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Who is Satoshi

(Almost) nobody knows who is the creator of bitcoin, but whoever created it is making lots of money for sure.

i'd say none of the above ;-)
(why is this poll option missing?)

No one from the voting options. Only Satoshi knows who or what he is. We can only use our imagination and speculate on who might be him or her. Just forget about it.

For what reason shoul he/she never have mentioned his name somewhere? WHy staying anonymous?

because for a DECENTRALIZED currency a leader is just cancer.
he may be afraid of some three-letter-agencies too

I'd say none of the possibilities above. You should list this option. By doing so, you would see tha many people think like me.

None of the above. Keyser Söze

At this point, what possible reason would Satoshi feel the need to reveal his identity? Maybe 100 years from now one of his descendants will sign something from his wallet(s).

Marlyn Monroe.

I think satoshi is still with us but it's not possible to guess who he is and how he keep supporting bitcoin and if u ask me, the chance he can be a featured devoloper on core or something else. I don't believe that he keeps his role on foreground

I can't vote for a group of these...
maybe Satoshi is a group of people?

It's probably neither of them. Personally I don't really care nor do I think it'd be a good idea for his identity to be known. Likely only really bad things can come of it as he will be scrutinized and attacked by the media. If he wants to be known at some point he shall surely reveal himself but if he doesn't then I hope he remains anon and isn't exposed against his will.

i'm also inclined to believe that he is the head of a group of coders, he is the designer, the other coded the thing, i remember he admitted that he didn't do all the work himself

I agree, that's the only option. OP can you add Marlyn Monroe to the list?

Among the options given, I think that the one that makes more sense is he being Gavin Andersen.

It looks like Gavin knows who satoshi is at least, and the fact that many are interestind in knowing who satoshi is, and haven't managed to get that info from gavin... has some weight in the theory that he may be him.

But do not really know.

I don't feel satoshi is Gavin after the XT crap, we will never know if it was Hal so that leads me to vote fo Nick. But I agree with most here, I see it being someone(s) else.

This, it's obvious Gavin is not satoshi. Nick is still my favorite guy to be satoshi, guy is just a genius, and didn't care about cameras until recently.
Even if Gavin WAS satoshi, he would be wrong about his own creation after the BIP101 nonsense.

Op you probably should add some positions to the poll, such as: 'some unknown guy' or 'we will never know' etc.
This poll is meaningless speculation anyway, all I know is that Dr. Wright is DEFINITELY not Satoshi, he is fame hungry individual, backed by nothing but fake evidence.

I'd vote for John Doe.

Seriously, I believe none of the options given is Satoshi Nakamoto.

Maybe all of the options, satoshi nakamoto is group of cryptography expert and economic expert.

Agree, Gavin would be contradicting much of what Satoshi wanted for Bitcoin with BIP101 and its implementation. Seems the least likely of any cadidate to me. Especial when Satoshi went dark after Gavin was visited by the government and he revealed that to Satoshi.

The real satoshi is in this video,  ;D, just kidding  ;D

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

None of the above is Satoshi. I believe it's a group of developers who created bitcoin

Not just one person invented bitcoin. That's what I believe.

We all know that the real satoshi is Mr.Dorian Nakamoto
http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzAzLzA3L2FjL0FQNDA3Mjg2NjcwLjA1OTk4LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/e0cffa85/e26/AP407286670412.jpg

Just kidding, Satoshi is a group of people obviously
Bitcoin is so well made that it's impossible to be made by just a single person

Satoshi is Neal King, Vladimir Oks­man, and Charles Bry without a doubt.

A collection of individuals.

My theory has always been that the NSA created bitcoin for the purpose of being able to transfer assets to operatives without government oversight.

They had to do it anonymously and then turn control over to the user base because they do not have the constitutional power to mint a currency.

However I am a little less confident about that now than I was a year ago.

The Australian may be Satoshi.

But it really doesn't matter. The crypto concepts are good, that's what I care about.

Up to know I have no idea if satoshi is an individual or a group of people,some two years ago an old was perceived as satoshi and recently an australian was also perceived as satoshi but no conclusion has been made,I guess it's up to the real satoshi to come out and announce that he is the real one

Might be somebody in this photo:
https://i.imgur.com/v27sSra.jpg

why are you don't add more option on that poll,i think none of people on above is real satoshi,and i just think that satoshi is Asian guy,why you dont put asian guy on poll?

his name is Satoshi Nakamoto, he lives in a basement in shinjuku, tokyo.

NOTA = None of the above


This option is missing but seriously I would love if he would somehow anonymously send us hints as to which option among the following he prefers.

Bitcoin core/others

So we can remove the rest.

satoshi-kun is but one person. At max, a few people. Sure, he invented bitcoin, but that doesn't necessarily mean he knows what's the best way to go moving forward. To see how silly that idea is, just think, is the person who invented soccer the best soccer player in the world? Or even the best soccer coach/manager?

Sure his input is probably more valuable than your average joe, but even he can't possibly understand and predict how best to balance everything.

picture taken before the discussions of the blocksize :) thats why it looks so harmonic

Satoshi is none of them. i agree with teddy, i think satoshi is group of people that make bitcoin into now and they make their identity into anonymous. well we still don't know.