Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?

[bitsat alien]

I know he posted in this forum... Did anyone ever look into the forums logs to maybe trace him by IP address?

[remotemass]

I know he posted in this forum... Did anyone ever look into the forums logs to maybe trace him by IP address?

He always used Tor Browser and VPN to hide his real IP address.

[Gleb Gamow]

I know he posted in this forum... Did anyone ever look into the forums logs to maybe trace him by IP address?

He always used Tor Browser and VPN to hide his real IP address.

And this is true because which admin looked at such for no reason?

User: Admin, can you look to see where Satoshi logs in from?
Admin: Sure, no prob.
User: Thanks.
Admin: WOW! This dude is slick. He or she used Tor and an VPN to hide his real IP address.
User: Thanks anyway.

Question: Which admin looked and why, then how did this truism become mainstream if the request was via some official means, for even via any other means, I can't think of a situation where an admin would take it upon himself to see what they could dig up then report the none-findings to the community. Think about it! This doesn't make a lick of sense.

[HCLivess]

Szabo, look at his yesterday tweets ("It doesn't work like that. Learn or GTFO"). Typical Satoshi.
It is not Hal Finney, because Hal actually protected Szabo in his letter to the community by being suspiciously specific about the "Japanese origins". It is just too obvious.

The theory of the Byzantine generals has a practical equivalent -- the problem of replicating a serivce -- or, equivalently, a distributed object -- in such as way as to provide distributed security, or fault tolerance against arbitrary behavior of up to T malicious and colluding servers.

These services or distributed objects are sometimes called "intrusion tolerant", because the replicated service can resist attack and corruption of up to T servers. However, in the real world more perpetrated by insiders rather than intruders. Byzantine-resilient replication of a service across administrative domains or jurisdictions solves both problems.

-Nick Szabo, 2003
empahsis added

[monsanto]

[jones techbit]

Add Tatsuaki Okamoto on the poll

Tatsuaki Okamoto out of the suggested people definitely has the best chances so far to be Satoshi, there are a whole lot of similarities.

[Stifler]

I think it's none of the above and probably nobody we've even suspected. He's probably just some random geek who came up with a great idea and just put it out into the world.

Add Tatsuaki Okamoto on the poll

Tatsuaki Okamoto out of the suggested people definitely has the best chances so far to be Satoshi, there are a whole lot of similarities.

Like what? I think the name is far too similar. No point using an alias like this.

[bryant.coleman]

Here is my guess:



Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a mathematician from Saint Petersburg, Russia. He had proved the Soul conjecture in 1994, and the Thurston's geometrization conjecture in 2003.

[bitsum]

whoever he is I have a vague idea in mind that he will show up soon may be in anonymous way.

[spud21]

I know he posted in this forum... Did anyone ever look into the forums logs to maybe trace him by IP address?

He always used Tor Browser and VPN to hide his real IP address.

And this is true because which admin looked at such for no reason?

User: Admin, can you look to see where Satoshi logs in from?
Admin: Sure, no prob.
User: Thanks.
Admin: WOW! This dude is slick. He or she used Tor and an VPN to hide his real IP address.
User: Thanks anyway.

Question: Which admin looked and why, then how did this truism become mainstream if the request was via some official means, for even via any other means, I can't think of a situation where an admin would take it upon himself to see what they could dig up then report the none-findings to the community. Think about it! This doesn't make a lick of sense.

Theymos looked at his logged IPs addresses according to this post. He doesn't say why but he thinks they are Tor addresses.

I'll probably release Satoshi's PMs and logged IPs addresses in ~8 years. This'd probably be of great historical interest. (Though he always used Tor, as far as I can tell.)

Although I don't know much about Tor I guess theymos must because admins need to know a lot of technical things the rest of us don't have to take an interest in. If he says they are Tor addresses I trust his judgement.

[subSTRATA]

I know he posted in this forum... Did anyone ever look into the forums logs to maybe trace him by IP address?

He always used Tor Browser and VPN to hide his real IP address.

And this is true because which admin looked at such for no reason?

User: Admin, can you look to see where Satoshi logs in from?
Admin: Sure, no prob.
User: Thanks.
Admin: WOW! This dude is slick. He or she used Tor and an VPN to hide his real IP address.
User: Thanks anyway.

Question: Which admin looked and why, then how did this truism become mainstream if the request was via some official means, for even via any other means, I can't think of a situation where an admin would take it upon himself to see what they could dig up then report the none-findings to the community. Think about it! This doesn't make a lick of sense.

Theymos looked at his logged IPs addresses according to this post. He doesn't say why but he thinks they are Tor addresses.

I'll probably release Satoshi's PMs and logged IPs addresses in ~8 years. This'd probably be of great historical interest. (Though he always used Tor, as far as I can tell.)

Although I don't know much about Tor I guess theymos must because admins need to know a lot of technical things the rest of us don't have to take an interest in. If he says they are Tor addresses I trust his judgement.

i believe there is a way to distinguish TOR traffic from regular traffic, same as how some (terrible) ISP's can detect users that use p2p traffic. My guess is theymos has observed the traffic from satoshi's use on the forum and has a general idea that he used TOR to access the forum.

[moriartybitcoin]

I know he posted in this forum... Did anyone ever look into the forums logs to maybe trace him by IP address?

He always used Tor Browser and VPN to hide his real IP address.

And this is true because which admin looked at such for no reason?

User: Admin, can you look to see where Satoshi logs in from?
Admin: Sure, no prob.
User: Thanks.
Admin: WOW! This dude is slick. He or she used Tor and an VPN to hide his real IP address.
User: Thanks anyway.

Question: Which admin looked and why, then how did this truism become mainstream if the request was via some official means, for even via any other means, I can't think of a situation where an admin would take it upon himself to see what they could dig up then report the none-findings to the community. Think about it! This doesn't make a lick of sense.

Theymos looked at his logged IPs addresses according to this post. He doesn't say why but he thinks they are Tor addresses.

I'll probably release Satoshi's PMs and logged IPs addresses in ~8 years. This'd probably be of great historical interest. (Though he always used Tor, as far as I can tell.)

Although I don't know much about Tor I guess theymos must because admins need to know a lot of technical things the rest of us don't have to take an interest in. If he says they are Tor addresses I trust his judgement.

i believe there is a way to distinguish TOR traffic from regular traffic, same as how some (terrible) ISP's can detect users that use p2p traffic. My guess is theymos has observed the traffic from satoshi's use on the forum and has a general idea that he used TOR to access the forum.

I'm pretty sure all TOR nodes are listed in an online directory somewhere

[spud21]

I know he posted in this forum... Did anyone ever look into the forums logs to maybe trace him by IP address?

He always used Tor Browser and VPN to hide his real IP address.

And this is true because which admin looked at such for no reason?

User: Admin, can you look to see where Satoshi logs in from?
Admin: Sure, no prob.
User: Thanks.
Admin: WOW! This dude is slick. He or she used Tor and an VPN to hide his real IP address.
User: Thanks anyway.

Question: Which admin looked and why, then how did this truism become mainstream if the request was via some official means, for even via any other means, I can't think of a situation where an admin would take it upon himself to see what they could dig up then report the none-findings to the community. Think about it! This doesn't make a lick of sense.

Theymos looked at his logged IPs addresses according to this post. He doesn't say why but he thinks they are Tor addresses.

I'll probably release Satoshi's PMs and logged IPs addresses in ~8 years. This'd probably be of great historical interest. (Though he always used Tor, as far as I can tell.)

Although I don't know much about Tor I guess theymos must because admins need to know a lot of technical things the rest of us don't have to take an interest in. If he says they are Tor addresses I trust his judgement.

i believe there is a way to distinguish TOR traffic from regular traffic, same as how some (terrible) ISP's can detect users that use p2p traffic. My guess is theymos has observed the traffic from satoshi's use on the forum and has a general idea that he used TOR to access the forum.

I'm pretty sure all TOR nodes are listed in an online directory somewhere

Is there an online directory of all TOR nodes that ever existed? If there is then theymos could have already checked Satoshi's IP addresses and ensured they are from Tor. That might explain why he discussed publishing them, because he knows for certain that they lead nowhere.

[aahzmundus]

You guys know what? I am Satoshi Nakamoto 

[BayAreaCoins]

You guys know what? I am Satoshi Nakamoto 

called it

[daddybios]

I did not vote in the poll. All this is another speculation. We will never know the whole truth.

[bitbets]

Theory that Hal Finney became desperate after becoming sick/afflicted, and released bitcoin on the world/internet to try and make some money to pay his own way, and to pay for high costs of doctors etc...
where he may have had some reservations before-time, but after becoming
afflicted he then became desparate to make money to pay doctors
and pay for his own needs and stuff, you know.
Hal may have hired a fellow named 'satoshi nakamoto' who happened to live in the same town, and Hal had maybe become acquaintances with him in the past.
He hired satoshi to help out, because his afflictions made it hard to do the work himself.
It is a theory.

Here is the link below.

Hal Finney's afflictions & the effect on the creation of bitcoin
http://smartcoin.boards.net/thread/47/hal-finneys-afflictions-effect-creation

[aahzmundus]

You guys know what? I am Satoshi Nakamoto 

called it

Now don't tell me that you don't believe me 

[Xiaoxiao]

Yep, I've always thought he is someone that is still active in the community as well.

[aahzmundus]

Yep, I've always thought he is someone that is still active in the community as well.

And I told, that someone is me