I am now tempted to tell you all who is Satoshi ?

I am James A Donald. I was with Satoshi Nakamoto when he first published the E-Cash Paper in the online forum and mailing list.

I am a Cryptographer, Cipherpunk and Computer Engineer. I developed an interest in e-cash in the early nineties.  I am a professional expert in financial cryptography. When I encountered Satoshi Nakamoto  online I thought he was a young Japanese man of 24 to 30. Later I discovered that he knows much more about financial cryptography and computer science than myself. So I got involved in discussing many things. Never wanted to tell me anything about his real identity.  We exchanged all the information online by forum post and P2P foundation, also in the mailing list.

One day by chance I spotted his IP address. He was careless at the beginning. I used to work for an agents in those days. This agent were interested to find out his real identity.  He found his connection to the Cipherpunk. He just made only one post in the Cipherpunk forum.

First, I thought he was from Russia but later I was convinced that He was a young Japanese man but I was wrong.  Thereafter Hal Finney jumped on in our discussion. Hal and I were in the forum for many years, I mean in the mailing list.

He wrote me more than 270 emails over the two years.  I collected all his posts as I was assigned to do that by my agent. Satoshi called himself Cyberpunk instead of Cipherpunk. He was not happy with the traditional financial system, mainly the banking services.  On one occasion he mentioned that he wanted to borrow just £20 thousand Pound Sterling to set up a business but the bank didn't give him the loan. On another occasion he told me that he was sending about £50 Pound to one of his relatives and the bank charged £19 pound fees from him. I was convinced he was from a commonwealth country and migrated to the UK or was a student in the UK.

I was right in my assumption. I discovered his IP and I was sure about his identity. When I told him about my finding, he did not reply to me for two weeks. I thought was angry with me and got offline but that was not correct. I was wrong. He was on a holiday in his native land. He was from the Asian Continent. But not from Japan. On another occasion he told me that He has a close connection to Hokkaido Island.

Then I was confused. Later Satroshi told me a story. A story of World War II. Hisd grandfather was a strategist who fought in World War II. He never told which side his grandfather fought and where he was in the war ?  Satoshi told me that he was a student of political economics and he was involved in the creation of a single currency called Euro which was launched in 1999.  I have no clues in what capacity he was involved in the creation of the Euro ?  But later I discovered that Euro was created by him as a EuroBond first in the year 1994. Later it was accepted in the Madrid EEC convention and adopted as the EU Single currency in 1995 and it took 4 years to launch in 1999. Satoshi Nakamoto is a British and a commonwealth citizen.
It means he is not English but has a close link to the British commonwealth. On one occasion he asked me if I was interested to know more about the commonwealth ?  I  was not interested.

Yes, ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ is not his real name but it is his pseudonym. He never told me his real name but  I managed to find his identity as I was working for an agent, who was paying me for information. I was wrong for disclosing his identity to an agent. I regret the mistakes I made. I am really sorry for my own mistakes and I told Satoshi about it in November 2010. Then Satoshi asked me to contact him no more. Later he gave the project to Gavin Bell (Andresen) and others who were more trusted by him.  He moved and asked me to retire from active discussion online. Thereafter we discuss all things privately. Satoshi is still surrounded and sometimes visits the forum and mailing list.

Satoshi will come back again but may not be in the forum but some whereelse online.