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What is your Satoshi theory?

Just wondering what everyone's thoughts are on Satoshi Nakamoto.

If he's not with us today, I'm sure he'd be appalled with the amount of money being printed by governments/central banks.

One of his legendary quotes are:

"If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry."

Is he deceased? Did he pass away from Cancer or some other grave illness?

Ehh, my uneducated guess he's just a dude that's currently just enjoying life in a beach somewhere, but whatever it doesn't really matter. There's no way for us to validate how true our theories and guesses are anyway. Well, unless Satoshi himself/herself/themselves unmasks himself/herself/themselves in public(with proof, of course); which I hugely doubt will happen.

My theory suggests that he/she is still alive and just decided to abandon the forum once in for all, he/she have the means to live 3 or 4 lifetimes with the bitcoin he have and I think you don't have anything you can ask for that. Or satoshi is a group of individual that splitted a long time ago.

My theory is he still alive somewhere in his room while he continues with the other project. He keeps busy to make something else, and if he thinks that he needs to come out from his place, he will surely meet us, but I don't think he will use the same personality. I think he is still watching this forum using another identity (or not). But I don't believe that Satoshi is one person because this bitcoin project is too big to think by himself alone, and it needs very high skills to create the network alone without any help from other people.

But we don't know anything about Satoshi. Let him work for what he did while we can continue his legacy, and make bitcoin keep alive for a long time so our great-grandchildren can also use bitcoin as what we did now.

However, no one can give an exact answer to Your question.Maybe Satoshi didn't exist at all. Otherwise, why did it become offline? There are still more questions than answers.

Just right after bitcoin became stable, I feel that there is no need for us to finally figure out who Satoshi is, or to try to think about how good is he now, because that remains to be respected that his plan for bitcoin is to become stable and working even without the knowledge of knowing the real identity of its creator. Right now, bitcoin will remain as the best currency (Crypto) in the world, and that will be a fact even without the support of its creator. I think we should learn from Satoshi now, not to forget him, but to just learn to appreciate his creation and let him remain anonymous forever.

At this point it is very hard to tell reason why is, as the creator of this wonderful technology standing by and watch all the negativity and controversy comment from both the media and non media outlets about btc and not  able to respond could be very hard, it must take a lot of self control not to do so,

If he is still alive and don't respond to any of this means he will never do so, or could be he is not responding because he is no longer alive, since nobody ever knew who is the person behind btc, I doubt anyone can ever know that or what happened to him, so it will remain a mystery.

I don't care. Left us a nice coin and forum, which we use because we find them useful, and that is that.

Money printing is nothing new, and worse is fractional reserve modern banks do, and yet most people are absolutely ignorant of it.

More like appalled, its bored. The same thing, always. I agree with not having time to convince part, its not a religion; your loss for not using it.

Everyone is wondering about his whereabouts and thats normal since all bitcoiners are fond of his creation. I think that still watching here on forum for quite sometime but right now, surely he is enjoing all his wealth through vacations.

But I do hope there will come a time that he will login here using his account and catch up and chat for a little while here. Surely that will be the most welcoming day here if ever thats gonna happen.

Most likely Satoshi is a group of people. And for obvious reasons, they don't reveal their identity.

There are a lot of theories, but the one i like to believe is he is more than one person, and they are alive. Satoshi is a group of hackers and coders who create bitcoins. Maybe a couple of guys in the group pass away. But not all of them.

Is just my theory, take it or leave it.

You know what? I don't really care.

It is his decision to leave his creation. It is not that I am a hater of him, I am also glad that I am one of those people that generated some profit out of the creation he made. He might have a reason for leaving Bitcoin and just think of it if he's here we might not be able to see the price of Bitcoin as it is right now. He has his reasons, we should just respect that.

it is a great mystery, if we think about the theory that he hid because he was afraid of governments, then today he would have no reason to hide from governments. that's why I believe he must be dead. because I see no reason for him to hide and not use bitcoin


if they were a group, at least one member of the group would appear to reveal their identity

By the line he said you can see hes a no nonsense guy. If you don't listen or believe to him, that means you are not part it and can go somewhere else.
Now if he doesn't want anything to do with the current market today, it could mean he's into more important things in his life if he is alive. There is no way to verify it but definitely he had done more than enough.

I think whoever is behind btc - group or single individual is still alive but seriously don't want to be found, could you imagine if the identity of whomever the person is will be revealed? There will be too much pressure from different angles that it will be difficult to breath :D
Better to stay anonymous and be alive but just watch from a distance the reaction of people.

I'll just want to use whatever legacy he/she/them created for I/we are fortunate over it, revolution started. I do care if SN is still alive it was just an act of appreciation for what he did if SN is dead I'd still do or we do. I can't wait the real story be revealed and watch it over on Netflix but I think it will be cover up, I doubt people will also believe that.

He/she/they is/are alive. Source: trust me.

Btw, i'm gonna be immensely dissapointed if Satoshi doesn't come out and posts a comment here talking about the global financial and economic fallout that's happening right now...Even just a few words will suffice like: "told you so..buy bitcoin"...Satoshi, you reading this, bruh? say something, ffs!  :D

I believe this too. I think Satoshi is definitely alive. And one day he will surely come up with the proof, proving that he is. But when it happens, nobody can say anything about it.

But I do not find it true that Satoshi is constantly being discussed in the forum in this way. I think Satoshi needs to be honored here, and the only topic pinned in here may be enough.

Everyone knows Craig is Satoshi.

The persona is dead, but the person is probably out there, trying to help the needy as much as he/she can. The dude might even be here still and just blending in among us, keeping a low-profile and doesn't want to meddle much with us anymore. Wherever Satoshi is currently, that's mere speculation from our minds, and even theymos who Satoshi last contacted, or at least that's what most sources say, don't know who the dude is, or where the dude lives.

The man is a genius--still remains anonymous albeit leaving some clues on who the person behind the name actually is.

In my opinion, the best narrative so far is that Dave Kleinman is Satoshi, and that Craig Wright and (perhaps) others were also involved somehow.

Mr. Kleinman is gone and the private keys are lost. That is why nobody has proven that they are Satoshi, why his coins have not been touched, and why Craig Wright thinks he can make people believe that he is Satoshi, but instead he looks like an idiot.

It could be completely wrong, but I think its the best one out there right now.

We don't know whether he is alive or dead, neither we want to know.

BTW, there's a new theory in the market about Wei Dai being Satoshi Nakamoto. Read below,

https://news.bitcoin.com/many-facts-wei-dai-being-satoshi/

Nothing out of the box like any other Satoshi claims but you won't feel bored while reading!

This has been discussed over and over again here a thousand times over.  Now I must admit it is a very intriguing "mystery" of who created this breakthrough technology that no one else was able to do before "them".  I however am glad that we don't know who satoshi is.  I personally think that all along satoshi knew that he would leave bitcoin for good early on in the process.  I feel that he knew that for bitcoin to be truly decentralized it needed to be free of an central figure.  By leaving, and never touching his coin wallet ( that we know of ) he's done just that.  Now there are several figures that I feel have the scope to be satoshi... Nick Szabo would be my guess first and foremost.  The guy is a genius who created bitgold and smartcontracts.  I also feel that Hal Finney might either have been satoshi or part of satoshi.

From my perspective, the person behind that pseudonym is alive and he choose to hide his identity to secure his family against harm from people who are opposing bitcoin. He just wanted to protect their safety, he's probably observing how people react and share thoughts with regards to his invention that changes the lives of many of us. In spite of his anonymity, i'm still grateful because I was able to grab great opportunities.

All bitcointalk members know Craig is an identity thief (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215128.msg53530464#msg53530464) and extreme liar. Don't believe in him, he misleads you. Satoshi would never do such a thing as Craig did. He is a supporter of anonymity, so surely his identity won't be revealed to the public.

Not my theory, but another conspiracy has popped out recently.

Monero fanboys, just hold your horses, New Evidence Suggests Bitcoin Founder Satoshi Also Created Monero. (https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/satoshi-van-saberhagen.html)

He passed away in 2014 due to illness. Please no more threads on this topic. Let the man rest in peace.

There is nothing much about Satoshi to build a theory all you hear are speculations and nothing else ;).

An intelligent group or individual who created a billion dollars market which could be well above a trillion dollars in the next ten years.

Printing money is not a new thing, it is a process that is going on for centuries and that is not going to end for centuries.

Here is the link for this quote : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=532.msg6306#msg6306

Satoshi made many legendary quotes
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2216.msg29280#msg29280 about Wikileaks
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=198.msg1647#msg1647 about lost coins
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=48.msg329#msg329 about mining and incentives
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671.msg13844#msg13844 how to hide from your spouse when your purchase porn :D

and many more, just posting these since you wanted to dig the nest ;) and for anyone who never bothered to check his posts.

May be an alien who created a billion dollar market and a reality check how you evaluation money and set sail in space ;D :P.

Theories must be based on at least some facts. They need a foundation. It is unlikely that we have anything here except speculation.

But we can freely speculate on this topic. I think that he is now reaping the rewards of his brainchild and living a good life.

He's probably alive, or at least I'd like to hope so.

No concrete evidence that really is and its hard to believe on certain proclamation by someone since even up till now no one can prove that they are really the real satoshi base on their claims and I will be convince here if he can message here by using the satoshi account and can able to make a movements on btc or provide a sign message for the wallet he use upon creation of bitcoins.



I also sometimes think that he passed away since he's identity still a big mystery eventhough his creation is so successful for the past years.

He's still alive, and I am sure about that. But we don't know where is he now, and I think we should let him choose what he wants because we cannot do anything to make him show himself. But theory will be theory, we cannot prove it, and sometimes, we should not think much about that. Meanwhile, we can continue to use what he introduced to us, and we should thank you to him that allows us to use bitcoin.

I think if Satoshi  is not a covid19 victims and not one of those thousands of deaths then he is still Alive. Anyway our comments here is just an speculation and not a theory since it has no basis. Theories are base on some facts that can be a proof of evidence regarding his personality.

He's probably chilling on his own private island where there's no shadow of COVID-19.. Or even if he was to live in some urban area, he surely is protecting himself from it.

Unless he'd ever come back and prove he's the real one, all will be speculation only.

There are many versions of what happened to Satoshi Nakamoto on the net and whether such a person really existed.  But anyway, these are just conversations or assumptions of certain people.  Just recently, I also read a specific story from a person who is the leading Bit Pay programmer Jeff Girzick.  He convinced people that he personally constantly talked with satoshi nakamoto on the bitcointalk forum until 2011, after which the connection was lost and he was convinced that satoshi nakamoto died back in 2013 from an infectious disease. Moreover, this person was convinced that Satoshi Nakamoto was none other than Dave Kleiman from Florida, who was disabled and since he was partially paralyzed, he constantly studied and worked on programming. Nevertheless, I believe that even this version does not have definite evidence.

I'm guessing that,unfortunately,he is not alive.
Think about it,he has 1M Bitcoins sitting in his wallet that are untouched for so many years.
Every other guy would probably sell a portion of those BTC and buy something.
I don't believe that Satoshi is so disgusted by his own creation,that he refuses to sell his BTC for fiat.
All theories regarding Satoshi Nakamoto are conspiracy theories.A conspiracy theory involves more imagination and guessing,rather than logic and facts.

Deceased.

Do you know anyone who could have billions in bitcoin and never touch it?

Neither do I, and sometimes the admiration (worship in some cases) causes people to forget Satoshi was still human.

I first read this and first thought of it as people wishing for him to be actually dead lmao. No offense though. Still, I doubt he'd be actually dead or something. People who could develop stuff like BTC aren't really into it for the fame, they just want to research on stuff and progress. And well, with how these stage of his project has already reached, I suppose he's lying low as a developer or probably researching more stuff out there. Just imagine, he pretty much has no problem with wealth already. There'd only be things he would probably do, which is either continue researching(whether it be blockchain or something else) or just calm down and live the life slowly somewhere. I'm more biased towards the former though.

It's quite difficult to reject fame, otherwise I'd say he's alive. I don't think he is dead otherwise I'd say he's dead. So, my head is stuck with this mixed thoughts about him. But maybe, he's alive out there, somewhere he isn't called or known as Satoshi. I just really hope that he's seeing what greatness his idea and effort has yield.

This is just my theory right now and I just think of it as I am posting this.

Probably Satoshi right now is everywhere. Satoshi can be your neighbor or Satoshi can be a politician or maybe Satoshi is one of the agents of CIA already. Satoshi is just there and isn't dead at this time. I believe that satoshi right now is happy that the invention he/she/they made which is Bitcoin is gaining popularity already around the world.

That is Satoshi's main goal, for Bitcoin to be used by the people worldwide aside from using it as a way of transaction where banks aren't needed when we do it.

Does it matter? That dude wants to stay off the public stream. I think we can all do him a favour and stop bringing up topics about him. At least he has left us a legacy we should be proud of and also be more focused on developing and building for the world to use. i don't know how talks about his whereabouts is going to do us any good or the development of blockchain technology in the near future.

I hope that it's true and he's alive. I wish him well and I hope he's never found. This is making him look more like a legend than a normal man. I wish him all the best and long life without reporters and crazy fans hiding behind every tree and every bush along his path.

I think he might be dead. I hope I'm wrong but millions die every year of cancer and when he disappeared there was that tsunami in Asia.

I will also theorized that if Satoshi is a single person, he is still living with us and obviously alive. Or probably having a job or something but just chooses to remain anonymous after all this years and venturing on other projects or maybe just living a simply life and just watching on the sideline. But as we have seen in recent years, we call everyone who is a bitcoin supporter, "We are all Satoshi". So much better to move on with our lives and just enjoy his creation and thank the legendary man.

I agree, at this point?? it really doesn't matter if he is alive or deceased. What's important is that his invention had flourished with or without him. Heck, there are speculations that there is a probability that it is a group of person so any theory that he is deceased doesn't hold any weight. And the good thing is that there are people who are willing to continue his legacy so that we all can enjoy bitcoin for the next years to come regardless if he is dead or not.

Does it really matter though? Anyone claiming to be him who can't prove it DIRECTLY ON THE BITCOIN NETWORK just wants to cash in on the position, if he's alive and well and in the future posts on this very same forum, happy, or sad at the direction that we took bitcoin, it'll be an inflection point for most, but in the mean time there's no point in speculating, he didn't want people to know who he was and I respect him for that.

Actually no one knows even the authorities the US government for example despite with their advance capabilities and technology for tracking and doxing they didn't catch the famous Creator of Bitcoin. So its impossible for us to really know how is he because he really doesn't communicate anymore through this forum and left many years. My guess is he must be living in an isolated area far from the city.

I don't care already if he still alive and just living peacefully somewhere, what I wish is that he just let his huge hodlings stuck on his wallet ;D. For God's sake, please! I don't want (I'm sure everyone as well) the market fall soo hard especially that btc's price got more stable little by little as time passes.

But seriously, it doesn't matter for me if he is really dead or alive because in my heart his legacy remains :).

For years now i have been seeing same question over and over again posted by different people.

But for me?i don't really care if what is His status now because i am more than thankful for what He gave us.

But i am Hoping that he is still alive and just staying silent and private.

We don't need to make him/her feel uneasy. I know that we're grateful to him/her but digging more to his/her identity would bother him/her. He/She doesn't hide behind doors for no reason, and going across the line seemed to show no respect, at least. Satoshi may be loves watching his/her creation work supposedly, and functions as to how he/she designed it rather than to have countless of recognition, not the type of guy who wants spotlight everywhere, he's no Craig Wright, not even close. Well, enough of it, for me he's/she's alive.

Does it matter in the end?
He/she could be the person next door in your house. The person could be just living his normal life that you wouldn't see that he knows something about Bitcoin.
If he is alive, I am sure that he is visiting this forum frequently as a guest.
I don't think that even me as an individual would just abandon what I've become part of and I'll always come back whether it'd be for nostalgic purposes or any other purposes.

I think he is dead. He was assassinated shortly after he invented the legendary Bitcoin. If not why is his almost one million holding still not depleted years after Bitcoin became popular? No one can hodl that long once their token/coin became highly priced. We all know what happened to Litecoin at its peak and how the creator cashed out.

Mine would happen to be Him laughing in a corner reading our posts a nd thinking we could do better than discussing anything about him since he knows there is no way we could find him 😂

Jokes apart this man doesn't want to be discovered let's lead with that .

He might be dead or deceased but the theory of yours that he has been assassinated after he created the bitcoin is way too off than usual thoughts of others due to his inactivity. People are pretty doubtful of the bitcoin at the very beginning so that could be the very reason why your theory is having a sort of imaginary stuffs. Secondly, the bitcoin wasn't recognized not until it reached its ATH or even when it is climbing up the ladder.

He might died after shortly when he created it, maybe the sole purpose of bitcoin is a remembrance of his life giving us power to have and use it.

I don’t like saying he’s dead, maybe because I don’t want him dead lol. The idea that he is dead is not something that I like to hear, I just imagine that he’s someone that doesn’t care about being in public eyes; being famous and all that, he just prefers to stay in the secret. Maybe he’s one of the few that are very different from the rest of us, the type that doesn’t even like flexing the things he has and showing.

So let’s just let him be, if he prefers to stay on the low, then we should allow him and stop trying to dig him up. He made it clear that he has decided to move on and hand everything over to someone else and that’s exactly what he did. If he wanted to come back, I believe he would have done so by now.

I think Satoshi died in 2013 and was a friend of Craig Wright. And Wright, who knows some fragmentary information about the creation of Bitcoin, is trying to manipulate it, but it turns out he’s getting worse and worse. I would be glad to make a mistake if Satoshi is alive and well.

He might be dead that's why there is no one who can find or at least reveal his own identity to the public.

Or maybe he just really want to avoid the public for his own personal reasons. He might be watching over to bitcoin users that continuously growing, but I have this thinking of where in the world he is watching over us, that is something that I want to know but I know it is impossible.

Well nobody can say whether satoshi is alive or dead. Its perhaps biggest mystery of 21st century still unsolved. But one thing we have to admit is that bitcoin is a platform created by human for humanity. It seems very rear that satoshi is just a single guy who created this all, he must have fellows also and they must be around us for sure.

I think he is dead after a few years bitcoin was launched. The reason is that when bitcoin has entered the era as an asset that has a high sale value, there is no movement in bitcoin that is claimed as its own in the wallet. Only my assumption.

If he is a man, then I dont consider him a normal man. But I must say he is a genius and has extraordinary talent.  :D
Handsome? probably not. He must have 4 layers of glasses when in front of the monitor. :D

We can't actually tell but there is a possibility that Satoshi is still alive and waiting for the right time to reveal his or their real identity. He or their group is still hiding without any trace, but if he or they doesn't want to actually reveal their identity, we can just let them enjoy their precious life.

We can't really know, I'll stick with what I think his current state right now, he is dead, coz if he really ain't then he should have sold his bitcoin way back 2017. There is a high chance that Hal is Satoshi since he was the first ever to receive a bitcoin after it was created, and I can't contain to myself that if you are the creator of one thing then you should test it on your own, so there's Hal. And I don't think Satoshi would be too clever if he does not know this guy. Perhaps, we don't need that much information for the creator of bitcoin.

There's a high possibility of the said Satoshi to be with us here on the forum and not otherwise. Many thought of Satoshi to be dead after the launched of the project Bitcoin, although these individuals still exist among us and not just drawing a conclusion that they're not with us. So, my theory still stand that, these group still live with us even right in this forum, they always read comments about this issue of Satoshi alive or dead.

Now, learn something from me too.
My saying - "Good Souls Never Die!"
I would never believe that Satoshi has left us all in vain. One who loves anonymity should never reveal and keep up the good work being done by his end without shouting out for trying to take credits for the success of their project and I bet Satoshi is calm enough to stay away from all this drama and remain silent forever while doing his job that he started with the invention of BTC.

It’s that time of the year where someone has to raise this question, and after all the debates that will take place no one will know for sure what happened to him and neither will we agree on one common answer. Furthermore i don’t have much of a theory because each time I read they have found him, it only leads to disappointment as was the case when I believed that Dorian Nakamoto was satoshi but it turned out to be a false positive.

Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/many-facts-dorian-nakamoto-satoshi/

 
DED as in, ded.

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I am starting to have a feeling that Satoshi is no longer alive. His stash is worth a few billion USD now. If he was alive, then he could have claimed it. Even if he has lost his private key, there are multiple alternate options available for him to prove that he is the creator of Bitcoin. It has been 11 years since he first mined Bitcoin. For almost 10 years now, we haven't heard anything from him. I guess he is no longer alive.. but that said, I don't think that either Craig Wright, or Dave Kleiman has anything to do with Satoshi.

Its not a person but a collective of people who all worked on the project. They used Satoshi Nakamoto as a pseudonym due to the perceived threat of govt retaliation


or its just your neighbor  ;)

Who said that to you? Where is your proof?
There is a saying in my culture: There is no secret that two people know. If Satoshi were pseudonym used for a community, as you said, definitely one or a few people would have disclosed this secret so far. However, I cannot tell you exactly about Satoshi's identity. Perhaps as you really say, a community can be a group.

The legendary creator of the bitcoin today has a useful life because his creation becomes one of the most successful into the world of technology and innovation and this is quite good because there is a legacy he leaves before does not take too much responsibility to his creation but now it is a massive problem because the identity still does not concrete and also he has the most profitable coin because he has a lot of bitcoin hold and this is a good thing too to manipulate the market proce even he does not control the whole bitcoin.w

Everyone?

Stop joking man.

I don't want to think that he's already dead. Just like the opinion of others, he left bitcoin and probably moving on to another project with the same vision.

Satoshi can be alive or dead, no one knows the reason to this question but what matters the most is the value that he gave us in life. He created a thing that separates us from the rest of the world as they are currently bound under the system and bitcoin is the freedom which they are looking for.

I believe that he is enjoying his life and watching the world grow his brain child and hoping for a better future.

Satoshi, whoever or whatever is had a clear intent to disappear even when it all started. Satoshi placed every of it's move very carefully remaining anonymous and clearing any track it would lead to him/her/it. There could be a few old bitcoin developers that may have some faint idea about what satoshi is or where is it from but most of them clearly don't know about satoshi.

rofl. Craig? really? isn't he the one who is taking shit with bitcoin? Although he is Computer Scientist never I imagine that he is going to be the creator of it. Most of people here disregarded his claims coz no one is really believing to him, but why? simply because if he does then he should be promoting it and not spreading negativity about it. Basic logic will analyze.
Yeah me too, I want to think that he is alive and is smiling because of what he created but man he is not having a glimpse on the media even a anonymous message for us all. I think what Satoshi's message is the bitcoin itself.

The theory that he died is a popular one because it is a way to explain his sudden disappearance, there are also those that believe that satoshi was not a single person and in fact was composed of a team of experts since they cannot imagine how a person could create something like bitcoin on their own unless he was a genius, however I personally believe that he is alive and well and that satoshi was not composed of a team of people and was a single individual, otherwise it would have been really difficult for the identity of all of those people to still remain hidden 10 years after the creation of bitcoin with that many people.

  So what do you guys think of what Gavin Adresen is saying here  ??!   ???
  https://youtu.be/2qLI3VIHuKU 

I think satoshi is still alive, maybe he was hiding himself for his safety, he might be worry for his family that is why he was hiding. Or maybe he dont wanted to be celebrity and he maybe wanted to live a life in a normal way of living this is only my opinion because i dont really know where satoshi is.

It doesn't really matter, there's nothing good that could happen to him if he's alive. Who except for the biggest of extroverts would enjoy the attention Satoshi would undoubtedly be showered with? If he cared about being anonymous back then, he must not care less about it now.

As to why he never touched the dormant coins (assuming they were actually mined by him and he still retains access to the relevant private keys), it might be that he's well-off enough not to care too much about their value. He had the time and perseverance to work on Bitcoin before and during the financial crisis, not the case for many people in much of the world back then.

No one really knows on where satoshi is, neither he's still alive or dead.Its just normal to think that he would definitely hide himself in the public yet we know on how his creation been a threat specially into the government.

We cant really remove on our mind the possibility of or risking his life and his loved one if he do tend to go out in public and it wont be a surprise if he do just roaming around anonymously even into this forum which he had created. No one knows.

Important thing here is that we are thankful that he do create up this tech which do benefit the many not only on actual usage but also on money making oportunity.

Satoshi theory? I don't really care at all if he/she's still alive or dead.

To be honest, I am proud of him because I really like his idea, which is the BTC, and it makes me admire him for inventing something that will change the lives of others. And I don't know if he's dead, people are still using his own invention, and with that, the advancement of our technologies will continue and won't meet an end.

What's my reason? I respect his decision for being anonymous from the start so obviously he wants to hide his identity or other personal things to the public, therefore, we shouldn't be bothered at all about him.

Almost 10 years? Even at the 1st anniversary of bitcoin, there's a possibility that he might die. No one's immortal here.  

I personally think he died.

Realistically, nobody has the willpower to not dump their 1 million bitcoins when BTC reaches $20,000 each.

He would have had a net worth of $20 billion.

I don't care if you want to reshape the world or whatnot, $20 billion buys out the morals of almost anybody. He must be dead.

He wouldn't be able to cash out more than a fraction of his purported stash without crashing the markets, and I can't imagine the markets reacting positively if it was clear the creator of Bitcoin himself wants to sell as much as possible at ATH. If he's alive and still has the private keys he's probably financially comfortable enough not to care about having more money.

Same thinking, those who are following the tile of satoshi nakamoto have their own personal interests on bitcoin, and they knew they'd earn a lot from it. At some point, it's going to lend political influence because SN did something that was being used by a lot of people. On the other hand, bitcoin can become vulnerable to media threats and other leaders because the privacy of the mastermind no longer exists. If the disclosures have arisen, it would be a non-stop investigation and bitcoin's collapse, so the government would prosper because they are opposed to it becoming decentralized.

Hello everybody. Cool question. A lot of opinions on this topic on the Internet roams. Personally, I think that nevertheless this is a real person and an absolutely living person. The genius who invented the great thing, many of us still do not fully understand what this person created. I believe that if some organization would invent Bitcoin, it would have long been public knowledge. Because, what two people know, everyone knows. It is easier for a loner to hide from the eyes of all governments and regulatory bodies. Therefore, I am inclined to the fact that Satoshi Nakamoto lives on some secluded island and enjoys life.

what is clear is that this innovation stems from anxiety on an outdated system. Intelligent people will certainly think about what can change this, until the idea that now comes in the form of bitcoin, which we can enjoy all the good opportunities. Well, no one really knows whether Satoshi is an individual or a group, after all, it will not harm us even if we don't know it. Ignore insignificant thoughts, let's focus on the opportunities that already exist as best we can.

It's hard for me to think about that. Every side can be possible, but I can't say that it's 50:50. I can't even give proofs to support my theory do basically this is just my wild guess. But for me, Satoshi is still alive (unless he got infected by the virus). Probably having the best of his life. Enjoying his freedom and anonymity. Or perhaps, he's making another innovation? I don't know. We don't know.

I don't really want to exert too much effort on thinking about him because no matter how much I would think, I'll still end up knowing nothing. What matters is that he left something that will definitely remember his existence even if it's just a pseudonym?

Satoshi is really a genius , maybe it is just a code name "Satoshi" and he made bitcoin for those who want to become successful in life just like him. I'm sure that he is still alive and he chose to be anonymous so that the authority will not find him and he want a peaceful and lowkey life. There are people who prefer to be silent and still making a big impact when his influence and invention is really making people grow and become wise in life. Bitcoin really teach us a lot of lessons that is also applicable in our life, just like the budget management, proper timing, patience and etc., bitcoin can really change our perspective in life in a good thing and it is up to you if you will really use bitcoin in a good ways just like Satoshi is expecting you to do.

There are a lot of people saying that Satoshi Nakamoto is already died and leave his bitcoin for over the place in the internet and also there are a lot or rumors too that Satoshi Nakamoto is alive and he are just hidden into the world of internet and waiting to the right time to show again but on my side I think he are still alive and manage and control the market price for over the time because a creator is always a creator even you already got a final project and development on your creation still you need to control and manage this too because it takes a lot of updates and maintenance on the process to make sure it is stable and does not have many errors and bugs.


There is a chance Satoshi Nakamoto is a group too because a developer and a genius and computer programming cannot handle this kind of huge number of programming systems and it is hard to handle this kind of many users and transactions happens with the use of their creation.

According to the theory that I believe satoshi nakamoto is not one person, but a group consisting of several people. Because projects as large as
bitcoin cannot possibly be handled by one person alone. Most likely satoshi nakamoto is still alive, then the reason satoshi nakamoto chose to hide
due to security reasons. Because the government and banks do not like the presence of bitcoin, so if Satoshi Nakamoto appears to feel his safety
threatened. Actually the identity of satoshi nakamoto is not important to me, the most important thing is that his creation of bitcoin can benefit
people who are have it.

Well we cannot really say that since we don't have any of things or data to base on but I also think of that, Satoshi Nakamoto is a group rather than just a person because the creation of bitcoin needs to be sophisticated. Perhaps, he did it all alone and also took all his life time to get the bitcoin done and dies after he releases it. Maybe we are just seeing bitcoin cannot be created by just one person because it is huge now that we are just underestimating that man can do.

We can also conclude that Satoshi is watching us from now and then but he's not showing up because he is afraid and considering his family's safety too.

Personally, the theory I have about Satoshi and Bitcoin is that Satoshi is not one person. I believe that Satoshi is the name of the team that developed Bitcoin and the blockchain technology. Considering the nature of the entire bitcoin and its blockchain technology, it requires a group of people to share ideas in order to create that with less bugs.  Personally I believe that the name Satoshi is a name of a team rather than one individual.

My hypothesis proposes that he is as yet alive and has chosen to leave the gathering just a single time, he has a method for living a lifetime with Bitcoin and I think you don't have anything to request. Satoshi is a gathering of people who split up quite a while in the past. :) :) :)

No matter where he is now, we are still thankful about his idea of this cryptocurrency 11 years ago. Maybe he is just relaxing now, if he really exist and he want to become anonymous that will make a big impact in our community and economy. It is that amazing that he manage to stay unidentified until forever so that people will be curious and let people think of his existence. A genius mindset with a futuristic point of view is really what the next generation needs not only the present, having such a great a plan and making a cryptocurrency that will benefit all of us who believe in his idea. Sometimes you just need to take a risk in order for you to know the true value or advantage of something in your life.

I made some research about this some couple of years ago and all I can deduce from it is that Satoshi Nakatomo is still alive,  dude is enjoying his anonymous life,  I'm sure if Satoshi disclose his identity bitcoin might have not be where it is right now, he made the right decision by keeping everyone guessing about who he is and his whereabout.

Since i came here in the Forum this is the most interesting thing that i wanted to learn because it is very intriguing about what is the situation of our Mentor.
But as time Passes by?i started to Believe that either he is Alive or not?it is His decision and we cannot change that.
Satoshi can be Alive but hiding as what he did 10 years ago,or if he is dead?then let us Pray for His soul for peace.
What i am very thankful because he gave me a chance to learn this Currency and changed my life.

This question used to bother me in the past, but I just decided to get over it. Satoshi Nakamoto is/was a human being like me, and whatever he chose to do with his life is his own business, and not mine. So, I stopped bothering myself much. The Bitcoin and cryptocurrency community has grown too big now and a lot of people have joined hands together to keep this community going, so there is really no need for him now.

I do not feel comfortable with saying he’s dead lol, so I prefer to say to say that he chose to stay private. But imagine that I was the one that got the $19 billion in his wallet, lol, I am sure going to withdraw all that money. Whoever he is, he’s really good for not doing such, cause taking out a money as huge as that will affect the community.

I think Satoshi is already deceased because it has been 11 years since it has been created my guess is Satoshi was already old when it was created so for me there is a high chance that Satoshi is already dead.
There are so many ways for Satoshi to be deceased from the past 11 years we have so many natural disaster events from all over the world and of course the fact that Satoshi could also be dead due to sickness who knows if Satoshi just recently died due to corona virus,
Of course we couldn't tell if Satoshi was one of the victim of this virus.

I believe that Satoshi is some people who work in the bitcoin project, and they share the knowledge to create blockchain technology. We don't know who is behind the blockchain technology project, but they want to give something that will make people comfortable. Maybe some of them already died a long time ago, but I am sure that there are many people behind that project still working hard and make sure the project still running for a long time. Many of them still alive until now.

At the end of the day, We are all Satoshi (Except CW LOL).

I have my theories about who it is (or they are), but it's better left unknown.

By the line he said you can see hes a no nonsense guy. If you don't listen or believe to him, that means you are not part it and can go somewhere else.
Now if he doesn't want anything to do with the current market today, it could mean he's into more important things in his life if he is alive. There is no way to verify it but definitely he had done more than enough.

Satoshi right know is very well and healthy i think he know bitcoin reach new ATH as well maybe he have wallet that all people don't know about it and do it for living

My theory was that Satoshi was a group of activists who understood that creating a new form of currency and stamping their names on it would lead to controversy (See: XRP) and would put Bitcoin's growth in jeopardy. Despite knowing that Satoshi has a large amount of Bitcoin that has since been unmoved, I speculate that originally the funds were meant as a savings account if Bitcoin were to ever grow. However, once Bitcoin started to pick up momentum, Satoshi realized how many eyes were on the account and thus kept the Bitcoins unmoved to avoid drawing attention. I imagine the Satoshi team is still out there. No longer as developers for Bitcoin but as silent eyes watching the world figure out how to utilize this invention.

Or I'm totally wrong. Same chance.  ;)