Doesn't the fact that this thing was created by someone who can't be ....

[Luno]

The paper is there for you to read, and so is the code. Not just to read, but to build upon, improve it, ruin it, ignore it, use it. Lots of people have contributed to Bitcoin, before and after "Satoshi".

Let me ask you this: what would change regarding your and my use of Bitcoin if it turned out that "Satoshi" was a CS university professor? Or that he was a she? Or a shemale? Or a group of quants? Or employees of the Chinese government? Or former employees of the Chinese or Romanian or Irish Central Bank? Or a retired cryptanalyst and his 30-year old wife, who works for the Federal Reserve?  

Does any of this change anything in the source code and in various implementations the community is working on?

Indeed, sometimes it seems that the Bitcoin protocol must have been developed over many years by many smart people, then sent back into an alternate past (ours) as a fully-formed gift for us to benefit from.  Whoever it was, thanks

John Titor has been brought up on this forum in 2011. He said something about a global currency but did not mention Bitcoin by name. you are funny. Lets look up John Titors father and ask him as John Titor visited him last time he was here. The present John Titor is 15 years old now and was a baby when he visited his father the last time.

[Johnathan]

Indeed, sometimes it seems that the Bitcoin protocol must have been developed over many years by many smart people, then sent back into an alternate past (ours) as a fully-formed gift for us to benefit from.  Whoever it was, thanks

John Titor has been brought up on this forum in 2011. He said something about a global currency but did not mention Bitcoin by name. you are funny. Lets look up John Titors father and ask him as John Titor visited him last time he was here. The present John Titor is 15 years old now and was a baby when he visited his father the last time.

John Titor, lol.  Didn't he have to come back from the future to get an old IBM computer because someone discovered an ECDSA crack that would only run on that model's CPU?  Or maybe due to the nuclear war the network hash rate had gotten so low that he thought he could mount a 51% attack using it.  Whatever

[Luno]

Indeed, sometimes it seems that the Bitcoin protocol must have been developed over many years by many smart people, then sent back into an alternate past (ours) as a fully-formed gift for us to benefit from.  Whoever it was, thanks

John Titor has been brought up on this forum in 2011. He said something about a global currency but did not mention Bitcoin by name. you are funny. Lets look up John Titors father and ask him as John Titor visited him last time he was here. The present John Titor is 15 years old now and was a baby when he visited his father the last time.

John Titor, lol.  Didn't he have to come back from the future to get an old IBM computer because someone discovered an ECDSA crack that would only run on that model's CPU?  Or maybe due to the nuclear war the network hash rate had gotten so low that he thought he could mount a 51% attack using it.  Whatever

LOL even funnier. He claimed he had military rank, but he could just as easily have stolen the singularity generator from an army depot. Maybe he's a quant from JP Morgan?

[Kazimir]

It doesn't matter who Satoshi is (could be even multiple persons). He published an idea, and once the idea was out there, everybody could pick it up and work on it.

The software based on his (or their) idea is fully open source, transparent, and open for review to anyone.

Great replies so far. ..... just checking -  not a gram of suspicion from anybody ?

Suspicion about what?

[Kazimir]

Now obviously we can't compare this to fiats, but every other technical and crypto invention out there can be traced back (although sometimes with a bit of founder-discrepancy) to the inventor .. apart from this.

I rather put my faith in a technical or crypto invention that inherently doesn't NEED the ability to be traced back to anyone, in order to be able to trust it.

Suppose nobody would have ever heard of the famous Greek mathematician Pythagoras, and he published his mathematical proof for the a²+b²=c² rule anonymously. Would that make the proof, and thus the rule, any less trustworthy?

[albus]

All I know is that Satoshi is comfortably wealthy now.

Any idea by how much ?