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Almost every day a new person comes up with the claim that he/she is the real Satoshi. The real satoshi surely does not want any kind of fame. If he/she/they want fame he could have disclosed his identity earlier. But what could be the possible reason that Satoshi still hides his identity? Does he have a big plan for the future?

For the betterment of bitcoin in general. If he/she/they didn't go to hiding, the media would be giving Bitcoin some sort of "labels". For example, if Satoshi was a Trump supporter, headlines would be "Bitcoin founder is a Trump supporter" or something, potentially making non-supporters of Trump dislike Bitcoin. (I'm not saying that I'm a Trump supporter/hater. This is just an example.)

Also, idk, I'm quite sure the government would be on Satoshi's ass for creating something that could potentially dethrone the United States' official currency. Satoshi would probably be kidnapped by the government or something.

These are just 2 of many.

It's simple,
When Satoshi Nakamoto reveals his true identity many people will take interest and find her and use his knowledge to control bitcoin secretly.

We do not even know if satoshi nakamoto is still alive or not.

This question was already been asked frequently in this board and the threads keep bumping 'cause of repetitive answers.

Satoshi is obviously happy with his/her life and I think he/she's already satisfied with what he/she already achieved. I think there's no sense if we knew who's the founder 'cause it has advantages and disadvantages that can happen, one of those disadvantages is more problems regarding crypto and probably, politics will be included in this situation.

I hope that this kind of topic regarding him/her must be avoided 'cause it'll just create non-sense statements and in a worst-case scenario, spamming.

Do that means that you are claiming that the current developers like Max and Luke are control bitcoin according to some super invisible power  :P.

Now that is a reason, he does not want individual celebrity status and wants bitcoin as a technology to thrive and not create celebrities.

Maybe you find some difficulty and issue from the the world centralised market giants.
Obviously everyone wants to see Satoshi space and learn is identity but from 2019 onwards everyone trying to search who is he but none has confirm that exactly the right person.

It's possible that there will be some people who wants to take advantage of him because of his capabilities and they are going to do it because of their own benefits, it can be the reason why Satoshi hides himself in public. Also, maybe there is a personal reason behind it or he's just too smart enough to think about the possible things that may happen if he's here since of course it has positive and negative effects to him and in bitcoin. It just makes me realized that I should should just accept the fact that he doesn't want too much attention from people and respect his decisions because we can't do anything about it.

OP,  this topic has been discussed so many times on this forum and btw, why do you care to know his identity. bitcoin has been in a good probably because he didn't reveal his identity and things might go wrong if he tries to.

Of course they are going to be on his ass. No government would want the citizens to have their freedom. They only care about printing unlimited supply of fiat. We are not sure what actually happened to him after his last message on this forum.

There really can be many reasons. First, Satoshi was a member of the Cypherpunk movement, and privacy in the digital age was their main goal, so it really not surprising that Satoshi choose to stay hidden. His invention challenges the power of the banks and governments, and while I doubt that they would have done anything against him - after all, many other developers are public people and they don't face any harassment from the government; it makes sense that Satoshi decided to remain anonymous, since he was the pioneer and it wasn't clear how the government would react.

Also, some people just prefer to stay anonymous, or publish some of their works anonymously - there's a lot of examples of it happening in history. Not everyone likes fame and public attention.

In my opinion there are tons of reasons to want to stay anonymous. Including not wanting to have a bullseye painted on your back for hackers and blackmailers, having a sensitive job that may not like you being involved in this, having an abusive current or former spouse or just in general preferring to not be fucking harassed by internet trolls for the rest of your life. However, personally, i think Satoshi knew that the market had to be more important than the creator of the market. otherwise you just have another authoritarian system where his word would always be more important than market factors. so he decided to remain anonymous.

I have seen lots of posts regarding the "who is real satoshi" like that. But I haven't seen any posts like "why he doesn't want to reveal his identity'.

Of course, there are two possible reasons 1. He is trying to hide from the gov.
                                                             2. He still has some plans.
I have no curiosity about his identity but I have a curiosity about his plan. Because bitcoins future is related to his future steps as well. 

Bitcoin is not dependent on what satoshi's plan is. At most, he could crush the market temporarily by dumping his coins, but that would be the best ever thing that happened to Bitcoin. It basically means that the one person owning such a ridiculous number of coins has eliminated himself and made sure the distribution of coins became way healthier than it was before.

Even if you dislike Bitcoin, it makes no sense to dump it all. Bitcoin is such an economical success formula that holding is the best course of action.

I think that the second thing is an important point. Not only the US, but many authorities from many countries can be very pissed with a person that challenges the status of fiat and gives people new opportunities. Moreover, Satoshi would probably have to go to court on tax evasion charges and be forced to give a solid ton of money to some government because of being that state's tax resident. Apart from that, this person would have to live with attention to every aspect of one's life and the lives of those who are dear. It's a step you make, and then there's no way back from insisting journalists for the rest of life. So yeah, there are many good reasons why this person does not reveal identity.

For creating something which do really impose a big threat to fiat and other centralized thing then for sure he would really be followed nor even be killed if his identity is being known.

No fool or creator of BTC would easily let himself known to public yet he would know the risk.Im sure that even satoshi wasnt even expecting for BTC to become this big.

Maybe just not the time but the long-awaited hour is at hand ;) One of the most likely reasons may be a dislike of excessive publicity. Someone like Elon Musk or the late Steve jobs use their popularity to promote and manage their projects and someone throws a seed into the ground and watches on the sidelines for the result.

Whatever satoshi's plan is, its not related to BTC anymore. I think he said it also before he disappear. All that he did in the past were recorded in the forum and so what he said was that he is "Moving on to Other Things..." which I would only think bigger than BTC. WE see BTC to be grandeur but he must be seeing bigger than what BTC can achieve and sure his privacy matters more for him.

Well that's the answer only satoshi can answer. May be he died natural death in Bitcoin early days and wasn't his desire to remain anonymous. Some says Bitcoin is created by secret services of big powers, some says he committed suicide and the stories goes on and on. This is biggest mystery of 21st century that still remain unsolved.

You know, looking through the whole list of new topics created for the last week, only 5 from them are about Satoshi... How do you think, in case real Satoshi was online and with open access for all the participants from the Bitcointalk and for the whole World will his life be easy?... And comfortable?))))) In my opinion he will become crazy because of all  these questions in just 24 hours... ;D.  ;D  ;D in case this is a person, real person, I think he or she prefers to stay calm and just do what he like))))) but not every day all 24 hours to fight off the journalists, paparazzi, crypto enthusiasts and so on like from the annoying flies))))) with all my respect to people I think they would make real Satoshi a madman....))))))

Isn't it pretty counterproductive to end up making your own coin, that promotes decentralization and doesn't really fit in to what the government wants from you, and then end up revealing yourself, and your ID to the world?

Bitcoin is about having power, and when you show everyone that you made it, people feel a bit less in control of their own money, even though that isn't the case.

This combined with the government's constant hunt for the real Satoshi, means that no one will ever endanger themselves, so we'll likely never find out who it is

He created something which would disrupt the whole financial system. Don't get me wrong, the financial system don't need bitcoin to collapse, it is doing just fine by itself but satoshi will be the guy they'll blame because what he came up with is obviously a better system than what we have now.

You would do the same if you like to keep yourself alive.

Why don't Vitalik hide too? It is because he is full of shit.

Satoshi is more of a group than a person and I believe it is a secret meant to be kept by this people. Looking at the trend there is no way this truth could have been kept for this long, he started this forum with some friends according to history. He handed it over to the present moderators and they say they dont know him again, who is deceiving who? For anyone coming around at every point is just trying to make a news. Maybe we should just stop looking for satoshi

Only people who are new in the crypto space will fall this. Knowing the identity of Satoshi is really not necessary in terms of mass adoption and improvement of the entire blockchain network. I don't really get it why people are so interested in knowing the identity of Satoshi. Satoshi wanted to remain anonymous, if he didn't want that he would have added his identity to the whitepaper he wrote for bitcoin.  This should tell you that all these people are just fraud. Its better to focus on promoting bitcoin rather than trying to find the identity of Satoshi....

If he/she reveals his/her identity then for sure many people will attempt to look for him/her to ask frequent questions and many scammers or hackers will get interests his/her knowledge for them to know how to easily scammed and hacked a lot of people and accounts using cryptocurrencies. Politics will surely involve once it reveals and I think it is just a big problem that happens.

Because if he reveals it he will be exposed to all sorts of accusations, drama, theft attempts.
Who knows what else brings to him. Such exposure could even lead to his death.

Some might not like bitcoin thus wanted to kill it for better value on other coins as for instance Bitcoin Cash.
Others could actually try to persuade Satoshi to make their wills / desires worth for.

These are some of the reasons why he probabily won't do such thing.

Satoshi remained anonymous to protect him/herself and to protect bitcoin, so that no one person could be in control, or be seen as the master of bitcoin.

Security is the main reason.

If you see those rich people, they always have security on their side because anytime somebody can do bad things to them. Same with Satoshi but this time, Satoshi doesn't reveal his/her identity at all unlike the rich people there who are very famous. Either way, revealing the true identity of Satoshi can't help Bitcoin in terms of adoptions and popularity.

Until today after bitcoin created no one know who is Satoshi and where his come from, I think Satoshi keep hidden his self because want to keep safety his self from many people and government ask how much bitcoin he has, I think he want to private his self with anything about bitcoin and altcoin, maybe he want enjoy his life without not information about him.

In my opinion satoshi nakamoto anonymized his identity because he might know that if the public knew him, the government would definitely ask him to work together so that bitcoin could be controlled or managed by its central organization to benefit them.

and I'm sure satoshi has planned all of this to remain silent forever.

It definitely is very counterproductive. Hence why most of the community almost never takes these claims seriously, and lean more onto some people like Szabo and Finney to be the real Satoshi(as they don't claim to be Satoshi in the first place). It's pretty obvious that these claims made by multiple people only made the Satoshi claim for personal gain one way or another.

The problem here is that people always claim to be the real Satoshi, instead of being productive in the face of cryptocurrency and bitcoin, the most efficient way is to focus on how we could develop cryptocurrency other than proving we are the real Satoshi because it isn't helping at all. If the real Satoshi would consider showing again, then the only reason I could think is for him to fix if the protocol of Bitcoin experiences an exploit. But since it is already strong enough and can withstand challenges, I don't think there's any reason for him to come again.

In fact there are so many people who are claiming that they are the real Satoshi Nakamoto but we don't know if that was true or not. There is a lot of possible reason why Satoshi are still hiding his identity to the people and one of the main reason was, security. If he turns himself to the public then maybe the government will get him and try to get some relative information about the cryptocurrency and bitcoin so that the government will be able to control it, and another reason is because Satoshi Nakamoto is afraid that dome people will try to kidnap him because he is rich or he have so much bitcoins. There are a lot of possible reason why Satoshi Nakamoto hids himself to the public.

 
Nobody can claim that they're the legit Satoshi, because it sounded ridiculous revealing a real identity despite that name hid for so many years just to be anonymous. Being Satoshi it doesn't mean a single identity, but a group of businessmen who came up to that code name of Satoshi Nakamoto. This was a hidden identity which cannot be opened to public and any disclosure of true identity cannot be traced because it consists of many people who've been a part of bitcoin's long time business.

I think some of the reasons Satoshi hide himself were because of security (fear of terror or threats), fear of being taxable, and the last one wanted to really live quietly and away from the media (this is my personal opinion)...  but whatever the Satoshi reason, personally I really admire him, he really is someone who deserves respect, he is really one of the world system modifiers.

I don't think Satoshi predicted that his work or bitcoin is going to be the future we don't really know if he is still alive,
If Satoshi predicted this we know that bitcoin was a big amount of money and as a maker of bitcoin he should be at least be able to crack the bitcoin,
I think Satoshi hiding his identity was better because bitcoin was already a big deal in a lot of countries and having someone owning it or having someone that has a big percentage of bitcoin could affect the bitcoin so much.

The only people can review now is the blockchain that he invented and people trusted it until now, therefore there is no harm or risk in using it, its all transparent and we don't need to know the real identity of satoshi, its not necessary. For me, his reason is to protect his wealth and he can live a free and normal life where he is not afraid that there are people thinking of robbing him for his btc holdings.

was at the magic table(group effort) and the firepit(#Bullshit), two incidents that were 20 years apart... ::) if im not then we will never know who is.

The windmill should be in the x40-x250 tile range. Start from the middle facing each other and work in opposite directions.

First, did you just assume Satoshi's gender, we are not even sure if it's a he/she/they or whatever. Satoshi staying anonymous is playing true to the technology which Bitcoin portrays :- decentralisation and anonymity.
If Satoshi is known, then the safety and continuity of Bitcoin will be seriously threatened. The government can do anything to make sure the technology is wiped out.

It has a point, actually if the developer itself wasn't able to become anonymous, then how can we make sure that our identity is hidden as well. It proves that by the creation of bitcoin, we clearly had the anonymity we wanted and a hassle free transaction. If the developer of bitcoin will be known, then the security he took care of for a decade will put to waste.

Maybe Satoshi didn't want to influence Bitcoin's development so we don't know who, didn't want many people to know and could damage Satoshi's life or life and whether everyone knows the truth Who will they do and affect Bitcoin in general.

This action was one of the best that Satoshi has done: it cannot be censored, blackmailed or pursued. He learned from the history that had already happened.

I think Satoshi hides his/her true identity to make sure of his/her family safety.
Satoshi might want to have a normal life out of the spotlight out of all the controversy and safe from potential threat.
Government and also illegal syndicate would want to get him/her for his/her invention.

I think he already reveal her identity with the name of "Satoshi Nakamoto" we only don't know a lot where he actually staying or her families and everything about him. maybe he don't want to expose that much of her life only her name or code name " SATOSHI". many will appear every year, month or day but they couldn't get the atention of all people if the real one didn't log in in this forum.  if someone log in with true account and reveal her self to everybody then that's the day that everyone will believe and all of old users back and have a faith to bitcoin's era.

If I'm also in the place of Satoshi, I will not also reveal myself. He created something that will change the traditional process or platform and it will be hard to know who will be interested on him to support or to distract him as he invented something useful at the same threatening to others bad activities.

If you knew you are a star, a virtual star and has a lot of fame but nobody knows you personally because you've kept yourself anonymous since your childhood and even during your stardom by not sharing your identity with anyone, I believe the crisp of this anonymity is really mesmerizing and I don't think you or anyone (like Satoshi) would want to break it down. Maybe Satoshi is scared that his invention would suffer if he shows up as crypto is all about privacy, so he is not interested in exposing himself yet?

I think that internet technology is very fond of mysteries, it makes sense that Satoshi's identity will cause a debate or subject of many people, however various theories have emerged regarding Satoshi, but the results have never been obtained.
There are many reasons that can be debated why the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is hidden.
For example:
1. in my opinion it can be said, that Satoshi hid his identity with the main reason, he wants to protect himself or at the same time Bitcoin, I think that is the best element for security.
2. If, Satoshi's identity is known, maybe as a media, the crypto community, ICO never go home and stop pursuing Satoshi.
3. For the time being many countries are opposed to bitcoin, maybe if Satoshi's identity is known it will be given the consequences, and also this is for security for Satoshi and his family from dangerous threats.
4. Or it can also remain anonymous, by letting bitcoin develop by itself with the sophistication of the current era that is developing.

If we look at the world political scenario and the world economy 10 years ago, we can see that satoshi Hides his identity because of political issues. But the current scenario would not change much whether If He appeared or not. Then comes your question: why does he keep hiding? in my opinion he may be dead.


This could be a good reason in the past, but there is currently no reason for him to do so, just see how many cryptos projects there are and their creators are not anonymous and are alive and giving lecture in many countries around the world.

A lot of possible reason that we are not really sure what the real reason is. Probably, he just don't want attention. Maybe he's contended with what bitcoin has achieved. Or maybe because he wants to live like a normal person, or he's afraid of his security when he reveals himself. I believe that Satoshi is a single person because if it's a group, they should have created another project. Or they can just reveal their group to be known.

It was just an experiment when Satoshi created Bitcoin. He knew all too well that Bitcoin could just as easily have failed because the demand wasn't there or for some other reasons we will never learn.

I like his open mind while if you look at how today's perma bulls think and talk, it's like they are blind to anything else that's happening in this space. Never ignore an industry that could potentially help Bitcoin become better too.

There are so many plausible answers that I've read in this thread alone. Good ones actually. Bottomline, we should rest our case on Satoshi. He has so many reasons to stay hidden and not divulge his identity. It is actually doing him a favour for not disclosing his identity. And I believe, he doesn't need any recognition or any award for inventing bitcoin. He maybe found peace already - in mind, heart, body or soul. If you are happy and contented for what you are right now, are you going to ask for anything more? I don't think so.

Satoshi just have done the right thing, he's really an intelligent human being foreseeing the possibilities of exposing himself from the very beginning of his creation.
Now, as the time passes by, little by little we are pushing away the chances of finding who is the real Satoshi. Even if he reveal himself just for the sake of social experiment, I think people will never believe him.

Why do we need to ask things like this again? This has been discussed many times already, and can we just give Satoshi the respect. Let him enjoy his privacy and anonymity.

I think if Satoshi Nakamoto was actually revealed, people would be upset at who it may actually end up being, and with that said, that is assuming that it is a single entity/person at all. What if Satoshi turned out to be a governmental organization? Let's say it is one guy, you don't think governments will want to bring him in for questioning? Blockchain and Bitcoin is changing the way we as a collective handle ledgers and finances. This is threatening to the old way of life, and is hurting some organizations pockets, like the banks for example.

Anyone who said something about Satoshi's reason why he hides his identity is pretty much a guess.  Satoshi never leaves any message about why he will be mysterious.  Probably Satoshi is already dead (I hope he is not though) and had left all these unfinished and unpolished businesses/work regarding Bitcoins even before he decided to be known or reveal himself. 

'Satoshi Nakamoto' is his Japanese pseudonym. He used it hide his real identity not only for security  reason but few other thing. But the truth is by hiding his identity, he literally has revealed his identity. Say for instance, what is identity ?  Identity is a name given by his parent to to identify him. But that name is not his real identity because he might has chosen another pseudonym to identify his identity. Some times people do change their birth name and adopt a new name. So, Satoshi Nakamoto was his another new name for launching his Bitcoin and Blockchain project. Therefore, 'Satoshi Nakamoto' the  pseudonym has become his Internet name to identify himself. Now, he has created the Genesis Block which contained his finger print. Only he can decipher that fingerprint. If he need to give evidence then he will do it to prove that it is he the man who invented the Bitcoin and Blockchain. Only he can explains properly why he hid his identity ?

Eh, actually, we don't know that. We have no proof if Satoshi is a single individual(man/woman) or a group of people. Where did you actually get the information of Satoshi Nakamoto being a group of businessmen specifically? Feel free to prove us wrong if you have a valid resource.

Mostly only conjecture because Satoshi also does not provide an explanation for this reason. if in my opinion maybe he prefers to be people behind the scenes, not visible but providing technology that has a big impact, but I am sure that he has a big reason to hide his identity

From the date of it's creation from 2009 nobody knows about Satoshi Nakomoto who he/she is. May be hiding because of government or whether he is alive or not nobody knows.

Should be thankful to Satoshi Nakomoto because of him so many are surviving by using this bitcoin as their daily living.

May be he does not want any fame.

There are many theories but the two that seem the most probable to me are:

1. Satoshi is dead. We have tsunamis hitting Asia in 2010, many people were considered lost and their bodies were never recovered. There are plane crashes and car accidents.
He simply died before ever having a chance to reveal himself.
2. He's hiding because he doesn't want to endanger himself. US agencies would love to make someone like that work for them and you can't say no to these people.

Satoshi hid his identity because he needed to protect himself from outside threats, maybe some who liked bitcoin and some who didn't.
Especially now that bitcoin is very popular, of course many people who want to find out Satoshi's whereabouts then do things that are not supposed to. The main thing is his own safety.

Satoshi Nakamoto's popularity level became very large after bitcoin technology was increasingly used, and if he hid himself because he had a reason. from the beginning until now, his identity is unknown, I personally did not search in detail for Satoshi's identity.

^ This was also in my mind. He probably died and didn't even reveal himself as Satoshi Nakamoto. Probably if he still alive maybe there will be a sign that comes from to him but it seems nothing, it's like totally died. But in this case, we respect what he wants, hiding or just he was dead, respect of what he wants. Because this is what he wanted to be and probably even his family don't want to involve such as a controversial about Bitcoin and probably their lives will put endangered.

Being in Satoshi's shoes I'd be hiding too. You have to always watch pros and cons of every decision and weigh them.
What could he gain from coming out? He'd be attacked just like Dorian Nakamoto was. His world would be in ruins. No family life, paparazzi everywhere, death threats maybe...
If he ever wants his name to be in history books he can leave it in his last will and skip all the drama.

There are plenty of reasons why somebody that designed a system that could literally crash would governments would want to hide.

Firstly, what happens if Satoshi built a backdoor into the system? Not saying he did, but he would not want his identity known since this would prefer him from exploiting the backdoor.

Secondly, cryptocurrencies are designed to be anti-government. If he was born in certain countries, simply creating Bitcoin could be considered an afront to the government and be punishable to some extent.

More realistically however, Satoshi is likely deceased. It has been a decade since he created it. Assuming he was 50 when he made it, that would make him 60 now.

Based on there being around a 20% chance of dying each decade between 50 and 60 years old, there's a good chance he simply kicked the bucket.

it is easier to suppress a system that is not wanted by the government, if the founder is known to exist.

I believe Satoshi will be ostracized in such a way and even worse than Julian Assange if he really appears. Regarding age and death, it would be very bad if the actual conditions were known in general, because the decentralized freedom system would also cause invalid claims and continue to emerge from false successors.

No one can stand against the nature, and there are chances that he might have died out of something. It can be of Tsunami, accidents or some other health problems. He preferred to stay hidden which also needs to be considered, because if he gets revealed it becomes the network going under his control. Another thing even if he's alive staying hidden is always good, because surely he'll receive threats from governments.

This is the beauty of bitcoin. It is as if a single authority created the coin and then disappeared among the crowds so that the whole system remains truly "DECENTRALIZED". If people really knew who Satoshi was, then anything he said would have caused serious impact on the system. People would consider him as the single "leader" of bitcoin. But a true decentralized currency has no single leader and no single authority in charge.

No one knows for sure why Satoshi hid his identity. And certainly the reason for not being known to people is a logical and best reason for him. Like bitcoin which is anonymous then why is the creator anonymous too. So we don't need to believe the statements of those who claim to be Satoshi, just prove it with his wallets.

Not only that we don't even know it's 1 person or a group of individuals.In any case, it would be better for the bitcoin and cryptocurrency community if we did not find out who Satoshi is. If everyone finds out who he / they are, then on the one hand everyone will admire them and on the other hand they can be punished and poured with dirt.

I can't really tell why Satoshi Nakamoto is hiding, but I have always thought of the possible reasons that can cause him to remain anonymous and things that always comes to mind are – maybe he's hiding from the wrath of big banks?

Although I have seen some people claim that banks are not worried about cryptocurrency, I don't think that is true. Central banks are run by influential people, and I don't think any of these people would be happy seeing Bitcoin ruin their businesses for them. The next thing is the angry Wall Street, lol. People like Warren Buffet are seriously against the use and investing in Bitcoin, and that's another long story, you can search that up on Google.

Other things that also comes to my mind is that maybe he's someone that likes privacy or he's ...dead? :( But in the other way round, if there's a risk in being Satoshi Nakamoto, then why are people still claiming to be him? Well, I'm just really confused anytime I think of this.

The main reason why satoshi didn't want to reveal his identity is because he is the main for the decentralization of bitcoin. He knows everything the code and how blockchain works. That's why if the FBI or Interpol catch him. He might force to take down bitcoin which he might be capable of. This is just my theory and I have no concrete proof about my claim.

Well, it has a point, where he created a decentralized coin, if ever the creator itself wasn't able to hide his own identity, then the decentralization he works hard to be made will nothing but a waste. Everything he created might be put in danger of shutting down or fall under control in the hand of someone.

I think there are many reason that make Satoshi hides his identity. Privacy is an important feature of Bitcoin so he want to do the same to his identity. Now we can see that the governments want to shutdowns Bitcoin and imagine what will they do if they know its father.

Yes, there are so many possible things to happen if the real satoshi will identify himself. It can bring something bad since the brain behind bitcoin will be identified and taking over or controlling it will be possible if this will happen.

I think this is a major thing, not just because he has a plan but because he wants it to take longer in this industry. If a lot of people know his identity, I think there are a lot of people that would also try to destroy it through using him. That would also mean, for example, he is a from country x, the government might join the debate and might try to centralize bitcoin.

Regardless on his reasons, let's just respect and accept his decision of hiding his real identity from the public... He is a smart and intelligent guy so I think he has his deep reason why he chose to be anonymous. He could now just enjoy watching us use it, he could be earning lot right now but hr didn't. What if he wanted to reveal himself but he just can't?

Creating an entirely new currency can have many legal consequences. Maybe Satoshi Nakamoto anonymously helped him avoid legal consequences, contributing to the success of the bitcoin.

Given the popularity that Bitcoin has already gained and the popularity that will be in the future, it is simply not safe to remain a public person, personally for Satoshi as well as for the entire Bitcoin ecosystem.

Cargo pants?

I personally see "Satoshi Nakamoto" as a person or organization that really does all of this with a carefully calculated and structured plan. For the sake of maintaining anonymity, so that everything related to him is really a secret. So that there are no interested people or groups who are able to influence and control it. Or there are other plans that are still being worked on, who knows?
this is a debate, but what's in it for us? I prefer to focus on enjoying this information rather than thinking about things that are less important.

It’s probably to avoid the attention from governments. Bitcoin was created to bypass traditional banking and governments, so he would want to remain anonymous.

very simple. maybe if someone knew the actual satoshi they would easily meet satoshi and there might be a big action for bitcoin. so it is true that Satoshi must hide his identity at any time

Maybe your right OP. satoshi is not want that fame and he want a private life and btc is already helping him what he want so it is okay for him not to reveal herself to everyone and maybe soon that he want to came back and bring more improvement to btc in perfect time. for now we should respect her way and don't immediately believe those who say they are satoshi.

If satoshi did not hide his/her identity he will be targeted easily by the government or other parties who would like to get his idea about cryptocurrency. Also, include security, cryptocurrency and blockchain tech is revolutionary, it is one of the best innovation that was created in terms of financial and data storage. It changed how people transact and secure information, funds while remaining anonymous.

surely he would be more preoccupied by several institutions that wanted to know this technology more deeply, this could lead to an assumption why Satoshi Nakamoto did not want to display his identity. So far I have read many answers and I am sure that only Satoshi knows the real answers

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Wrong, you dont copyright things if you intend to remain anonymous, illogical.
https://i.imgur.com/Wttdzwv.png
It is not possible to pay with credit card anonymously for Bitcoin.org domain in 2008.
org as in organization is more likely an organization would choose not a individual.
 

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yes i agree with you if satoshi nakamoto introduces himself to the public. then bitcoin will not be a decentralized coin because there will definitely be people who will buy or master bitcoin and may even threaten satoshi to give up bitcoin.
Unknown to Satoshi, until the end of Bitcoin will remain a decentralized coin and move freely.

I think he do not want to be famous and for security reasons. I'm sure now he is happy of what he'd accomplished. We all know that bitcoin and cryptocurrency had a really big impact to world. Maybe he didn't even expect about it. And hiding himself is a very smart decision.

I believe Stoshi has developed Bitcoin purely with the concept of decentralization where noone in particular have control over Bitcoin. By revealing his identity Bitcoin may not be worth it is today as user around the globe may consider it something controlled by a particular company or a group of people.Stoshi may have some secret plan for the future of Bitcoin. There may be other reasons as well like he/she does not want fame or does not want anyone or any govt or private organization to interfere in his life. Real reasons only Satoshi can reveal.

It's not about the fame that he does not want. Fame is just a plus I think, what Satoshi really want I think is a change literally a major change in the financial system and it contradicts the government. What Satoshi is really protecting I think is his security, imagine your work started getting into government official nerves because most of them are against bitcoin plus all the bad people online, you think he'll be safe considering he is holding a ton of bitcoins.

I think he knew that his creation would shake the world. especially in the financial world. other than that. he has proven that bitcoin is decentralized, by hiding his identity and giving up everything about fame. this is bitcoin, real decentralization without control from satoshi. and nobody knows about satoshi.

I have to agree with this, being famous has an expense to his/her security and everyone on this field does not want that. Satoshi could've introduced what he has created to the mainstream media with cameras, press and all to credit all of his work but he didn't. He knows the value of his creation, Government could've done wrong if they know who he is. There is something valuable to him that he does not want to gamble for fame and that is the security and safety.

He owns the biggest percentage of the total supply if I am not mistaken, so maybe he prefer to be anonymous to be safe and live a normal life.
Owning a lot of BTC will not do good for you if that would risk your life, maybe that's in his mind, he ain't stupid because he is a Genius so surely he already anticipated all the possibilities that may endanger his life and just did the right thing.

Now, let me ask, what would it do to the market if satoshi will reveal his real identity?

Will it help this market to pump again?

the concept of bitcoin is to become anonymous  maybe satoshi really want to hide his own identity that why he creates bitcoin
there is also some possibility that he's dead because the coin that he owns is not even moving.

Maybe that is the first reason as he wanted to do this concept of anonymity, but I do understand that we all wanted to know him well as we wanted to thank him for what he did and we know that it's not an easy job for him to do this kind of creation, for sure it took him years before he finally developed it and he sacrifice a lot of things for this to finally happen.

I'm sure Satoshi will feel more secure and comfortable while still hiding his identity to the public. Just as Satoshi created Bitcoin with the principle of anonymity, that's how Satoshi applied it to himself. Whoever Satoshi Nakamoto is, I always pray for his health and safety.

Many reasons,
And whatever it is, only Satoshi Nakamoto knows it. You may be right that he has a future plan or you may be wrong. All of us are just speculations to say and this is no proof that it exists.

Therefore, it is not worthy that we do not ask this question over and over again because this conversation has no purpose, since only Satoshi can answer all the questions.

If someone really knew him in real life, its just this someone that knew him he is somebody. This someone who knew him can't even provide a prove if he really is satoshi.


He probably had developed BTC long before the 2008 financial crash. And since he knew its going to happen once again over and over like a pattern it did in the past bubble. He spread out blockchain to prevent it from happening again and again.

safety and comfort is not the right reason because some large cryptocurrency creators, for example, Vitalik Buterin showed himself and he remains safe

so I think Satoshi's reason is he really wants to be invisible (anonymous)

from the start, the aim of the questions raised by the OP was to speculate and share opinions about what exactly caused Satoshi to hide himself, there is nothing wrong with that

In my own point of view, the reaaon why satoshi hides his identity because there will be cases of kidnapping and hacking his wallet and personal informations, that is why it will be much better to hide his true identity as a creator of bitcoin for his own safety.

For a creator of bitcoin the top cryptocurrency in the market and the most valuable coin, Satoshi Nakamoto has his own reasons why he needs to hide his identity because he could be killed and get hacked by a lot of people, that is why not showing his true identity or personal information is the best way to avoid this kind of circumstances to his life and to live a normal person.

Satoshi hid for his own safety and not to cause any disturbance to the Bitcoin community with his presence. So far Bitcoin is doing good for the last 10 years and Satoshi knew that if he appears then it will create some trouble in the community since he holds a huge amount of Bitcoins.

Many people are confused why Satoshi Nakamoto hid his identity, even though if he opened his identity could be celebrities and famous .
Will be the speaker of various events and covered by various media from all countries. From that side it is true, however we have to see
the negative effects too. In my opinion before bitcoin is launched, Satoshi and his team must calculate the effect which will happen if
bitcoin is launched and used by humans, will endanger their lives. Because as we know very much many people do not like the presence
of bitcoin. So from that by hiding the identity of Satoshi's life is more safer.

I think satoshi conceal his identity because he did not want to become the target of the powerful countries who want to catch a very risky if he came out and a lot of media seeking him Satoshi Nakamoto is a phenomenon and many people around the world who want to know the Satoshi Nakamoto.

He certainly hide his identity because he might think there would be pros and cons about the legality of Bitcoin.  and of course he doesn't want to be held responsible if there is something negative like money laundering etc. because of his creates.

I think the main reason why Satoshi Nakamoto hid his identity is a security factor. because he knows if bitcoin can develop rapidly then its security will be threatened because there will definitely be a group of people or governments who don't like bitcoin. so maybe they will try to kill Satoshi. and also not knowing the identity of Satoshi then no one will know and can influence Satoshi so that Bitcoin will remain decentralized.

I don't know that there's a "lot" of people claiming his identity. If there's a really that number of people then I think they must be ashamed of themselves claiming all the credit. It's not a good idea for me. I think there's really no need to know who Satoshi Nakamoto is. The fact that he didn't reveal his name means that he wants to say anonymous. And I don't think that's too much to ask thinking about his efforts in helping us earn money.

We all know that everything that involves money has its risks so I as for me, Satoshi hides his identity for his own security. He wants to live a peaceful life despite the creation of Bitcoin. I actually admire him because he's not into fame or power, unlike those people who are claiming to be the real Satoshi.

No one can know who's the real Satoshi and no one can know his/her real identity so its hard to find out where he/she come from. And many are assuming or claiming that he/her Is Satoshi but until now no clue who he/her is. Maybe he have plan in bitcoin in the future that is why he don't want to know her/his identity.

Based on my opinion, if Satoshi didn't hire his identity, it wouldn't be as decentralized as it is today. Imagine if everyone knows the real Satoshi then the government might put too much pressure on Satoshi so that they can regulate it. Probably they would ask him to pay big taxes (I don't know if it's possible). Just imagine the government, big companies, threats are all coming for Satoshi... That's why I just think it's better to stay like this.

maybe this could make an excuse, if only Satoshi gave his identity, then the crypto could not be decentralized because politics could influence. and it could be people fighting over a place to become a ruler in it

Connect the dots.

Make yourself as an example.
You discovered something that could topple the financial market. Make changes to it.
How do you think you will be seen by the government and the rich?

It is like he just waited for bitcoin to have a little value and then he hide afterwards. I think he already knew that it will get more than what he had just seen in the first place.

The main thing is that if he would have shown his identity to the world then bitcoin would have become centralized as he would bear the responsibility of everything and also government could also find a way to defame him. But since bitcoin is not having a father so it have become community driven currency and the decisions are made by the people on what to do and the future of bitcoin.

It might be the one his reason, also, maybe he really wanted his creation to be known rather than him and it will be his greatest achievement, we don't know what's on his mind but for sure he's genius enough to realize all of this things, or maybe he's already dead just like what others are saying, just hoping that before the end of the year 2020 we will finally know who's the real Satoshi.

Doesn't want to get whacked I guess!

Because he has this Brain that not anybody might have so the meaning is all elements will look for him and might use him for their own purpose ,it is better if Good one but what if those bad elements will use him?can you imagine that satisfied will work for ISIS or even for North Korean government?and even if CIA will take him for sure this will give advantage to sabotage something that must be in private so I think it is much better that he keep in silence.and being anonymous