Satoshi is a human being who has done right for humanity that will live with us till eternity. He has serve as a torchlight to liberation from government economic system in which they use to enslave us. He has gone beyond all those bottlenecks of doing transborder transactions. The reason why he is hiding he alone will be able to answer that but I am not sure he is hiding but the name is the only one hiding as he might even be monitoring how things are going but under another name or alias above all he has done well for this generation.

Not a strong proof and will be just included as one of the conspiracies regarding the true identity of the creator of bitcoin.  Im just wondering is Gavin Andresen or theymos doesn't even know who Satoshi is? Or just silent about this. Or what about those big names in bitcoin industry? They doesn't have an idea?

To the OP, why he is hiding his identity? Just take a look at what police did after Craig Wright claimed that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.

I think Satoshi is not just one person maybe they are group of businessmen people. They are trying to hide for  their securities against the government laws. If satoshi is just one person I think it would be hard for him to start the bitcoin.

https://puu.sh/ty3Fc/1480d52024.png (https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/823267152488792064)

https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/823267152488792064

Gavin Andresen definitely doesn't know who Satoshi Nakamoto his... Gavin Andresen got trolled hard by Craig Wright and now his credentials are shattered, you just cant take the guy seriously, or anyone else that got conned by Craig.

You think Wright was able to fool Gavin and Matonis? 

I find that improbable. 

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a payment system,invented by an unidentified programmer, or group of programmers, under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto.Bitcoin was introduced on 31 October 2008 to a cryptography mailing list, and released as open-source software in 2009. There have been various claims and speculation concerning the identity of Nakamoto, none of which are confirmed.The system is peer-to-peer and transactions take place between users directly, without an intermediary. These transactions are verified by network nodes and recorded in a public distributed ledger called the blockchain, which uses bitcoin as its unit of account. Since the system works without a central repository or single administrator, the U.S. Treasury categorizes bitcoin as a decentralized virtual currency. Bitcoin is often called the first cryptocurrency, although prior systems existed and it is more correctly described as the first decentralized digital currency.Bitcoin is the largest of its kind in terms of total market value.
He/they have kept their identity a secret may be due to security and many unpredictable reasons (many States,individuals are critical of em).

I concur. I lean toward some planned chain of events backfired with Wright being part of the plan, others pulling the strings till the strings snapped thanks to the astute community.

Wright: I'm Satoshi because A --> B --> C --> D--> E. Ain't that a nice view atop this high-rise?
Gavin and Matonis (among others): Proof enough for us.
The astute community: Excuse me, but C is a broken link because of X, Y and Z.
Gavin and Matonis (among others): Wait! What?

Why are you copy/pasting from Wiki and what does this have to do with the subject?

To be fair, the poster should've at least provided a link, but the passage is on-topic, albeit rehashed (is that a pun not intended?).

If I were Satoshi I'd prefer my identity to be a secret. When bitcoin was only a harmless little experiment Satoshi had no reasons to worry, but now when it became big and draws big money he should remain in hiding.
People are crazy, he'd need bodyguards and security systems to feel safe and even that wouldn't be able to protect him from the government.

This has been a subject of debate from the beginning how can a single person be an expert in so many and specific subjects, so there are only two possibilities bitcoin was a team effort or Satoshi was a genius, personally I prefer the latter explanation.

Which begs the question, why did Satoshi's mindset present Bitcoin anonymously and remained such from the get-go if the experiment was benign? A marketing ploy or something quasi-sinister to have in place if or when the world's financial markets based on fiat begin their collapses as currently witnessed?

If Satoshi's a single person, perhaps a man, then in retrospect he's a pussy for not standing up facing whatever as so many men and women worldwide have in the face of persecution et al. while espousing their myriad respective causes in bettering humanity.

Satoshi is an agent of the CIA or the FBI. Its main task is to destroy the financial system of China, India and Russia. In general, he is good guy just decided to slightly dilute the discus.

A case could be made for there being some validity therewithin.

Maybe he/they saw the big picture and predicted this protocol will grow.
Makes me wonder if, with enough resources they could be traced through this forum. Satoshi used it for a while, so there should be some traces left in the database. I know he surely hid his ip, but this is not a simple dox we're talking about but a CIA level trace, involving contacting the owners of possible VPN servers or internet cafes he used, a writing style comparison and profiling.
He might be a pussy in your understanding, many innovators are sensitive loners, sometimes even mildly autistic.

This can turn out to be a very good plot for a Hollywood thriller.
Satoshi's identity is revealed and now the race is between the ones who want to burn him down and the ones who want to protect him. Elon Musk might as well send him to Mars on one of his SpaceX rockets :D

This is the first time I'm reading this school of thought, interesting that you mentioned China, but it is a public knowledge that CHina dominate Bitcoin mining and market.

When I joined bitcoin forum I got interested who Satoshi is, since I got curious and amaze by what he did. But, he is not known by everyone but according to the research Satoshi Nakamoto is a Japanese man and it is his real name and some said that Satoshi is a group of people. We don't really know the truth yet but we are thankful whoever he is.

I think Satoshi Nakamoto just a mascot of bitcoin project. Deliberately created exclusively with one figure who made his identity was not revealed, because they are aware of bitcoin will have a big impact for world economy, even the dark market (anything other than a real financial system). Surely it would be very risky.

We see a masterpiece of william shakespeare in satoshi identity. A major influence without form creator.

I truly believe that Satoshi is not a real person. I consider that is almost impossible a man to be so intelligent and perceptive. Also, I have the view that behind him is hiding a group of people with the view to prepare the world for a monetary system completely different from that we use till now. Certainly, if there is actually this group (2-3 people) and not only a man is extremely difficult to stay until now in the anonymity except if for any reason they are no longer in life and have taken the secret with them. Of course all of these are conspiracy theories but in the end may be in a future moment we will learn the truth.

You could call it Cryptoraker.

http://nakatomi-plaza.blogs.fotogramas.es/files/2015/12/moonraker.jpg

How 'bout a Taste of Cryptoraker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB1aG_tP1C0

Is there any proof of life of Nakamoto since December 2010? Or did he disappear and no-one has seen him ever since?


Pretty good image  ;D.

There are many possible reasons Satoshi choose to stay hidden, there are many inventors that have claimed to invent things like automobiles that run with water and stuff like that, and they claim they were visited by shady men trying to buy them out or threatening them, some claim they have been murders because of it, and we wonder why satoshi decided to remain hidden when his invention goes against the interest of banks and governments?

I with I knew pal, I wish I knew... I would say it's the greatest mystery of the XXI century

I do not think Satoshi hid his identity because of this reason. Because there are many people who still want to keep the bitcoin system up and running. And these people do not hide their identities. The current economic system is already based on rivalry.

Why does it matter who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Actually, the community of cryptographers is quite small, especially if we are talking about very talented cryptographers. So, it is not difficult to find out who was the creator or creators of Bitcoin. But why it matters? We should care only about Bitcoin.

I wonder what kind of education the person who set up such a system is and how old he is. He has created something that requires knowledge and intelligence.

I want to know how Satoshi has developed himself.

He has to hide his identity because he invented a currency which does not require the permission of Government of his country or any other and if he has revealed his ID then i am sure the gov will ask him reasons and other stuff.
you can think that yourself also.

it is imperative that Satoshi hides his identity  for safety reasons has other individuals might want a piece of his bitcoins or governments might persuade him to shut down the digital currency.
And its believed satoshi is a group of computer scientists who wrote the code of bitcoin...

Very creative. But that would not make much sense as he/she/they could bring problems to the US government as well. It also would not make sense a theory that it was inserted in the code some way to make the US government to take control of this, because Bitcoin is open source, and the developers would have already found out to that point.

another topic similar to the old ones. Satoshi Nakamoto is said to be the founder of bitcoin but no one can prove his existence or if it is really true or not. the reason why he hides his identity is because of security purposes. if the world knows that he is the owner of bitcoin, they will tax him and his life might also be in danger. those are the reasons why he kept his identity!

OP should add this thread cause it may answer your question in the next few weeks.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1765953.0

Why are developer team not concealing their identities? The same goes for the risk developer team. If the government wants to close the bitcoin, it might ask the developer team.

If you want to understand Satoshi, I suggest downloading a copy of the original version of the Bitcoin protocol - i.e. before Gavin et al polished it up.

It's a strange piece of code. The style doesn't look at all like that of a commercial programmer. When I first read through it (late 2010), my initial impression was that it came from somebody who was self-taught, from one of the non-software communities that tend to write code - academic economists, physicists, maybe a manager at a bank. Definitely not a mainstream programmer.

The language of the inline comments made it clear that it was an American. I assumed at the time it was an expat living in Japan, possibly working for one of their big banks.

Whoever it was, they were highly idealistic (like extreme end of libertarian) and quite paranoid.

I think there are plenty of reasons for that. Some people just don't want fame and attention of the press and the government to their life. Another reason is that creating a currency and thus earning a lot of money might be not actually legal and so some government might even put him into jail or at least demand some crazy taxes. And being a mystery for everybody is more interesting than being somebody everyone knows, I guess, because thus you become legendary.

yea i agreee with with you. Many people dont want to show off their talents and dont want fame and name to be published among pulic and also he might ahve other reason to hide his identity.

we all know that he is the creater of bitcoin and i dont think it is a community or group of people i think he is just one person and i dont think any one of the user knows him or knows his identity...... i think when he create it he didn't expect about its too much success so, i think thats why he leave it.......

I think we all know that satoshi is the one who created bitcoin with the help of other's of course,
and he hides him/herself because of all the government that is hunting him/her because of tax evasion

So no-one has proof of life since then?

That is a topic on baseless claim of coindesk's Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamotto.  I believe there were enough times given to Craig Wright to prove himself cryptographically, but never he makes use of them, leaving us to conclude in negative.

I guess at least monthly once we are having a topic on mystery on Satoshi Nakamotto, yet I find them interesting as I am also eagerly awaiting his revelation.

Because they are not the creators of the bitcoin, and because they are not holding  the stash satoshi currently holds, so they don’t have to hide as much as satoshi needs to, besides maybe satoshi just likes to remain hidden while the devs don’t care.

To this day we do not know who is exactly Satoshi, and I doubt we will ever know. There is as much supposed reasons for Satoshi to hide than there is people that claimed to be Satoshi, with between those : fear for his life, him being dead, etc.

I think satoshi Nakamoto hide his identity not because he wanted to avoid taxes, but think about when people who have millions of bitcoin being exposed will certainly give a negative effect for bitcoin itself

also give a positive effect, bitcoin has the advantages that the owner does not need to include their identity during the transaction. this provides strong protection from identity thieves, them difficult to exposed

This also gives a protection to keep the hackers off from your wallet. As the anonimity if its users can be effectively not include on this currency, the hackers weren't able to trace or get the link of your account from your identity. This is the best advantage of bitcoin, that's why more people tend to used it for trading, online transactions, and shopping online.

https://seebitcoin.com/2016/05/everything-makes-sense-if-david-kleiman-was-satoshi-nakamoto-heres-why/

It can also be its alias, do not think that this is a real person.

Not many people seem to know satoshi (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3) has a user profile on Bitcointalk. You can read his posts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts) and all topics he started (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;threads;u=3;sa=showPosts).
What makes me most curious is why he suddenly disappeared stopped posting, half way a thread discussing Bitcoin internals.

Perhaps he just wanted to stay out of the public press and be private in real life. Its like winning a jackpot, you should never exposed yourself because you will fear for your life. So keeping a low profile keeps you out of danger. Going public would mean giving up his privacy and paying large sum of money because of taxes.

Satoshi created bitcoin to make people free from banks and do transactions without the involvement of banks. He created bitcoin as a decentralized currency, not controlled by any one. Today banks are facing their revenue losses which they got as transaction fees.Governments fear bitcoins that they cannot control any illegal transactions if done through bitcoins. In this situation, satoshi would have thought his life would be in serious threat if he revealed his identity.So, he decided to just stay behind the screen.

i don't think if he is still earning from it as a creater of it he doesn't have any problem in gaving tax to the government i think there are some other reason that we can't judge.....

Who know there are many reasons behind the scene nothing to worry about him. He has given you a great foundation in earning platform through bitcoin. It's better for him to sit ideal because once he exposes to public, definitely government will lock all his team building.

He probably isn't earning from it but he probably got hundreds of thousands of Bitcoins in his wallets. I wish I had at least 10BTC since Bitcoin was $1, but I was too late at the party so I got my first ones since Bitcoin was $1100. He should have known this project will go big.

some speculations say satoshi owns about 1 million coins. but i say all of it is irrelevant, and if you wanted you should have gotten in when price was low and it is still not late.
it was not long ago when price was $200 and people were saying the same thing about wishing price was lower. and some point everyone has to stop wishing and start acting.

imo Satoshi is only one person and he hide his identity to save his life or his family. As we know, founder of new technology not always will be rich, safe and famous

Not only that, governments are not the only ones looking for him, wannabe journalist are also trying to make a name for themselves by trying to expose his identity, I think he hid so well from the beginning because he knew as stated by himself that bitcoin will either not be used by anyone in 20 years or that it will be used by millions.

Satoshi was libertarian who didn't care about money as much as he cared about freedom.  He hid because he cared about his privacy and needed to protect his privacy to enjoy his freedom.  Easy read there--he was probably motivated by the prospect of having a hand in bringing about social, economic, and political change. Who knows?

ADDENDUM: Either that or he was a super genius who made bitcoin just because he could and got bored with it and moved on to the next thing that interested him.  He is probably one of those super smart blokes with attention deficit disorder who doesn't have time for the small stuff. He had too many other bloody things to be thinking about than incompetence and left when he lost control of the project to the wikileaks shills who's sole purpose of existing was privacy invasion.  A bunch of bloody scrubs!

Because like hell, no one cares about it. And no, he's not hiding anything. Its just like no one ask for his/her identity.
Who knows? Maybe yes and maybe no, no one knows him/her so how can be he/she recognized in real life?
He/she is a person not a community nor a group of people. He/she come up this idea and he/she knows that people will need this project as time passes by thats why he/she make it as open source so developers out there will continue his/her work as time goes.

I think satoshi it's just a community or a pseudonym of one person. It's an anonymous. I think no one know where is satoshi.
For me, I think that the name: satoshi nakamoto, Maybe that a japanese name.

Where can I download the first version of Bitcoin Core software? I mean, that's the first version that only Satoshi has done.

How do you like SATOSHI's programming style? Is it coded like poetry?

Nobody knows who is satoshi, is satoshi either a group or a person nobody knows it, the one that I know is Satoshi is the creator of Bitcoin and his creation has helped so many people in this world, and it is a good move for him to hide his identity so he can live in peaceful life and far away being target by criminal

Probably all of this started on the initiative of a single person, but over time, seeing the complexity of the project, he/she realized that would need other developers, especially due to the fact that the development of Bitcoin is something continuous. And yeah, this is probably a Japanese name, but that does not necessarily mean that is his nationality.

Anonym synonymous with no identity or hide the identity so I think it's okay if no one knows who it's satoshi  and why hide identity? because he is an anonym and an anonym will hide the identity

I think it's not just hiding his identity, I think he wants to keep bitcoin decentralized, and if it has an "owner" it looks like any other government or country run currency.

This should remain anonymous and he should as well. Bitcoin is popular due to decentralization and the fact that the inventor is anonymous, there is no reason for him to show up, we love the current system and for me, it is best to stay this way.
Honestly, what would it do if Satoshi will reveal his personal identity when everything is opensource.

yes it is commonly saying satoshi is the creator of bitcoin. may its right , but now one about that the fact that what is satoshi, either it is an organization, a group of people or a single person. and it is hiding its identity because he do not want to decentralize bitcoin, and continue it as anonymous and i think that is the reason that more and more people are trusting on bitcoin and joining. it.

I think Satoshi hid himself in his bid to self promote Bitcoin but his identity whether he's a person or a community I can't tell at the moment but he did hide for a good course for sure.

Craig Wright is Satoshi. Satoshi/Wright wants that everybody believe that he is NOT Satoshi so he made that bad episode a year ago and after that nobody believed him but that was his intention.

I agree even me Im not believing that Craig Wright is satoshi nakamoto , He should put hard evidence that he is satpahi nakamoto and why did he want to be exposed now? Before he hides himself from public for his safetyness and now he is revealing himself thats why I am not agreeing that craig wright is satoshi nakamoto.

Eh...I've always known :)

And it's none who has been previously named.

Those who have come forward were predicted and protected against. There's but one way to determine the real Satoshi and he's not going to stand up.

coin revlution has asked four questions at once. I am here to answer the four questions.
1. Why did Satoshi hide his identity ? It was needed to hide.
2. Has anyone seen Satoshi in real life ? Yes
3. Is Satoshi one person ? Yes
4. Or is it a community ? Not a community.

Your questions have many answers but I have given four answers.
If you want to know other answers, you can ask me privately.

It's not Craig Wright but it might be the expert who pretended to be dumb enough to be tricked by Craig Wright  ;)

I think craig wright get the attention of all users of bitcoin. how he did not have enough proof that he is satoshi Nakamoto. but regardless of right or not. is it could have a bad effect for bitcoin?

I don't think there is really a person named Satoshi, but most likely is a real person hiding his/her real identity. He might be now rich because I am sure he is holding a lot of Bitcoin which I know is good for his/her lifetime. Showing the identity of the person will only put their lives endanger because people will start pursuing them.

Lookit all these dipshit doody eatin' mongo-loids on this here forum.  Wouldn't y'all hide yo identity too if'n you was the one who created up bitcoin inna first place?  Me, I'd drop it onna world an' jist disappear off'n the face of the earth, jist like he done.  I'd cash out tha genesis block tho'.

Of course he did not use his real name, if you are trying to hide your identity thats rule number 1, but even if the is holding a big amount of bitcoin there does not seem to have an attempt to convert those to fiat or do something with them besides just being there laying dormant.

Sr. Craig is not Satoshi.

Satoshi Nakamoto is alive.

Satoshi hid his identity in his original proposal in pdf.  The white book of Bitcoin.

Using a variant of cryptography.


Cryptography

Female name

Art and technique of writing with secret procedures or keys or in an enigmatic way, in such a way that the writing is only intelligible for those who know how to decipher it.

The coins of block 00000 (Genesis block), should never be withdrawn.  The system must reject.

Or maybe Satoshi is an idea ? I believe system ?

It take about 9 years for the bitcoin .
The reason behind the hiding the identity of the satoshi is because he don't want take responsibility of problem under any government laws .
Well I readed a article from the google source site where it was mentioned that the developer of bitcoin wants only to show his talent of programming and making a big money network with high security in comparison to bank , but from time to time few people advertise his program and made bitcoin as official currency of online money and after that more and more people comes in bitcoin .
After these step by step successful of bitcoin network satoshi hides his identity  because some country banned bitcoin and some declare it as illegal fow of money .
In this way nakamotov hide his  all the identity , But I can't believe this story fully because may be the article is theoretical .

I think it doesn't matter who is Mr. Satoshi, the most important is bitcoin was created just because of us. Which is true, imagine we can do have savings without complying any documents unlike in banks it needs an information documents like id verification. But in bitcoin, all of it is not necessarily needed aside from that very secured and safe.

I'll remember you penned that if it's later revealed that Bitcoin was put forth by an NSA black ops program knowing full well that once released to the public it'd be fully developed on our dime, not there's, while they later on, like as starting about now, take back control of the technology for use in the banking system under the auspices of that's what we wanted, didn't we?

Think about it. If the powers that be can convince the populace that a 47-story building collapsed into in own footprint at near-freefall speed as we've all witness due to small fires and one possible compromised column, then the same powers that be can convince geeks that an anonymous dude is behind Bitcoin to solve the world's financial problems created by ... wait for it ... the powers that be.

Ponder:

what good is bitcoin if you don't use or spend it

satoshi nakamoto is the founder of bitcoin and also a creator of this too. none of us in bitcoin industry neither in the community nobody knows who really is. there is lot of speculations that has been discussed about his identity but most its only a perception and opinion by the others only, still no  and proof.

First there are legal accusations against bitcoin, i doubt if we would know Nakamoto or the team under bitcoin we would have some problem to have a face conected to bitcoin, against what happen with knowed brands, that use and abuse several faces into their promotions.
 While bitcoin hasnt recognized as currencie and payment processor by the countries makes no sense reveal his identity if he still alive, he made something that changed the world into better, i could compare bitcoin as internet miracle as well the energy that we do use all days.

If we knew Satoshi Nakamoto, we would have praised him while he was in trouble at the moment. It's like creating the Deep Web. Who said the deep Web was created for illegal stuff? Maybe the creator of it wanted to only give people anonymity whenever they need. The fact that it later turned out to become the center of many terrorists and drug dealers and criminals is not his fault - these kinds of people will always look for anonymity.

of some articles say satoshi Nakamoto is the name of the person, a group, have also said an organization that obviously it is still a mistery. and why satoshi hide his identity mostly argued to remove the responsibility would bitcoin.

I think He hides his identity for his security , If he is well known today his life would be endangered because other currency might be jealous to bitcoin and it might the cause of satoshi assassination. Today I think he is now watching us here in the forum and he still making his moves in to his creation.

I also wonder why he did that

You are right there my brother! No one really knows who is Satoshi Nakamoto. We don't know if it's a person or a group or even if it is an entity. There are also lots of speculations why he hide his identity. Some says to destroy the monetary system, some says for protection and to avoid being tax by the government.

I read an article that monero owners/team is in investigation by FBI because criminals have used this coin and I think that they have tried many time to see who is satoshi and maybe to arrest/contact him to give more information about bitcoin users(just a speculation), sometimes I think that it is better to not know who is or are Satoshi because bitcoin is an innovation. Some are claiming that they are satoshi but I doubt.

Well Criminals can use bitcoin the same way as criminals can you local fiat. So its not right to associate criminals with bitcoins. Bitcoin , just like any other currency can be used in good or bad way.
As far as Satoshi is concerned, is there any proof that the creator of bitcoin name was Satoshi ?

I can 100% guarantee that the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" is an alias.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68121.0

To me Satoshi Nakamoto was a codename not of an individual but a group or a team of talented and skilled individuals who are well versed with programming. These people are responsible for creating bitcoins and they call themselves Satoshi Nakamoto. For me they are the richest people in bitcoin industry since for me they are the owners of big exchangers are doing well today.

No one knows f t's one person or multiple persons.   

But either way, he hides his identity because powerful banks and governments might not like his invention, and might want him dead. Or at least capture him.

I would hide my identity too if I created something so disruptive.

Nobody in the world knows who is behind the name Satoshi Nakamoto, and those who know don't talk about it. Whoever he was aware that he had stopped working on the project for the creation and use of cryptocurrency around the end of 2010. However, his activities in the early stage of operation of the system brought him considerable profit. Despite the fact that we don't know who this person is, but we know exactly what he did :D

I'll talk about it...Just not very much :)

We don't even know that satoshi is real or not, so actually we all just guessing wildly, for me i think it will be more make sense to think satoshi as a team, because the bitcoin that being created is quite complex, so it is kind of impossible can be done with single person

You underestimate humanity

One thing for sure, that satoshi once exist here in this forum. So that definitely tell you satoshi is real.  Either he is a single person or a group is yet to uncover. There are lots claiming but only one thing to prove it, just sign that address which is believed to be satoshi's and all will be cleared.

Satoshi Nakamoto is an operation code-name not one person.

What you mention guys both is true, but we must not forget that before of the creation or the design of BTC there were perhaps some theories of economic models dating back several years ago much earlier than the creation of BTC, so either one person or several based part of their ideas  in those works, so that many areas of study are intertwined, such as mathematical, economic, cryptography, programming, to give solution to a model previously proposed, of course, whoever has been, whether one or more persons, I do not think it was possible without what I mentioned before, what is certain is that it is a disruptive idea and its scope is not yet fully understood, surely it will be several years before its impact is well known.

Do you mean the user "Satoshi"?

Satoshi teach us how to become full anonymous without get tracked
That's was a little piece form of how he/they want bitcoin keep being anonymous
Noone knows too if satoshi dead already or maybe still active among us.

Nobody knows who is Satoshi Nakomoto really is. Was in one person of group of people is still the mystery. He worked in the project at an early stage of its development together with others in the open source code, but tried not to reveal information about yourself. The last time the information about it appeared in the spring of 2011, when he wrote in one of his messages that "goes to work in another field."

Lol. it does not mean satoshi Nakamoto using the username "satoshi". it is possible he made an account on this forum, see this forum is the world's largest bitcoin forum. he might have joined the chat today

Maybe we should search who has made this nickname but we should know that satoshi was a forum member before but turned into inactive in 2010, here you can check the latest posts of satoshi https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3 .About the criminals there is no difference if they use bitcoin or fiat, we should not mask bitcoin as something bad for the community.

Does anyone know, if the email on original Bitcoin paper is still active?

Yes, his ideas were certainly brilliant.
You say he left the online community in fear of his life, why? I don't think that just because he has a pseudonym doesnt mean he is fearful of his life.

HOW TO MAKE A MINT: THE CRYPTOGRAPHY OF ANONYMOUS ELECTRONIC CASH

Laurie Law, Susan Sabett, Jerry Solinas

National Security Agency - Office of Information Security Research and Technology

Cryptology Division

18 June 1996


http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm)

This answer is really plausible. If I invented bitcoin, I prefer to hide. I am sure many secret services is looking for Mr. Satoshi now. The government is following bitcoin for more profit and also for the control of cryptocurrencies world. We nearly all know here cryptocurrencies is the future form of paper money. Don't you think the governments know this?

You cannot find the right or exact answer to your question. Because since bitcoin was started none of the community up to now don't know who's the founder is. It maybe dead or still alive up to now. and there are several opinions of answer about him regarding the topic above. Perhaps, He knows popularity will come up to him. maybe he want a simple life just lie an ordinary citizens.

yeah I agree with you, that does not mean he's the Japanese people by that name. I think he used a pseudonym or a code name. I do not know for certain why he hide his identity, but if he shows up. may be little effect on bitcoin

in fact no one have any clear idea about satoshi and everyone is making their own assumption about Satosh. may be satoshi is the fake name of a person or may be the name of a company, but no one has any clear idea about it. i think he do not want do disclose his identity may be he has some strategy for that and that is my he do not want his identity to show.

May be he have fear of exposing his identity because of developing such a system where money could be made by a computer and that would put all financial status of any country into danger. because in bitcoin system except electricity bill and initial investment money is free and if everybody start to make free money then there would financial was and depression in the world.

probably there are many reasons why satoshi keeps his identity hidden since the last 8 years but I don't have any idea what are those things, I doubt that there could be anyone who has seen him in person as satoshi is possibly not only a one person but a group of people who were wanting to make a new way of transaction and banking and escape the old ones .

As far as I know, Satoshi was not seen by anyone. I mean, it's just a character created on the internet. It's a really serious claim you say.
How did you get this information. Who saw Satoshi in real life?

BTC was made to provide ANONYMOUS transactions, so why reveal the founder's name?? It's against it's own (BTC) beliefs.
After all Satoshi might be a fake name, an alias, an internet character.

Not really.Making the transactions anonymous wasn't really the theory behind bitcoin's success.Blockchain was/is.Decentralized transactions might be another one I may add.It may look anonymous but the protocal doesn't really implement the concept in its practicality.

Or a group of people
Or Chuck Norris
Or theymos
Or 100 other characters no one cares about.

Yeah, and except all that you said.. Revealing such data is critical for your safety. There are many people targeting that guy for different things, and the reveal of him might actually turn into a bad thing: the mainstream media will probably publish headlines like "Meet the founder of the criminals' currency" which will get people mad about it and never put their interest and trust in BTC. Not a good idea to do it.

Wherever he is hes sitting on a pile of BTC  :o

But that must be the prime reason why he is hiding his identity.
I am just wondering how Bill Gates is tolerating the donations and begging requests he must be getting everyday. Might be Bill Gates is not managing any forum directly nor he is not just dealing with the new system of currency.

Satoshi or Satoshi Nakamoto is the creator of this beautiful cryptocurrency which what we are using now. I think he is hiding his identity because of security reason because we all know that he has a lot of bitcoin on his wallet and removing that mask on his face and revealing his identity is very risky decision since if he do that then people will know who exactly he is and where he lives and so on and he will become vulnerable for criminals who want to get all his bitcoin.

There are two possibilities why Satoshi hide personal identity, the first is due to deliberate. Satoshi consider bitcoin can be decentralized without any rule, then he has succeeded and this is most successful promotion in the world. Another possibility, bitcoin is excellence in cryptology, bitcoin managed to have an outstanding value of the usage ratio, if Satoshi appeared, he would be pursued by anyone in the world, including mafia and corrupt govt. They will not steal all the wealth of satoshi, but they would treat him as a moneymaker machine that never stops.

Nobody knows who Satoshi is. There is not much to do now.
To me, it's a wise way to hide his identity. It would be bad for this bitcoin if he did not hide his identity. If the satoshi had something bad to do, it would have a negative effect on the bitcoin.

Such a system should not be connected to a single person.

Satoshi is a Japanese man Satoshi Nakamoto who created the smallest unit of bitcoin and I think he has his own personal reason why he hid himself, and I guess its his security. Maybe now he's too old or maybe dead, it was just his legend that his name became a unit of bitcoin which everybody still using right now.

Satoshi is one of the greatest person that ever live because he is very genius to create bitcoin and now we can appreciate how good is bitcoin.

I think he hide his identity because he is afraid to be instant famous or very attractive to bad people like being murdered because he got a lot of bitcoin.

IMO you are looking at this the wrong way! Why don't you put yourself in Satoshis shoes and think of how many people,agencies,governments would want him/them.
If that's not enough,imagine what drug lords or terror groups would do with such a brilliant being like Satoshi with a gifted mind. Respect the unexpected, think through your risks.

^Exactly that. You nailed it man, enough said. Satoshi did the right move staying anonymous, I'm sure if his/their identity was known he would've been assassinated by now, that or he's hiding from the world in a high security prison in a sealed out cell for the sake of his own safety. Both those endings are horrid, lucky he/they stayed anonymous.

I think the name satoshi Nakamoto does not mean that his real name, maybe it is a code name to avoid identity exposed.
no one knows where he is. it seems he managed to conceal his identity

Definitely, as I've heard rumours from some sources that Satoshi is now currently owned 1,5 Million bitcoins and it's a damn huge number that makes people getting triggered to do criminal things against satoshi.
It's a wise move that satoshi keeps on hiding his identity and have no intention to reveal it by himself, a wise decision that not all people know.

If you were Satoshi, wouldn't it be cool to just roam around the city, sit in a coffee shop and look at all those people who endlessly talk about Bitcoin but don't know you are the one?

I'D LOVE THAT!

Every fews months we can read about theories on who is Satoshi, but it stay theories. I remember a journalist saying he finally found who is this guy and even visited him in USA. I guess those theories will never end like the one about the illuinatis or any others occult groups. I would say, it is better for him to be hidde, otherwise some particular lobby would enjoy having his head in exchange of a couple of thousands of dollars. At least if it was me i would do everything possible to hide my ass !

Plus not just theft is in mind here but assault or even assassination.  Satoshi is a huge public figure and loads of people associate Bitcoin with crime due to its prominence on the darknet etc.  It would be wise for Satoshi to keep their identity private, but if they were to reveal their identity it could cause a huge surge in the price of Bitcoin.

Better to hide his identity to be more mysterious.  I don't  think if he's  identity is important to know who or what he is. The most important are the things that he made today and will make in the future to get to know more about the bitcoin.

If his identity has got revealed sometimes our system might have functioned as a bureaucratic one. Right now it's good to have a great growth and made things move forward in the right track. The innovation is truly a appreciable one that people have got an ease in all sort of needs.

I believe Satoshi is a person and he did a wise thing because he's mystified Bitcoin and people's crave for more information markets Bitcoin and creates awareness.

I can tell you many reasons why Satoshi hide his identity.
He don't like publicity.
He wants to have peaceful life.
His mission is over.
I can think about many other reasons but it's wasting of time to think about it since we will never know the right answer.
Is this really so much important for you?
Anything important will change in your life if you find answer to this question?
I suggest that we all focus on much more important things and move on.
Enjoy your bitcoin life :)

It's not possible to say who is Satoshi, I believe only few people know his real identity, but I don't think he is an alien, a robot, a cyborg as some people say, just a normal man that created something amazing that is helping many people around the world and introducing a new technology that changing our ways to process payments virtually over the internet.

He has his own reasons to hide his identity, maybe for safe, to don't be bothered, to continue operating without nobody knows who he is...

Until now we don't know the real reason why and Who? even the bitcoin experts don't know the exact reason, just what important is that bitcoin has been developed in good result because of the demand of the community in the entire world together with the different big companies adapted the concept of bitcoin.

According to the Russian Govt bitcoin was created by the U.S. CIA, so that is why the fake Satoshi  name is used. It applies to a team of people who work in Langley Virginia not one real person,Think they can eliminate income tax dodgers if they can create a digital economy with a non private blockchain and when they make it so everyone can only have one address this will be reality.Total police state control, yes bitcoin is beautiful but the world that controls it is corrupt

on the one hand I must agree with you, it sounds really cool, but on the other hand, wouldn't you feel the desire to be praised for such a wonderful invention that is going to change the world completely? I definitely would and it would be hard to stay quiet about it. Besides that we don't even know if satoshi is still around and if he is still alive, maybe he is just silent because he is not around any more?

Getting the praise always feels good, that would be a reason to reveal your identity. However the threats posed by revealing the identity are far more which will prevent him to do that. You don't want being praised for a day or two and then being grounded/robbed/kidnapped by unknown people. If at all needed, he could reveal his identity once he is on his deathbed when no more harm is posed.

Satoshi, Satoshi Nakamoto is verbatim, is a character or organization anonymously invented Bitcoin. According to my speculation and the evidence I saw, I think this is a character. Satoshi began creating open source software Bitcoin Core, want to create a freedom coins for everyone. Bitcoin began designing by Satoshi  in 2007, he believes can create a virtual currency system that when the transaction is not dependent on any financial institution. In mid-2010, Satoshi suddenly disappeared from Bitcoin world and no one can communicate with Satoshi.In 2014, some reporters caught a person for this person is Satoshi but refused them all and do not want to meet, I also do not understand why Satoshi hides his identity.  All information about Satoshi still a mystery in the world of Bitcoin.

http://imgur.com/a/NPiIs

it has a frikin poker lobby in the origiall code

Good my asss
just poker
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F7Nsr6Ql.jpg&t=574&c=sGyDE6YRpLJf7g

it is simple to see what it is for

easy to see wright did it for poker

Honestly I actually did not know about satoshi,but I am glad to know this digital currency
I think this is not possible in working on their own,the possibilities created by a team

Satoshi or Nakamoto Satoshi is the creator of bitcoin and he was my idol in technology world because he created this kind of master piece with a lot of great features like anonymity, price volatility and much more. He also holds a lot of stocks of bitcoin and one of the reason why he's hiding his identity is because he is afraid of getting robbed or threaten by someone.

A lot has been discussed about this. There are many speculations why he does not want to disclose his identity. Ultimately, we do not know and will never know if Satoshi does not make himself recognizable one day.

So we got peeps that can bypass best securities but not back trace Satoshi!?!?
Why didn't someone back trace him yet?

Seems to me he was more after plausible deniability than absolute anonymity.

As for why he hid his identity -- he's probably embarrassed to be associated with the signature campaign industry  ;)

Awesome  :) I agree with you say  :D

Satoshi is a fugazi which doesn't exist. It's figment of someone's imagination and nothing else. However, I am really not much bothered about who has created bitcoin and why, because I am already reaping the benefit of bitcoin without knowing who is the inventor of bitcoin.

Also I support the fact that the inventor is hiding himself and it is for good. Otherwise he would have spent the rest of his life in Jail. I want him to live a peaceful and serene life because he has sown the way for financial freedom to many. God bless him!

I think there are some smart people who know who satoshi nakamoto is ? but they still keep it as a secret. because bad things will happen to bitcoin when satoshi Nakamoto who actually unfold #imo

someone once told he is an alien  ;D

Maybe try looking it up if you haven't gotten enough info from the replies here... But in simple terms he created bitcoin and from what i understand left the bitcoin world. No one knows who he is or where he lives and I'm sure it has a lot to do with privacy

Correct, and maybe his reason why he just vanished into thin air is because he doesn't want attention that much, he hates people asking him about things so much, he hates to be in the crowd with the flashes of the cameras all around him. But still, nobody knows what is his true reason why he hid his identity, as of now, all we can do is to support on his decision. Who knows someday, when the right time comes, Satoshi Nakamoto will reveal himself because it is needed.

Yeah Satoshi created the bitcoins thats why he make the bitcoins smallest unit after his name as Satoshi. No one knows his identity. I think he might be dead because if he was alive he would have come before the world.

The man behind the alias was a genius and if he could create something like bitcoin do you think he is not capable of hiding his tracks ,if you are the best in anything you can by pass the rest.Many hackers did tried to hack his accounts but they were unable to track him and that is a testament of the measures he took to hide his identity.

Very much possible but he left the community before bitcoin caught huge value.



Well this is possible as well but IMO you can't ace at everything, he created a robust validation system coz he was very good it, which does not mean he was ace at being anonymous.

Thats why he remain anonymous after all this years and as you said if his invention is capable on hiding transactions and its features for sure himself is also considered since its his creation which means the owner and creator would be the same.No one know on where is satoshi but one thing is for sure he/shes still alive and watching his creation grow.

satoshi did not call them satoshis

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_(unit)

they got called this later on

Satoshi Nakamoto didn't want anybody to know who they were so they hid their identity. They were afraid that what they were doing might be construed as being illegal because they were paying close attention to the "National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Code." After von NotHaus was found guilty of minting his own currency in March of 2011, Satoshi finally decided it was time to move on to other things for good. The whole bloody project became too hard to hide after wikileaks got involved!

Apparently on April 23, 2011 satoshi emailed several of the devs and said he was moving on "to other things" so this would line up nicely with the "March of 2011" conviction date.  However he had already stopped posting in bitcointalk a few months before that.  His last post was in mid-December 2010, where he mentioned he was going to work on "more complex ideas."  That doesn't seem to fit in with the NotHaus timeline as well though.

Well, that's because of "dark" connections within wikileaks, the CIA's escalated interest, and no definitive ruling in the Liberty Dollar case which was being followed closely since 2009.  The March ruling was a signal to completely move on, and it was apparent that the project had become, more or less, autonomous by that point.

Yes,satoshi would have thought that he would face serious threat from banking sectors since his creation is to be the worst nightmare for bankers.He is a single person.He just wanted to free people from depending on the banking sector.

I dont know the real reason why did satoshi hide his identity also i never seen satoshi in real life since before. But is it that important to know who satoshi really is? I mean is that really big deal for us to meet and even talk Satoshi in real life? Because for me it doesn't matter if you've already met Satoshi or not as long as there is one "person", Satoshi (i think) who invented bitcoin and thats the thing that i would focus and say to the one who invented this "THANK YOU".

A few reasons immediately spring to mind:

Not everyone is interested in fame. Fame is something which has driven many straight into the waiting arms of addiction and eventual death. The founder of Bitcoin is almost guaranteed, as a public figure, to be famous, something some of us would not wish on our worst enemies.

The moment we positively identify the creator of Bitcoin, we open the door to the details of the creator's life being used to discredit the currency for financial purposes. Putting yourself in a situation where your misfortune and the slandering of your good name can result in a windfall of potentially millions of dollars for the right individual is not entirely wise by some thinking. Similarly, if there are events in Satoshi's life(or lives) which could cause scandal, those wishing to see the currency fail (or drop in value for their own financial ends) would be strongly motivated to dig into said events.

When a person is linked to a work, the work is seen as a subset of that person, rather than an entity in and of itself. Satoshi may simply want Bitcoin to make it's mark on it's own name. Furthermore, there is a school of thought where good works should not be done for personal credit or glory, but should be done for their own sake. If Satoshi is of this school of thought (and certain elements of the structure of Bitcoin could lead one to believe this is possible, even likely), he may simply feel that the glory/fame would cheapen the value of what he considers a gift to mankind.

These are just a few of the reasons Satoshi may wish to remain anonymous. There are plenty more potential motivating factors, but without knowing more about Satoshi, it's anyone's guess which contribute to the decision to remain anonymous.

this is why I thnk wright discredit himself. he make all the press think his degree fake.  That Vlad guy posted transcript of wright and the dregree is on the uni
so real
wright make all think it fake
he make him drop away

he know he as a gambling past and he is out of media now

why patent if he has money. Ayre is a billionaire - so that is a stupid comment. people do not stop when they have what you think is a lot
why would wright stop

Also, it's possible that he hold large amounts of btc as a creator of it and if his identity is revealed, he may become a victim of terrorists and criminals that want to get to that btc amount. Then, governments can investigate him or get him to manipulate the bitcoin as it's creator or simply to make him help them create the "alternative bitcoin" and push that one to the people who aren't into bitcoin already.



There can be a lot of things that can happen to him, but probably the most, his private life would be destroyed and he obviously doesn't want that and honestly, I wouldn't be revealing my identity if I were a creator. You know you've created something big and made an impact, so enjoy the profit you've made living the life as you were with that much of a media attention or anything else that could disturb your private life in the way you don't want it to.

Here is a thread of threads that may answer many of your questions. It is an accumulation of all the facts and speculations along with the words from the entity theirself: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=504182.0

Nah, I wouldn't use that to start your Satoshi investigation.  That's just a thread about that Dorian Nakamoto crap.  About the only interesting thing related to Dorian was his one-time proximity to the late, great Mr Finney.  

IMO, everyone using Bitcoins is Satoshi, I would never trust anyone coming up and saying that they are "Satoshi Nakamoto" because Satoshi would never show his face publicly as the concept behind the invention of Bitcoins is anonymity, and if the maker themselves break the rules, how could he expect his innovation to keep their words?

But it includes all sorts of collateral information that might be helpful. There are quite a few links so it's a lot to read, but there is a trail there. Outside of that thread, I think that the perplexcity connection is the most ignored yet most compelling lead. Card number 256 may be a serious clue.

Satoshi has another name- Central Intelligence Agency
You know the ones who created alqueda and Isis? Yes they love that dream where one day everyone will have just one digital currency address and you can not hide anything from the mass enslavement and taxation scheme they dream of


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/russian-politician-claims-bitcoin-cia-conspiracy-finance-terrorism-revolutions-1490028

That makes some great sense and I appreciate your articulation. We should just quit trying to find satoshi because if he existed or perhaps wants to be known he would have shown himself a long time ago. He is defending his concept of anonymity and leading by example.

I don't even believe Satoshi was a real person. The developers of bitcoin probably called themselves as Satoshi to stay anonymus. I don't think nobody in Japan called Satoshi.

The reason why don't espose their identity is that they never want to be known by the governments not to get killed. And this ensured people to use bitcoin to stay anonymus.

He is a time traveller from multiverse

Firstly, there are many people in Japan and elsewhere named Satoshi.

Secondly, how was it that SN had the foresight in opting to remain anonymous when his worked was based on KNOWN giants before him having all their research readily available, Satoshi only solving one aspect of the problem?

No one really knows who Satoshi is and maybe we will never find out. I completely understand why he or She doesn't want to reveal the identity, that would bring nothing but troubles. Enjoying anonimity and richess it has was probably the best decision made. And for the users realy matters only Bitcoin, not his inventor.

Why are you guys even interested in satoshi anyway? Yeah he invented bitcoins but he isn't god. He made something really innovative and something that could be the future of money, but that is it. Just take for example Thomas Edison. He invented light bulbs, but would you ask help from him if you wanted to improve your LED flashlight? I don't think so.

And come on! The guy disappeared for a reason. That reason is unknown to everyone, let him have his peace. For all we know he's dead. He didn't leave a good bye note, or anything that would say he left for a reason, we can also check his bitcoin address. If he was alive he sure would have move some funds from there.

It is still a mystery no one knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is? Even some people believe that Satoshi Nakamoto is not a single person a team worked as and given a fake name as Satoshi Nakamoto. Don't think that mystery will be solved ever.

Trust me, Bitcoin is succeeding just because Satoshi is not coming in front of everyone. He is supporting the properties of his invention by anonymously working for the whole community and taking nothing in return. Many good doers like to do their deeds behind the scenes and Satoshi is one of them. Even we all are interested in hiding our identities to remain anonymous, so we should consider ourselves as Satoshi too.

You n me, we all are Satoshi!

For me he hide his true identity he wants a normal life because if he expose her true identity many people will have interest in her life like terrorism and criminals. Her life and his family will prone in death.
I have a question to.
Is he true lived in japan or speculation only ?

We have a similar point. In addition, maybe because Satoshi doesn't want to be famous. Not all millionaires are flaunting how rich they are in the society. Maybe Satoshi is one of those millionaires who are very humble in dealing with money. Also, he wants to extend his or her help to others on how to have a better living despite how difficult to handle life everyday. Commonly, money is the main source for basic commodities or maybe he has experienced how to be poor in the past that's why he created bitcoin.

Bitcoin is an anonymous currency and I think that its creator also wanted to remain anonymous in order to avoid possible negative from competitors and those who do not like bitcoin.

Yes it could be possible but to your claim that he hides his identity to avoid possible negative from people who does not like bitcoin.  It is impossible that someone will hate it without any good reason.  Those who hate bitcoin are those who did not understand it and were not able to earn any income from it. 

Maybe satoshi just wanted to hide his identity for security purposes and that he just wanted to be anonymous while seeing the success of bitcoin.  Maybe after it become super successful or before he die, he will show himself to the public.

My best guess is he hid his identity for security purposes. Governments, banks or even common criminal thieves could try to attack his life, steal his money or even kill him. It would be too dangerous to reveal his identity.

Another good reason, maybe, is that he didn't want to be under the spotlight. He liked to create a "stand-alone" currency, without the need of a leader, in the true spirit of decentralization. This way all the people's attention is on Bitcoin and not on its creator.

I'm guessing that this thread was created and periodically bumped by a user having sockpuppets who maintain sig campaigns. How close am I? <not flaunting my personal sig>

Back on-topic, my best guess is that James Simons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons) is behind the SN nym.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5kIdtMJGc8

https://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wedemain.fr%2FLe-mysterieux-inventeur-du-bitcoin-aurait-ete-demasque-par-la-NSA_a2952.html

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another bizarre fact if in seeking well one can find a patent file in the name of Satoshi Nakamoto which dates from the years 70-80 , this project  has been carefully prepared well before 2009. And just my opinion and hypothese I think bitcoin is created by several experts in different fields, even in biology and music, but that team of expert probably did not know the finality of project , if you cut one project in several pieces the person will not know of finality of project because is limited with only by the task that is asked and for finish that is a rich person i think he create bitcoin no for just decentralized just for not pay high dollar for bank just for create his own bank is moving his fortune on the bitcoin step per step

you just emphasize what you want to make a emphasize I do not lower to this level sorry for you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis

Some people says its one person others say it were a group of people, but the identity remain unknow were best to crypto world, at this stage our creator would be into the jail since several people does use bitcoin for black market. Bitcoin has growed a lot since borned, in fact its changing the world concept about management, decentralized currencie without countries manipulation has proven already its value.

I think he is the person who wants everyone to be equal, but he hides his identity so that he is not found and punished.

Heres a few interesting things about Gavin Andresen.  Born Gavin Bell.  Started the first BTC faucet.  Worked closly with Satoshi, maybe the closest  ;).  Without warning his name and contact information replaces Satoshis' on the Bitcoin.org website.

and the mystery continue  ::)

cia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgqtcu0zo-k


Buy hey, no one gives a flying fuck what you think or whether you're right. Bitcoin Cash does not give a fuck about you.

Well if the true identity of satoshi nakamoto would be out there, you would've already known by now. But I truly think it's for the better that he/she remains anonymous. Bitcoin and blockchain in general is such a revolutionary technology that a lot of governments are not as happy with it. For his/hers sake it's safer to remain anonymous. It's also possible that the true satoshi is already dead, I think this is the case.

These are the best soldiers you people have, so inteligent

Governments are very happy with it do not be so easily deceived by the popular thought.They outlaw cash like they are doing in europe and everyone has just one btc or digital currency address by law and guess what.Total slavery and monitoring of everything you spend

Personally, I think that we will never find answer for this question.
It's obvious that Satoshi likes anonymity and don't want publicity.
After all, it's very good way to avoid government and tax control :)
He proved already that he is smart guy and he did the best thing for himself, don't you think so? :)

why did he publish the white paper on Halloween?

According to internet Satoshi is the founder of Bitcoin, But nobody knows him.
This is the most amazing and mysterious section of Bitcoin.

Satoshi did hide his identity due to some death threat because he is holding most of the Bitcoin on the market right now. He won't reveal his true identity no one really know who satoshi is and where is he from.

I'm surprised that somebody hasn't made a movie about Satoshi yet.

It would be just as interesting, if not more interesting to watch than Social Network.

Throughout the movie, there can be several journalists, cypherpunks, etc., even the Winklevoss twins, traveling the world to search for Satoshi.  They would meet several imposters and through challenging analysis, uncover the frauds.

Then at the end, the camera would pan over the shoulder of one of the frustrated investigators and we see a man wearing a hat and sunglasses, sipping on a martini, surrounded by beautiful women.  It's like the TV commercial of the "world's most interesting man".  The camera zooms in on his phone and we see one of his signed public addresses.

He must have a plan of hiding his identity. For him creating the white paper at the Halloween season, hmm... ??? There is a mystery behind bitcoin,  but I think it will be of good for now.

For me Satoshi is one person,that probably created a revolutionary invention which is bitcoi,.And he was aware of that and knew that anyday soon bitcoin will affect financial system worldwide.He probably prefered to hide his self as some potential governement that wish to shut down bitcoin may want to force him to somehow act against bitcoin developpement.

Others say,that a group of people that are against being not anonymous in there daily life,they are named cypher punks may be behind bitcoin creation.

We are not ready to discover who is Satoshi anyways  :)

Ithink Satoshi is a virtual personality and no real physical existence. Becausenobody knows who was he and where does he live. Just one thing the people he know about satoshi is that he belongs to china and he is the founder of bitcoin and now he is not in this world.

One thing I want to say about satoshi is that he gave the world a currency which is beyond the tensions and any other hurdles which is built in with the paper currency.

Satoshi nakamotor physically exist and the real reason why he is not exposing his self in the audience or in the public because a lot of people will try to kill or stole his bitcoins because hot millions of bitcoin and that is worht billion or even more dollars so it is just a dangerous action if he will introduced himself to the people around the world.

Its a mystery and no one will ever know about the real Satoshi. As we already knew that, real Satoshi has mined around 1 million coins in the initial days so he/they will never disclose the identity for security reasons and to avoid the authorities.

This is a very difficult situation. Especially now, that bitcoins are very popular and many big companies and governments want to get it. So the so-called satoshi must conceal his glorification to save himself. He can be put to death here. It's a big obstacle to banks and industries so it really needs to stop. But they are very difficult and impossible to do so their only key is the founder of Bitcoins.

I'm Satoshi.

The "real" Satoshi didn't even own a computer during it's conception.

figure that one out.

Dating back to January 2009 when Bitcoin was launched, Satoshi was active providing updates, answering questions and everything necessary to keep up his idea. It was actually late in 2010 when he had to make the call of disappearing from this world. I don't really think any government or company for that matter can find the real Satoshi who disappeared almost 7 years ago and nobody has heard from him ever since.

This is ridiculous, there is a lot of people who are posting nonsense on this Forum, and you are one of them. How can you say that the real Satoshi didn't even own a computer? Is it like Satoshi made bitcoin out of his magic or something? Make sense, this bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and made up of codes, so don't be dumb dude.

mr. nakamoto satoshi the dev's of bitcoin i know him, i think better to him hide the identity for the security purpose, and i think the investor in bitcoin personally known the real identity of mr. satoshi and the higher rank position in this industry.

Mike Hearn is Satoshi Nakamoto. He hid his identity so Google couldn't have an intellectual property claim.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2146520.msg21475727#msg21475727

The very interesting question of who! That's a mystery and even a community as smart and big as Bitcointalk fail to pinpoint him out accurately (together with evidence) in short. Why did he hide his identity is something easier to answer though but instead of that, I'm actually wondering how he's cashing out his billions ???

Prick!  :P Nice find/link which I just commented on.

So interesting that even the people that is not a member of this forum is also trying to figure who really is Satoshi Nakamoto. There might be some things that can track his place, stikl he is ready with it that it can't be tracked by simple means. And far as I know, he has no billions because he left bitcoin.

This seems to be the question that almost all bitcoin users in the world, because until now no one knows the reason why he hid his identity. Maybe if he appeared to the public, he could be one of the world's famous people. because he makes bitcoin. But I think satoshi is not a bitcoin creator, but a community or group name.

Probably never. His stash is the base of the economy.

I'm right here bitches...

There's no stash.

There's no economy.

There's only the people.

No one knows who Satoshi really is. someone here on the forum said that Satoshi is DPR aka Dead Pirate Roberts (the one who did the blackmarket also known as silkroad). the reason he hide his own identity is he has alot of death threats if he shows up on public due to his 1m worth of Bitcoins.

Thank my my lord for blessing us with a system to make people instant rich! We all have been waiting for such a sophisticated Ponzi since forever !

lol Mike isn't that intelligent.Had he been he wouldn't get caught selling drugs to kids from a local public library.No offence but I like Mike. :)

If Satoshi had not hidden his identity, I don't think any one of us would be here at this time because bitcoin has grown to a point where a lot of interest are pissed and annoyed about which are very powerful across board. If Satoshi had been around, he would have been gotten to which will then not secure enough for us to be dealing with. He knows the perfect reason while it had to be that way and I respect him for that.

I think it's also for the better that satoshi hid their identity there are certainly some powerful people out there who are not too happy with bitcoin. But if they were to get their hands on the real satoshi how would this stop bitcoin? I mean the code is out there satoshi can't single-handedly stop it.

As I have read in many article about bitcoin, I always read the name of satoshi but no one knows satoshi. But in some article he is a programmer who make bitcoin. There are also some speculations that they are group of programmers who are invented bitcoin and implemented blockchain. That we used to earn this present days. The satoshi nakamoto still hidden because there are people questioning about bitcoin just like some country that made it illegal in their country.

Other than "inventing" bitcoin, concealing his identity and disappearing was one of the smartest ideas.

|amen. brother [!]

the real sophistication however is projekt(æternia, lazarus)...aka plan(ß)

speaking of such things...what is mæstro(P)ink up to these days?

Was Mike Hearn over or under Curtis Green of Silk Road?

It might be a code name for the team (maybe under government) who created and varnished. You know the high level of secrecy the government can keep.. and maybe, the people behind it might not even be Asians as the name sounded.

i think staoshi nakamoto is satoshi. he is japanese because i reseach about him by google :
Newsweek has given us some information about Bitcoin: Satoshi Nakamoto. Unlikely as it may have been, it seems that Satoshi Nakamoto was the only one who worked on many of the secret projects of the US government as well as national corporations in the country of flowers. However, Newsweek has yet to determine whether this is the real Satoshi Nakamoto or not that they can only predict predictions about the duplication of information between the two coincide very well. The article on the Newsweek is very long, we will point out details about the users themselves are geniuses about the computer, password and tuition.
you can acces website https://www.coindesk.com/information/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto/ for understanding clearly

Genius!

Satoshi Nakamoto  is the man that created Bitcoin and the world's most ellusive billionaire.No one knows why satoshi is still hiding his own identity.Maybe he has his own reason for being mysterious.

I don't know everything about Satoshi but most of them pointed him as the owner of Bitcoin. If he is the real creator of bitcoin for sure he is a millionaire himself. If I were satoshi,I would also hide my identity for my security purpose and I would remain mysterious in the world of bitcoin because I want to see how bitcoin become successful in cryptocurrency world. I would feel delighted if that's the reason of his. We don't even know the real score behind but we are thankful and keep that.

If I say satoshi is a pseudonym or just one person. it may be the reason he hides personal data so that many people become interested in finding detailed information about this person and will certainly make him more familiar with the crowd later.

 I don't think there is a need to find out who satoshi is. Am confidence satoshi is not an individual but an institution influenced or supported by a national governing body that even united states knows about. He created so much that he can linked or known.

To Achieve full decentralization, he hide his identity, i believe this is the reason, if anyone knew who he was, we would be unable to achieve this

Whoever he is just see the achievement of that person, he just revolutionized the world and now everyone is talking about the bitcoin he is savior owner of this blessing bitcoin, he did out of box thing and he will remain in hearts of people because he is the life changer of many people across the globe whoever gets benefit from bitcoin must say thanks to SATOSHI.

base on what iread on internet satoshi we may not know who he or she was, we know what he did. Satoshi Nakamoto was the inventor of the bitcoin protocol, satoshi 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".

satoshi is a pseudonym made by a person so that his identity is not known by the banking world, there may be a reason satoshi was used as a pseudonym. from the information I know satoshi is the inventor of bitcoin.

I do not know Who is Satoshi? I try to understand the information on the internet. but can not find anything

you sure about your information ?

bitcoin is said to be a decentralized currency

if satoshi continued with the bitcoin project because the currency would be centralized to the
so for bitcoin to be 100 percent decentralized sathosi would have to step aside
that was the reason he left
this would also imply leaving aside your wallet with a million bitcoin

my theory that from the moment it left, I remain on an equal footing that any other user
so he started to mine bitcoin as anyone in the world can do
being at the same height as any bitcoin user


in the version of Craig there are 2 options, that really is a farsante "official version"
or really if it was satoshi
at one point in his life he passed by his head saying "if I was the one who invented bitcoin" and then on the move he realized that it was a mistake
and returned to its philosophy that was to hide its identity so that it remains decentralized to 100 percent
so the last thing that Craig said was, I wanted to send the evidence of who I am but I could not do it, I broke before

From there are the 2 options, trickster or arrangement everything so that it seems to be a fake?

then the other option, if it were Japanese, if you knew so much about programming, you could easily know English, even live in the USA
so I know, all the programming codes are in English, because it's easier
although there should be code in other languages
but the official thing is that all programming code is English, be it from spain, china, russia or whatever

my theory is that he is still and contributing in bitcointalk but as a user like any of us
fighting in the day to day as we in trying to get more bitcoin

Satoshi as known by most of us does not want to expose his or her identity base on some security reasons. Blockchain technology is not meant to be controlled by one entity or be attributed to an individual so as to keep the whole concept open and accessible to all.

Satoshi Nakamoto is the person who founded bitcoin, and he really lives in my opinion if Satoshi Nakamoto is known to others then he will be a target and could have happened things that are not in want, therefore his identity is hidden.

Creating bitcoin he starts a revolution to the actual money monopoly system, he decentralized and he disappear and I guess it's the most smart thing he could do.

If it's decentralized no one can shut it down as they can't attack the whole bitcoin network, and by disappearing he leads this "movement" to all the people who wants to participate. If he continued as "leader" he would be the representative face of BTC community and if he is attacked or anything... It would shock all the community making them more vulnerable.

Well I think no one still knows that who is he and who is going to operate bitcoin and what is the reason behind this but in my opinion bitcoin is going to humanity and it play a very big role in third world country because it’s a digital currency and whatever bitcoin did for humanity I must say thanks to satoshi and thanks to bitcoin.

There is a documentary on Netflix focusing on the beginnings of the blockchain and searching for Satoshi Nakamoto. Worth watching it

Do you guys think we will ever get to know who Satoshi is? Maybe 1 day he will reveal himself or someone will reveal him? If that happens then what will happen to bitcoin and price?

Satoshi or Satoshi Nakamoto is the one who created or the founder of Bitcoin during 2009. He hide his identity for his safety and for having a privacy in his life.

I tend to agree with this statement more that the rest...
If the system didn't want Bitcoin to grow, it simply wouldn't...
The same with Torrent file exchange - it is still there for a reason.

Very mysterious person or person, I do not know why? Maybe he decided to give up glory and give bitcoin to all people.

I think he did it on purpose. Since he built a high profitable network. Its very ideal that he did hide his identity. Many will threaten him to make him pay satoshi rather than working for it. He did it for self security.

Satoshi hide himself so many reasons for good, but I think the government know who is he by now because they must know, they have lot of great tools and very intelligent people working for them. Also for average people that are good, some of them know who the real satoshi is but they don't want share because of security seasons. this world is not as it might seems to be. you have to bury certain things in order to live peacefully if you invented something like bitcoin. 

No. He won't reveal himself. He has keep his silence for the longest time and I have doubts that he will resurface anytime soon. He is already leaving a quite life now (assuming he is not dead). And if ever he shows, up, of course the price of bitcoin will skyrocketed.

Maybe this is just one reason. He has built bitcoin to what it is today, and I think he wouldn't imagine that bitcoin will go this far. He's life is in danger if ever he shows to the public that's why he chooses to remain anonymous. He will be a target for hackers or even some individual who wants to take that money he got. So let's all enjoy his inventions and we should just thank him for what he did and share to the world.

Maybe he kept his identity secret because he did not want his daily life disturbed. We know how famous Bitcoin is now and if we know who the inventor is, there will be many journalists every day who come to question him. Always visited by journalists is not fun, especially now that many journalists who always dismantle the secrets of people.

Not only on journalist thing but for sure there are lots of people would really search for him specially government because he would really be big threat cause we saw on how capable bitcoin is when it comes on new way payment system which can possibly be used either on positive or on negative side.

Stop it.

He had no idea it would be this popular. The people who's shoulders Satoshi stood on weren't in any way beating off crowds of people or receiving threats for what they created. So he had no reason to believe he would be threatened by the paparazzi or evil doers. He likely envisioned bitcoin to be somewhat as popular as Second Life Linden Dollars which had well under 100K users at the time of Bitcoins release.

Satoshi established the pseudonym for one reason. He was avoiding an "intellectual property" claim from his employer. He did not want his employer to be able to control a protocol that was supposed to eliminate "third party trust".  

Say Google made a claim that the bitcoin code was theirs because the inventor was working for them at the time. Nobody would have used it as it couldn't ever be used for what it truly was solving. Google would have used it likely in the GoogleSphere for payments on Android and the likes but it wouldn't have become what it is as Google would end up being the "trusted third party" bitcoin was trying to eliminate. Sure Google would get brownie points for having an "open ledger" but mining would have been eliminated and each token would be backed by the word of Google making your digi-cash stash safe yet easily used and verifiable.

I use Google as the example because I believe it was Google who Satoshi was hiding his identity from. And this is why I believe Mike Hearn is the real identity behind Satoshi Nakamoto.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2146520.0

If you actually think about real life reasons Satoshi would hide his identity and not make believe fantasy crap that he somehow knew Bitcoin would be this big and his life would be in more danger than the other thousands of billionaires out there, you would likely come to the same conclusion about why he hid his identity. You may not come to the conclusion of same person behind it as I have but regardless of who, the reason is pretty clear.

I think there are lot of reason why satoshi hide his identity. I think some people already see him but they do not know that he is satoshi. In addition to that, I think he want to kept it secret and I think he hide his identity for his safety. I think doesn't want to exposed his real life and he want some privacy so that I think its a reason why he hide his identity.

He probably forgot his key to his wallet
I think he is a brilliant wreckless man
What does he have to gain by revealing his identity.
The feds have already knocked down doors looking for him.

i saw a video from youtube, He told that he can proved that he is shatosi.  And also he said he had many btc.
i don't know is it real or not.

He did. He said so himself here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6t2ci2/never_before_seen_mike_hearn_satoshi_nakamoto/dliizv6/

It is not a question of what he has to gain but rather what does he have to lose? Regardless of who Satoshi really is, Satoshi was likely employed somewhere in the field of computers/coding/programming/IT. This means that if it was Google, IBM, Samsung, Microsoft, or even some small time software company, they all would have a legitimate claim to ownership of bitcoin's source code.  Unless you think Satoshi was unemployed, this is the most plausible reason he/she had to hide their identity.

many rumors about satosi. some say satosi no, some say satosi is artificial. nobody ever knew, all just rumors that developed. but the real is the advantage on bitcoin. one thing to be grateful for.

I did assume he was a single person but I hope I am wrong because I have not seen anyone which this crazy idea before, Well yes we developers do think of crazy ideas like this but I am sure I have not gone at so deep mechanism like the private and public key concept. satoshi was a genius because he has exposed a lot of knowledge to learn to normal public. After all, it was bitcoin which have found my hidden talent.

Satoshi looks like someone with much dedication to his project, considering the amount of Bitcoin that he has, the life he can have with those and that IMO he is not using much of those as he would be much more likely to be exposed if he did.

P.S. I guess Satoshi may be a woman, just find using gender neutral pronouns attracting too much attention. Number-of-people-neutral pronouns even more so  :)

As far as I know, Satoshi is the developer of bitcoin and its component part-satoshi. I can assume that he hides his identity for fear of his life and health, as well as to prevent inconveniences caused by attention to popular and rich personalities

I think that Satoshi is not one person, but a whole team. And they in advance assumed that their idea would succeed, so they very well disguised their tracks.

Man, I am starting to think that someone, perhaps Satoshi/Mike Hearn himself has created spam bots that just spew nonsense on any topic that is created or bumped to the top of the queue that has anything to do with or mentions Satoshi.

He was the only one who benefited humanity
people are referred to as senior developers Satoshi.

As i know satoshi is a creator of bitcoin because he his identy It is always better for a decentralized application inventor to be anonymous. That helps the "community effect" where the community knows that the application belongs to the community.

I'm not him, so I don't know. Watching what is happening to the poor guy Newsweek attacked last week, it looks like it was a good decision to remain anonymous. There is so much misinformation in the media, regarding Bitcoin, I don't think I would want to be in a position where I was expected to defend my creation over and over again.

why did he hide his identy because If his identity was revealed, then he would not have a good life, because of all the media/government interference. The community has it's way, and everything is alright.

I  believe he has his reason to hide his identity and he could be the only one to answer the real reason why he is in hiding any other thing we might say or write will only be some guessing. For me, I think its better that way because if someone had produce something that is "ANONYMOUS" how are we suppose to believe that if he is just around for us to see couple with the popularity that the project has been able to amass over the years...

Lol, this isn't the first time I'm seeing this kind of question, the main reason is because he's probably scared of losing his life, he created a currency that has defeated a lot of other currencies. So it's better he doesn't reveal his true identity even if he's alive

y of Satoshi Nakamoto, the computer programmer who created the virtual currency bitcoin, is one of the most compelling stories in technology. In 2008, Nakamoto launched bitcoin with a white paper; in 2011, he vanished, just as the project was hitting its stride, his frequent forum posts and e-mails tapering off to silence. (In his last known correspondence, he told a bitcoin developer that he had “moved on to other things.”) The search for Nakamoto has a tinge of irony: it’s an old-school mystery born in an age of Internet-enabled access to all world knowledge, which threatens to make the entire concept of mystery obsolete. An endless series of apparent misidentifications by journalists over the years has only increased the intrigue. When an Australian entrepreneur named Craig Wright came forward last week to confirm claims made by Wired and Gizmodo last year that he is Nakamoto, his name trended for hours on Twitter, while his crisply parted hair and his generically handsome face were on the front page of Web sites around the world.


Then all digital hell broke loose. The bitcoin community is a hive of intensely opinionated geeks, and they began to poke holes at the evidence that Wright provided. Amid the torrent of skepticism—one respected security researcher labelled the whole thing a “scam”—Wright pulled a Nakamoto. He disappeared without delivering on a promise to provide “extraordinary proof” of his identity. He deleted his blog and replaced it with an apology, writing that he didn’t “have the courage” to continue to try to prove his case.

A definitive ruling on the identity of Nakamoto thus waits for another day, but for many it might as well never come. Amid the frenzy that surrounded the Wright saga was a refrain that pops up any time the latest candidate for Nakamoto is rolled out: Why does it matter? “At the end of the day, knowing the identity of Satoshi is about as important as knowing who created HTTP or HTML,” a bitcoin entrepreneur named Jason Weinstein told Slate. “Every day people communicate, socialize, get information, move money, and transact business over the Internet using these protocols without knowing how they work or who created them.”

In investigating the background of an inventor, we hope to learn something about innovation that can’t be gleaned from the thing itself. But to the bitcoin faithful the search for Nakamoto can add nothing of value. Bitcoin’s chief innovation is decentralization; its transactions are overseen by a distributed network of computers, which theoretically means that no central authority, such as banks or governments, can control it. The search for Nakamoto, the argument goes, undermines the anti-authoritarian premise of bitcoin. Andreas Antonopoulos, a well-known bitcoin entrepreneur, laid out this argument in a post on Reddit explaining why he declined an offer to meet Wright:
Identity and authority are distractions from a system of mathematical proof that does not require trust. This is not a telenovela. Bitcoin is a neutral framework of trust that can bring financial empowerment to billions of people. It works because it doesn't depend on any authority. Not even Satoshi's.
But the idea that Nakamoto’s identity is irrelevant is wishful thinking. Most obviously, Nakamoto’s identity matters because he is estimated to control four hundred and forty-eight million dollars' worth of bitcoin, which, if it were unloaded quickly, could seriously depress the value of the notoriously volatile currency.

The real Nakamoto could have a more fundamental impact as well: as _The _Economist pointed out, this latest saga unfolded during a heated “civil war” that has broken out among bitcoin developers over how to deal with an increase in transaction volume in the bitcoin network. The network processes transactions in batches known as “blocks.” As the number of blocks has increased, the network has become in danger of being overloaded. One side in the dispute wants to change the bitcoin code, increasing the block size to allow the system to process transactions more quickly. The other side sees this as a betrayal of the integrity of the original code, arguing that a change would lead to more centralization in the system (the greatest sin for a bitcoin believer) and consequent problems.


Wright told The Economist that he supports an increase in the block size. So do two bitcoin insiders—the former lead bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen and Jon Matonis, a former director of the Bitcoin Foundation—who publicly announced their support of Wright’s claim. In this context, the fight over Nakamoto looks more like the jostling of courtiers to install a sympathetic heir to the throne than an objective analysis of the cryptographic proof. Suggesting that it doesn’t matter who created bitcoin because no authority controls it obscures the political struggle that is already shaping the technology. If someone could prove that he or she was Nakamoto, that person could wield great influence in the controversies that surround the future of bitcoin.

There is a more abstract reason that one should care about the identity of Nakamoto. Unlike HTML or HTTP, bitcoin was an ideological project from the start. Bitcoin began in the imaginations of a group of geeks known as Cypherpunks. Beginning in the early nineteen-nineties, Cypherpunks promoted an extreme form of libertarianism, in which all forms of commerce—in anything imaginable—existed beyond state control. This would be enabled by advances in cryptographic software that could utterly obscure users’ identities, creating a state that Tim May, one of the founding Cypherpunks, called “crypto-anarchy.” Cypherpunks believed that a decentralized currency was needed to allow their crypto-anarchic utopia to exist, and bitcoin began as a technical implementation of this vision.

It is no surprise that bitcoin has found many backers in Silicon Valley; the founders of today’s billion-dollar tech companies often espouse a milder form of the Cypherpunks’ techno-libertarianism. It is most evident in the Silicon Valley fetish for “disruption,” the buzzword that celebrates technological innovation as an end in itself, with little regard for the costs to existing social relations. This ideology has motivated the development of amazing new technologies in the face of legal and economic hurdles, but it is also at the root of Silicon Valley’s widely criticized arrogance. It leads to missteps like Facebook’s ham-fisted, neocolonial “free basics” disaster, and the blinkered view that many tech elites have toward the lack of diversity in their field. Turning away from the question of Nakamoto’s identity is a way to deny the fact that bitcoin, like all technology, is ultimately, imperfectly, human. The world could use this reminder now more than ever.

I think Satoshi is a one person not a group. If it is a group,it will not able to hide its identity. He hide his identity. Firstly, I'm not Satoshi.Probably, I think that he is not interested to publish his identity. I also think that he help the people who are interested to work in online sector.He increased it's length

I think Satoshi Nakamoto is one person and he did the right thing, that left no trail. If he had stayed, the government could pull it and use bitcoin for their own purposes.

I'm curious about that too! Like who the hell is he? At first when i know bitcoin, i heard that 'name' a lot. I think it's another coin like bitcoin, but nah, satoshi is a person.
I think he didn't want to be wellknown? I mean it'll be hard for you to be famous. Moreover for something like this. And also, who knows it may threat your life if someone know your identity? Satoshi may has his own reasons why. Let's just respect it and not trying to find out more.

Or that name is just a pseudonym just to hide the real identity.  Jist like you said, he just do not want the attention and does not want to become famous although he is already.  Maybe it is just his nature not to be known.  Maybe programmers are like that.  Whatever his reason and whoever he is, thanks to him for his brilliant work.

This is why government is still seeking out of him until into these days but they do still end up on failing because satoshi do really knows how to hide himself without any trace just like on his creation which is bitcoin. If he decide to hide then lets respect on the actions have been made but im sure he was happy now seeing on his work that did succeed and now its being slowly accepted or adopted.

bitcoin peak is this year.
we all know satoshi, like the ever-evolving rumor. whether or not there is a satosi. has become a legend of bitcoin creators.

I have often wondered if it was a group or a single individual, I would like to think it is just one person.

Hiding their identity I think is a really good move on their part as now a few years on from it's creation we can see how desruptive bitcoin is and how it is worrying governments and the banking cartel, could you imagine if they had a figurehead for bitcoin, his or her life would be extremely stressful.

Its a person whose real name is obviously something else. Very few people really know him admin theymos is one of those few. I think he hide his identity so he can be safe in this cruel world of hackers and live in peace.

I think shatoshi hide his identity for his sefty.because he is the owner of this electric technology and I think he has lot of coins.

Nobody know who is Satoshi a lot of people think he is just a guy but in my opinion I think Satoshi is a group with several members cause I think to create Bitcoin is not easy and nobody can do it alone. Beside why he has to hide his identity I think because it's really dangerous cause if anyone know who is Satoshi they will let everyone in the world know it and some crime will try to attack Satoshi to get every Bitcoin being held by this group.

No body knows who is Satoshi Nakamoto is incorrect.

Satoshi Nakamoto is his Japanese pseudonym. I am Moses ! BitcoinMoses. Only I know the real Satoshi Nakamoto who is the inventor of the  bloody Bitcoin. He is not any one of the bloody Bitcoin community leaders. Many of the bloody Bitcoin community leaders know who is Satoshi Nakamoto but they won't tell you that because they are the MF555.

Nobody knew the real person behing developing the blockchain and BTC. Some says Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudo name used for the developer of BTC. Other says it is the team of developers who is called as satoshi nakamoto. Many people around the world claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto at timesbut none of them is able to prove that he is the real one that invented BTC.
So it seems to the next BIG mystery of the globe.

Is this for real? Is it just me or are nearly all the responses here just shit posters on signature campaigns or profile padding?


He did not have any reason to fear for his safety. He left when bitcoin was 24 cents. A fast food hamburger cost 20-30 more than a Bitcoin when he went silent here.  Bitcoin only had value of any kind for 4 months prior to his departure.
Adam Back, Hal Finney, Wei Dai, and Nick Szabo were not pseudonyms. Did they fear for their safety? No.
Why would he hide his identity if it wasn't for his safety?  Because he was employed by a tech giant that would be able to make the project proprietary through intellectual property claims. 
This is also why you are wrong by claiming he is not the owner.  He has made it so nobody owns it. Not Google. Not Coinbase. Not Gavin. Not Greg Maxwell. And especially not Satoshi.

So what about Google? Do you think they would have kept the blockchain private or open sourced it?
https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
I am fairly confident they would have kept this thing closed source and proprietary.
Which is why I believe Mike Hearn is the most likely candidate to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2146520.0

+1 excepting your last sentence. I lean heavily toward James Simons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons) of Renaissance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies) being behind SN.

https://math.berkeley.edu/~berlek/pubs/bloomberg.pdf


James could've easily put together an A-team of cypherpunks to create Bitcoin with perhaps Nick Szabo being the public-facing voice of SN.

KK, funny imagine the day he appears, it will be a lot of movie scene  ;D .

Nobody Know who he is or he even exists or not. Only Satoshi Nakamoto, himself, can unfold this mystery. I don't think there is any person called Satoshi Nakamoto, Developers just created a propaganda, But now everyone is looking for real Satoshi, they can't say it is all lie.

Satoshi is the maker of bitcoin. He hid his identity because of the fear that government will try to arrest him. A lot of criminals and scammers are using bitcoin, but before that satoshi knew if he made a online valuta many hackers and scammers would use it. So he hid it mostly because of this. It could be also a possiblility that he didn't want fame so much.

I see SATOSHI as an angel sent from the other world to deliver pauper from the bondage of poverty,he is an unseen being, sent to give voice to the voiceless in the global world, I can imagine Satoshi somewhere smilling at what he deliver to the world,without any permission or government interferance,the only coin accepted globally officially and unofficially.

I agree that nobody knows whose person is that and he don't even showed up on tv or had any interviews like those prominent persons. All I know that those devs around the world just made him a myth for all who knew bitcoin so far and that name satoshi really became so popular in terms of bitcoin unit. The smallest unit of bitcoin now a big time profit for every trader, because every satoshi counts of all trades they've been a part of specially buying and selling the unit satoshi is always a part of every transactions of tradings particularly on altcoins tradings.

He is a very intelligent person, if it were a group of people at least one would have already spoken, but nothing, nobody is pronounced, my opinion was a person who maybe died and really deserves a prize for resolving an economic problem that has more of 1000 years....


The owners of the banks hate me.
https://s1.postimg.org/6zyz2fn627/nnnnnnn.png

I think that's only because he wants to live free , he hide his identity for the long time because he just didn't want to make his name popular in the sense that it may disturb him from being someone who lives independently and peacefully . I think he created bitcoin because he wanted  to change something in the world not to be popular for his own sake.

Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the unknown person or persons who designed bitcoin and created its original reference implementation. He was the father of Bitoin. Maybe the reason why he hide his identity is to protect itself from other because internet now can easily hack some maybe he was trying to hide himself so that hackers can not know its identity or information about him that can use to steal bitcoin. We know that in digital currency can easily hack by expert hackers because it uses internet to work. It is also possible that it was a community but i am pretty sure that he was a person.

nobody can answer this question, right now no one people can solve this puzzle, who is satoshi nakamoto, some people in the world confess that the are satoshi nakamoto, but we can't believe this because they can proof that confession.

Satoshi to start digital currency, and he/she long time gave service bitcoin forum.For his/her now bitcoin get this place. however many forum moderator think that, satoshi was one moderator.

Exactly. And on top of that, he has at least half of million bitcoins in his wallet. Imagine what this amount could do if it fell into someones malicious hands?

1.5 million bitcoins is equal to 9 bn USD.
People kill for less.

If i were Satoshi and i envisioned the potential of bitcoin to be where it is, i would have done what he did.
Also for bitcoin to be trully decentralised, Satoshi had to stay anonymous. His anonymity is critical to the identity of bitcoin as a trully decentralized cryptocurrency.

I think that the legends about Satoshi seem to be a really effective marketing technique ;) This “secret” attracts a lot of new people.

Well then, maybe the reason nobody stepped forward to face everyone as Satoshi is because of this. Maybe it is because of the crowd wanting everyone to know him/them and to get a better view of their world and what it is like. Everyone is making out a big issue over his identity just because he/then remains unknown until now, well then, what more if he/they really introduced themselves as the creator of bitcoin. Don't you think there will be a bigger crowd than this to entertain, to explain into, and to handle?

No one really knows the truth. So let's just keep it as a mystery. There is a beauty in what is unknown. Let's just acknowledge that he/they, indeed is like Prometheus and has given us all, mankind, a gift, which is bitcoin. Case closed.

You have literally answered your question with your question. We have no idea who Satoshi is. That is what generally happens when geniuses hide every trace that they ever existed after refashioning the world do economics and making his currency flourish for a decade. Why did Satoshi hide his identity? Well, that also is not known. Perhaps he doesn’t like media attention or something like that. I have no idea why he didn’t reveal himself to the world. No one knows? Did anyone know him in person? Well, you could ask the early devs and people you were a part of this forum in the very beginning. Is Satoshi one person or is it a community? This also is not known. Everything about Satoshi is very mysterious and hidden.

In my opinion we don't know until now if who is Satoshi, because he wants her life have privacy and to protect herself.  He is the person who create bitcoin and become success, and right now he is happy and proud to see that bitcoin is successful around the world.  Satoshi is hiding his identity because he wants also give opportunity to the people to earn and invest in bitcoin. Until now we don't have any idea who is Satoshi and why he is hide his identity and that questions he is answers soon.

In my opinion Satoshi is a group not a single guy and the reason why Satoshi has to hide the identity because he's Bitcoin creator so maybe he's holding a huge amount of Bitcoin, I think, so if anyone know who is Satoshi they will try to find out the way to stolen this amount of Bitcoin or trying to take advantage of Satoshi to ruin Bitcoin.

Here's to hoping that your word-spaghetti post passes muster in fulfilling you sig commitment.

It's not just you, but remember, this forum is part of Satoshi's legacy too  :D

Maybe that was by design though... to bury the origins under a mountain of shitposts  :-X

satoshi is a bitcoin maker or a bitcoin inventor, he hides his identity because he could be the target of an irresponsible person, he just wants to keep himself from a person or a person like that.

It is also possible that Satoshi Nakamoto knew some academics who could answer some (carefully worded?) questions when he had them. He definitely stayed awake in whatever college-level economics class he took.

Satoshi is the creator of bitcoin and as we can see now bitcoin has a very high price at this moment so if he/she/they shows his/her/their true identity in public, it will cause a great danger into his/her/their lives. Until no one as in no one knows satoshi's true identity but the only think we all know is satoshi nakamoto is a pseudonym and a genius one. Thanks for satoshi in creating this digital currency for us. :)

He or satosi hide himself and do not want to show his true identity because he does not want to be a target of people who do not like him because he or satosi is the creator of bitcoin, that's one reason why he hid his identity