Satoshi can't be just one...

[n2004al]

Guys, correct me if I'm wrong but,
Considering the whole concept of how Bitcoins come into existence, Satoshi Nakamoto cannot be just one person, right? It must be a group...
if the whole thing lies in transactions, how could have Satoshi mined the genesis block all by himself?

May be so but not because of your arguments. Anyhow to many other big inventions (and unimaginable before their invention) was invented but only one person. That doesn't mean that everything is made by him. There were for sure even other people who may have contribution on it or in every invention but the mind who was able to materialize or concept the invention was only one. I think this is the case of invention of bitcoin. And Satoshi Nakamoto is only one person. We can remember here Thomas Edison who invented the electric lamp. For sure he have been helped by other people but their help was secondary compared to the role of the first. Or another one of our days: Bill Gates. He has invented Windows OS but the first version of Windows make laugh compared to this last one. And in this last the contribution of Bill Gates may be only the codes of software.

[Kevin77]

Guys, correct me if I'm wrong but,
Considering the whole concept of how Bitcoins come into existence, Satoshi Nakamoto cannot be just one person, right? It must be a group...
if the whole thing lies in transactions, how could have Satoshi mined the genesis block all by himself?

But basically one person gets the idea and the person who got the idea and started to make efforts to make it come true, was Satoshi Nakamoto, I seriously wish I had just 10% o the guys's talent.Really I wish i could ever meet him, though not sure how I will identify him even if met in real life.

[Kprawn]

My common sense says he was not alone in mining it once it was uploaded, but that it was tested on a separate small network before it was made public

and the white paper came after that. You would not just release a piece of software onto the internet, if it was not tested on a much smaller scale.

The fact that the whole idea, was actually a combination of different ideas, make me more inclined to the think that it might be a couple of people, who

sat together for many weeks and brainstormed the concept and then put the different puzzles together to create the protocol. Once this was released,

Hal Finney and a bunch of guys pitched in to help test it and it grew from there. 

[knowhow]

Satoshi made it alone the full concept and he created a monster,those one is alive till today,the thing is a genious behind bitcoin that made a new concept and valorizated our money.

[LiteCoinGuy]

Guys, correct me if I'm wrong but,
Considering the whole concept of how Bitcoins come into existence, Satoshi Nakamoto cannot be just one person, right? It must be a group...
if the whole thing lies in transactions, how could have Satoshi mined the genesis block all by himself?

satoshi was not alone..
but satoshi name was used by only one person.

even before 2009 genesis block, satoshi was talking to a few people on the cypherpunks forum. and many people were interested in his experiment in 2008 when he released the whitepaper.

so when it came time to start mining. he did not mine alone for 6-9 months. there were people mining the very first day.

chain analysis showed a second miner mined block 12 (no one knows who) and then someone block 28 and 29, someone at block 64.. then hal finney at block 73-78

i share that view. satoshi combined all stuff but got alot input from other devs. still a brilliant idea.

[stoat]

Satoshi Nakamoto is Nick Szabo.

See how the initials are the same just swapped around?

You can read Satoshi/Nicks blog at unenumerated.blogspot and you can see that it is the same person

Nick Szabo was a contributor to the Ethereum white paper.  Which makes Ethereum the full implementation of Satoshis vision of blockchain.

Some idiot will now try to deny it because "no one knows". Yeah right it's common knowlege idiots.

[Capitascism]

Satoshi Nakamoto is girl

[stoat]

Satoshi Nakamoto is girl

Nick Szabo is a man.

[AtheistAKASaneBrain]

There is contradicting sound arguments for this very interesting topic:

1) If satoshi is only one man, it would mean he is some kind of super genius, this is less probable than:
2) Satoshi was a group of very smart people, but then again, option number 2) makes it hard to believe as well since a group of people has more chances at leaking who satoshi is than just a single people...

We will never know I think

[franky1]

There is contradicting sound arguments for this very interesting topic:

1) If satoshi is only one man, it would mean he is some kind of super genius, this is less probable than:
2) Satoshi was a group of very smart people, but then again, option number 2) makes it hard to believe as well since a group of people has more chances at leaking who satoshi is than just a single people...

We will never know I think

the satoshi name belonged to one man, but the bitcoin idea came from a combination of other idea's from many people. but it was the one man that put the pieces together into one idea

[Mr Felt]

the girl theory is ok.  so is the szabo theory. i'm partial to the todd theory at the moment, though. 

[quadriple7]

i agree that satoshi most probably wasnt just one person, i believe it was a team because they did a lot of work what would be very hard for one person

[stoat]

Are you guys dumb as fuck or is this a conspiracy of silence??

SATOSHI IS NICK SZABO!!!!! Fucksake you IDIOTS

[stoat]

Are you guys dumb or is this a coverup??  If no ones goong to lend even the slightest credence to my post then I'm going to have to assume it's the latter.

[155UE]

Satoshi Nakamoto is girl

Any proof for that? If satoshi was multiple people, it would be a lot harder to keep the whole thing hidden. Chances are someone will accidentally revel something.

[stoat]

Why are you denying the obvious facts in front of your faces?

Satoshi Nakamoto is Nick Szabo.

Think about it, why would "Satoshi" reference Hal Finney and Wei Dai but not the main key player out of the three people Hal Nick and Wei?

Why would he not reference arguably the most important out of those three people?

It doesn't take Hercule Poirot to see that Satoshi is Nick Szabo.

[russian_pete]

To me it was obvious it was not just one since the beggining! Come on guys, why would anyone invest in something like that without even exchanging ideias with peers? Specially in the academic area, where it's more than natural that people will share their projects and build stuff together...

[franky1]

To me it was obvious it was not just one since the beggining! Come on guys, why would anyone invest in something like that without even exchanging ideias with peers? Specially in the academic area, where it's more than natural that people will share their projects and build stuff together...

he was swapping idea's.. thats been public knowledge right from the start.. i dont see why people would think he was not swapping idea's
cypherpunks website as just one example.

[stoat]

Satoshi nakamoto is nick szabo.  Prove me wrong.

[BTCBinary]

I believe he is just one person. he probably did all the research byhimself but once it came to testing he had to have some help.
I think this thread explains a lot:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=507458.0