Satoshi

[gentlemand]

I've come to a conclusion that Satoshi is not a human, but some kind of internet spirit that was formed by everyone's thought and desires.

I reached the answer after seeing so many people believes that they are Satoshi.

I think that's the most valid theory so far. I often wonder what happens to all those keystrokes that never go anywhere. Perhaps a collective unconscious consisting of millions of minds coded and created Bitcoin in the course of a fraction of a second.

[Cryddit]

I am Satoshi.

I am also Spartacus.

Come on guys,say it with me.

Say it every time some idiot asks.

[p.nusia]

I think that he will never show up) and it is quite understandable

[tokeweed]

What if he really was Hal Finney?

[Whitehouse]

are we going to see you again ? maybe other project ? 

He's probably still around under a different nickname. He posted once on his p2pfoundation profile to say that he wasn't Dorian Nakamoto. He is around, he just doesn't like the attention.

I'm not sure that was him and his account there was compromised. One of his email addresses was also hacked around the same time so they likely got in that way.

What if he really was Hal Finney?

What if he is someone else who is now also dead? I don't think he was Finney and satoshi stopped posting long before Hal ever did.

I've come to a conclusion that Satoshi is not a human, but some kind of internet spirit that was formed by everyone's thought and desires.

I reached the answer after seeing so many people believes that they are Satoshi.

Those people are obviously just trolls or idiots  .

[Joe_Bauers]

Sure's heck can't rule it out.  People get so stuck on the "dumb hillbilly" stereotypes that they forget there are also smart hillbillies.  And you cannot run a farm these days without a full-time Internet connection so....

Seriously. I worked on a project for a few months in the south US and I admit I went in with an expectation that everyone was going to be a stereotypical assbackwards hillbilly moron.

Most people were the exact opposite, very friendly and lots of brilliant technical minds.
Of course, some of them were exactly the type that would do the world a favour by jumping into a volcano, but you will find that everywhere.

[YarkoL]

My favorite theory is that he's a middle-aged geek
living in his mother's flat somewhere in Japan, spends all day in front of computer
and hardly ever comes out of his room. So some years ago he became
interested in cryptography and read a number of books about it.
He whipped out his Visual Studio and coded Bitcoin just for the
heck of it. Later on he grew bored of the whole affair and moved on
to other things, like sudoku puzzles or breeding goldfish.

[Btcvilla]

He is with us, just not as Satoshi. https://youtu.be/OR4N5OhcY9s?t=2m16s

[tokeweed]

This is a list of some of the most noteworthy cypherpunks.  Who among these people were in close contact with Hal Finney around 2006 - 2008 when BTC's deployment was, I guess, "being planned"?

Chances are, that person/group of persons is Satoshi.  Hal Finney could have been a part of it himself.

Jacob Appelbaum: Tor developer, political advocate.

Julian Assange: WikiLeaks founder, deniable cryptography inventor, journalist, co-author of Underground, author of Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, member of the International Subversives. Assange has stated that he joined the list in late 1993 or early 1994. An archive of his cypherpunks mailing list posts is at Cryptome

Adam Back: inventor of Hashcash and of NNTP-based Eternity networks.

Jim Bell: author of the Assassination Politics paper.

Steven Bellovin: Bell Labs researcher, later Columbia professor. Chief Technologist for the US Federal Trade Commission in 2012.

Matt Blaze: Bell Labs researcher, later professor at University of Pennsylvania; found flaws in the Clipper Chip.

Eric Blossom: designer of the Starium cryptographically secured mobile phone, founder of the GNU Radio project.

Jon Callas: technical lead on OpenPGP specification, co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of PGP Corporation, co-founder with Philip Zimmermann Silent Circle.

Bram Cohen: creator of BitTorrent.

Lance Cottrell: the original author of the Mixmaster Remailer software, and founder of Anonymizer Inc.

Matt Curtin: founder of Interhack Corporation, first faculty advisor of The Ohio State University Open Source Club, and lecturer at The Ohio State University.

Hugh Daniel (deceased): former Sun Microsystems employee, manager of the FreeS/WAN project (an early and important freeware IPsec implementation).

Dave Del Torto: PGPv3 volunteer, founding PGP Inc employee, longtime Cypherpunks physical meeting organizer, co-author of RFC3156 (PGP/MIME) standard, co-founder of IETF OpenPGP Working Group and the CryptoRights Foundation human rights non-profit, HighFire project principal architect.

Roger Dingledine: Tor project leader and developer

Hal Finney (deceased): cryptographer, main author of PGP 2.0 and the core crypto libraries of later versions of PGP; designer of RPOW

Randy French (pseudonym of Sandy Sandfort): producer of the first Cypherpunk genre pornographic film, Cryptic Seduction.

Michael Froomkin*: Distinguished Professor of Law University of Miami School of Law.

Eva Galperin: Malware researcher and security advocate, Electronic Frontier Foundation activist.

John Gilmore*: Sun Microsystems' fifth employee, co-founder of the Cypherpunks as well as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, project leader for FreeS/WAN.

Mike Godwin: Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer, electronic rights advocate.

Ian Goldberg*: professor at University of Waterloo, designer of the Off-the-record messaging protocol.

Nadia Heninger: assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania, security researcher.

Rop Gonggrijp: founder of XS4ALL, co-creator of the Cryptophone.

Peter Gutmann: researcher at University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Sean Hastings: founding CEO of Havenco and co-author of the book God Wants You Dead.

Marc Horowitz: author of the first PGP key server.

Suelette Dreyfus: co-author of Rubberhose, a deniable encryption archive.

Tim Hudson: co-author of SSLeay, the precursor to OpenSSL.

Eric Hughes: founding member of Cypherpunks, author of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto.

Peter Junger (deceased): Law professor at Case Western Reserve University.

Phil Karn: Bell Labs researcher, later at Qualcomm.

Paul Kocher: president of Cryptography Research, Inc., co-author of the SSL 3.0 protocol.

Ryan Lackey: co-founder of HavenCo, the world's first data haven.

Brian LaMacchia: designer of XKMS, research head at Microsoft Research.

Werner Koch: author of GNU Privacy Guard.

Isak Johnsson: Creator of the stealth technology used in Stuxnet, virus author, programmer.

Ben Laurie: founder of The Bunker, core OpenSSL team member, Google engineer.

Moxie Marlinspike: co-founder of Whisper Systems, author of the Convergence SSL authenticity system.

Morgan Marquis-Boire: researcher, security engineer, privacy activist.

Nick Mathewson: Tor developer

Timothy C. May: former Assistant Chief Scientist at Intel, author of A Crypto Anarchist Manifesto and the Cyphernomicon, and a Founding member of the Cypherpunks Mailing List.

 Jim McCoy: creator of MojoNation.

    Declan McCullagh: journalist specializing in security and privacy issues.

    Jude Milhon (deceased; a.k.a. "St. Jude"): a Founding Member of the Cypherpunks mailing list, credited with naming the group; co-creator of Mondo 2000 magazine.

    Sameer Parekh: former CEO of C2Net and co-founder of the CryptoRights Foundation human rights non-profit.

    Vipul Ved Prakash: co-founder of Sense/Net, author of Vipul's Razor, founder of Cloudmark.

    Runa Sandvik: Tor developer, political advocate.

    Len Sassaman (deceased): maintainer of the Mixmaster Remailer software, researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and a biopunk.

    Steve Schear: innovator of the warrant canary and eCache, founding member of the International Financial Cryptographer's Association and GNURadio, former Director Wireless Products and Smartcards at data security company Cylink, team member Counterpane and Director at MojoNation.

    Bruce Schneier*: well-known security author, founder of Counterpane.

    Andrea Shepard: Tor developer

    John Young: started the Cryptome web site.

    Peter Wayner: author of the book Translucent Databases.

    Barry Wels: discoverer of lock bumping, co-creator of the Cryptophone.

    Deborah Natsios: Cofounder of Cryptome, Creator of Cartome.

    Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn: DigiCash and MojoNation developer, co-designer of Tahoe-LAFS.

    Asher Wolf: Founder of Cryptoparty.

    Jillian C. York: Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

    Eric Andrew Young: co-author of SSLeay, the precursor to OpenSSL. Invented 256 bit SSL proof of concept.

    Philip Zimmermann: original creator of PGP v1.0 (1991), co-founder of PGP Inc (1996), co-founder with Jon Callas of Silent Circle.

[mitus-2]

I've come to a conclusion that Satoshi is not a human, but some kind of internet spirit that was formed by everyone's thought and desires.

I reached the answer after seeing so many people believes that they are Satoshi.

have you seen the movie Intestellar? it is in someway similar to what you just said

[manselr]

I've come to a conclusion that Satoshi is not a human, but some kind of internet spirit that was formed by everyone's thought and desires.

I reached the answer after seeing so many people believes that they are Satoshi.

have you seen the movie Intestellar? it is in someway similar to what you just said

We are all satoshi spawning bitcoin throught the conscience network, the open source coded got uploaded on the internet out of nowhere.

[slaveforanunnak1]

I think we all know who he is; N.S

[calchuchesta]

Satoshi Nakamoto will always be Dorian Nakamoto for me.

[Lauda]

I doubt that we are. Why should the man risk his life just to be present or work under the same alias on a different project?
He should be left alone. We should be hoping that nobody ever finds out who he really is.