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A couple of years ago I posted my theory of who Satoishi was. God, I hope I am right if this hacker outs him. Then I can lord it over you all unmercilessly. You will never heard the end of it, how I was right and you ignored me. Vindication at last.

What's your theory?

Satoshi is provably god. He wanted us to make our own monetary system, but we failed so he developed bitcoin for us. Thanks god!

Do u mean this post from 2011 that claims Ben Bernanke to be Satoshi ?

LOL that's hilarious, no that was a later post.

My identification post was published on this forum on October 24, 2011. It's Robert Hettinga.

why bother trying to figure out who is satoshi?

choose from the options available...
http://www.reddit.com/r/satoshistories

Are you kidding? Why try to figure it out? Only because it is THE BIGGEST IDENTITY MYSTERY OF THE 21st CENTURY, thats why! Duh! What are you dumb?

Satoishi is like the modern Jack the Ripper.

Did you know that Paul Krugman codes ?














think about it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hettinga

seems reasonable that he was all up in it.

Satoshi is a time traveller ... duh

what date in the future was he from?

Like... What if, threw tha oneders of modarn science, they our the same
person!!1!

I still think the theory about him being an Alien is best, it makes sense because we haven't seen this kind of technology before and how no government agencies or journalists have been able to properly identify him :P

his English is extremely fluent

if i had to put BTCs on it, i would say it's Shinichi Muchizuki.

Satoshi banged whores and slit their throats?   Damn.  Learn something new every day.

PS:  JTR was a polish immigrant, apparently.  Named somethingoranother.  Saw the article the other day.  Google it if you're interested.

-B-

Satoshi is an AI from the future.

This is ridiculous. It is also why he likely wanted to stay anon as he more likely then not does not want people worshiping him like this.

He had a very good idea in creating bitcoin, however he was not alone in execution in the making it as successful as it is today. 

Its not Obama?

Ron Paul.

Actually, you are a sentient hologram from Satoshi's past.

Ehhh, I don't really care if you had it right or wrong, I don't know who you are or who you claimed it would be, and I don't care who Satoshi is, I'm just happy he granted us the magic of bitcoin.

i am not Dorian.

-john f. nash,jr.

can u give us hints why?

KimDotCom ...  If I am correct will somebody give me big prize?

I have to admit I am loving viewing this thread and seeing everyones theories and ideas. I personally do not feel we will ever find out Satoshi's identity and even if someone did out it, could we even prove that it really is who he is unless he came forward and admitted to it being him?

You'll never find Satoshi, he went back to his home planet.  He is spending his BTCs, you just can't see it because the blockchains can't synch over intergalactic distances yet. 

Whoever it actually turns out to be, it's going to be an anticlimax.  Nothing can live up to the hype now.

satoshi findings wont do anyting to price


or shouldnt :)

I agree. People who say that satashi is god or some kind of profit are, IMO crazy and give bitcoin a bad name.

The alien theory i like it, I can understand that if you had millions of dollar you want to be private because there will be lot of people trying to steal your wealth but you would not be that afraid that you won't even give a comment on internet.   ::)

I told you who he was.When do I get my prize?

starts a thread about his theory who satoshi is.
don't even tell his theory (people should ask curious)
-> someone needs attention

KDC would probably not remain silent about creating BTC. He's proudly created other revolutionary software out in the open.

Also, he wouldn't have used MSVC to create it.

My vote is for Elon Musk, but really I couldn't give 2 flying fucks.

This whole thread is AWESOME! I really needed this good laugh! Thanks, guys.

I guess that I have to read all the Satoshi identification stories, it looks like fun!

Together with Szabo and Chaum as suggested in this Dec 2013 post? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=358790.0

A proper "I told ya so" post deserves a link to the original...it'll make you look much cooler when others stumble upon this thread!

Satoshi died for our FIAT sins.

I have a new identity proposal, although its not as cool as the idea Satoshi is a time traveling alien AI.  A group of hackers compromise some of Satoshi's old accounts then immediately go after Mazacoin's old website having acquired old account info belonging to Anonymous Pirate.  Therefore, I postulate that Anonymous Pirate and Satoshi are the same person.  https://mazacoin.org/mazacoin-org-returns-after-compromise/

I promise you it is Kim.He told me.Where is my prize?

Since a lot of readers seem either unwilling or unable to use the search function I will cross link the relevant posts.

My original post from October 24, 2011, 11:27:48 PM fingering Robert Hettinga as Satoishi based on forum posts:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49751.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49751.0)

A followup post in 2013 dealing with the Szabo issue:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=358790.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=358790.0)

In 2013, an analysis of the Bitcoin paper suggested it was written by Nick Szabo. I too had noticed that the forum posts and bitcoin paper seem to have been written by different people, but possibly been a collaboration. Since Nick Szabo and Robert Hettinga knew each other very well and were good friends, this introduces the possibility that Bitcoin was a collaboration between the two, with David Chaum doing the coding.

However, my recent thinking is that Szabo cannot have written the paper, despite the Slashdot analysis. The reason for this is that the paper uses Latex, but in a highly non-standard way that appears converted from MS Word, whereas the few times Szabo has published a paper, it uses standard Latex formatting. Also, Szabo's papers feature high-quality, academically informed references. The references in the 2008 Bitcoin paper are the work of an amateur. The overall layout and style of the graphics and objects differ from Szabo's style and tendencies. Therefore, I think my original conclusion still stands: Hettinga wrote both the forum posts and the paper.

Is there any reason why you call him “Satoishi” instead of “Satoshi”?

Sorry, about that. Satoishi is the normal Japanese spelling of the name (Anglicized), so mentally I always spell it this way.

The mispelling of the name, by the way, is evidence that Satoshi is not actually Japanese, but is a Westerner masquerading as a Japanese (Mark Karpeles anyone?).

Okay I give up here.Maybe Kim will come on and tell you himself.When he reveals himself you can give me my prize then and I tell you about where the REAL aliens are.

I don't know Japanese, but there's something I wonder...

Searching Google for “satoshi -nakamoto -bitcoin” (so, other people named Satoshi) gives 19 million results, while “satoishi -nakamoto -bitcoin” gives 417 thousand.

Searching on Wikipedia, there's a list of people named Satoshi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi), but the Satoishi page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Satoishi&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go) is non-existent.

So, if “Satoishi” is the accepted anglicized version, why is it much less frequent?

Because that is the pronunciation but Satoshi is the preferred spelling?

I like your avatar.It is very wise statement.