Was Hal Finney the real Satoshi?

[iamaruf]

Last few days i saw many posts that who is satoshi,why he is hiding himself etc. Actually  satoshi know better. If you google you will find thousands of controversy.
Hal Finney not real satoshi,he was the first bitcoin recipient.
Wikipedia link:   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)

[Darooghe]

Hal has always been my first candidate for who Satoshi is. there are a lot of details supporting this theory. for example, he's a cypherpunk and had contact on Crypto circles before Bitcoin. Hal had a neighbor called Dorian Nakamoto, but had Satoshi as first name. I think he "stoled" this name as alias. further Satoshi disappeared a little before Hal entered the last phase of it's degenerative illness and the first transaction from Satoshi went to Hal. I think Hal created the masking identity to decrypt himself and introduce Bitcoin from the safety of relative anonymity, simultaneously supporting Bitcoin as himself.

[okae]

Hal has always been my first candidate for who Satoshi is. there are a lot of details supporting this theory. for example, he's a cypherpunk and had contact on Crypto circles before Bitcoin. Hal had a neighbor called Dorian Nakamoto, but had Satoshi as first name. I think he "stoled" this name as alias. further Satoshi disappeared a little before Hal entered the last phase of it's degenerative illness and the first transaction from Satoshi went to Hal. I think Hal created the masking identity to decrypt himself and introduce Bitcoin from the safety of relative anonymity, simultaneously supporting Bitcoin as himself.

+1

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist, no, im not saying Hal is/was the devil, im saying that he MAYBE was so smart to let us beleive that he is/was not satoshi.... people should never dismiss this theory

[alani123]

Curious to see different theories on Hal Finney. I believe he may have sent the first Bitcoin transaction to himself. How may of you guys own multiple BTC addresses and do this every day? I know I do.

If you own a real bitcoin wallet, you transact to yourself by default via any change your transactions have.

But on the question in the OP, I think it's a bit of an absurd claim that has been discussed quite a bit already. in my view, Hal (R.I.P.) lived a busy, creative and productive life before encountering BTC, he was fascinated by this encounter evidently. But really, to say that he was Satoshi, doesn't fit the picture well.

[samuraijin]

Curious to see different theories on Hal Finney. I believe he may have sent the first Bitcoin transaction to himself. How may of you guys own multiple BTC addresses and do this every day? I know I do.

I'm not sure Hal finney thing is Satoshi, but why lately there are so many threads to reveal who satoshi is? even great people on the internet may not be able to find it, if you don't believe it, please start to find out I'm sure your time will be wasted

Becuase this is the most easy and convenient topic for newbie members that want to start a thread. They don't mind if the topic was discussed several times in the past. Just click report to the moderator button if you feel that this topic is redundant.

yes it is true this topic does look easy to be answered as a posting material for users of this forum and I am also easy to report this to the moderator, but I do not want to interfere with the rights of others in this forum, so letting this be knowledge also for new users

[Kambal2000]

Hal has always been my first candidate for who Satoshi is. there are a lot of details supporting this theory. for example, he's a cypherpunk and had contact on Crypto circles before Bitcoin. Hal had a neighbor called Dorian Nakamoto, but had Satoshi as first name. I think he "stoled" this name as alias. further Satoshi disappeared a little before Hal entered the last phase of it's degenerative illness and the first transaction from Satoshi went to Hal. I think Hal created the masking identity to decrypt himself and introduce Bitcoin from the safety of relative anonymity, simultaneously supporting Bitcoin as himself.

With those I have red too, I think he's the real Satoshi too, it's just so sad that he's now dead, but still we are lucky that he managed to do Bitcoin that will serve as his one of his greatest piece, hope one day he will recognize for this for what he did, well, there's still no assurance for now, but I am one of those who believes that he's the real one.

[Twentyonepaylots]

Read this: The Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.

/enuff said.

I habe doubts on my mind after reading this 1)I haven't heard of any information that there is a real Satoshi Nakamoto that lived just next street from Hal. (Investigators could've know it by searching within its vicinity) 2) Wei Dai was the second person contacted by Satoshi for its b-money (Maybe they made this all up too) 3) If Hal was really a genius, he could've not sent to himself the first bitcoin as it will only made him much suspectful.

Even after all this speculation, still Satoshi does not want to be known cause if he wanted to, he had a choice in the very beginning.

[Hamphser]

Last few days i saw many posts that who is satoshi,why he is hiding himself etc. Actually  satoshi know better. If you google you will find thousands of controversy.
Hal Finney not real satoshi,he was the first bitcoin recipient.
Wikipedia link:   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)

Can't say yes, can't say no but the reports and thread made to find the real Satoshi Nakamoto were everywhere here. We can only suspect who's the real satoshi but cannot confirm his/their real identity. Everyone who is involved of creating and helping satoshi to make the bitcoin is a suspect as the real Satoshi Nakamoto.