Who is Satoshi? Why did he hide his identity?

[Zaducis]

Satoshi is an agent of the CIA or the FBI. Its main task is to destroy the financial system of China, India and Russia. In general, he is good guy just decided to slightly dilute the discus.

[Gleb Gamow]

Satoshi is an agent of the CIA or the FBI. Its main task is to destroy the financial system of China, India and Russia. In general, he is good guy just decided to slightly dilute the discus.

A case could be made for there being some validity therewithin.

[darkangel11]

If I were Satoshi I'd prefer my identity to be a secret. When bitcoin was only a harmless little experiment Satoshi had no reasons to worry, but now when it became big and draws big money he should remain in hiding.
People are crazy, he'd need bodyguards and security systems to feel safe and even that wouldn't be able to protect him from the government.

Which begs the question, why did Satoshi's mindset present Bitcoin anonymously and remained such from the get-go if the experiment was benign? A marketing ploy or something quasi-sinister to have in place if or when the world's financial markets based on fiat begin their collapses as currently witnessed?

If Satoshi's a single person, perhaps a man, then in retrospect he's a pussy for not standing up facing whatever as so many men and women worldwide have in the face of persecution et al. while espousing their myriad respective causes in bettering humanity.

Maybe he/they saw the big picture and predicted this protocol will grow.
Makes me wonder if, with enough resources they could be traced through this forum. Satoshi used it for a while, so there should be some traces left in the database. I know he surely hid his ip, but this is not a simple dox we're talking about but a CIA level trace, involving contacting the owners of possible VPN servers or internet cafes he used, a writing style comparison and profiling.
He might be a pussy in your understanding, many innovators are sensitive loners, sometimes even mildly autistic.

[eXpl0sive]

If I were Satoshi I'd prefer my identity to be a secret. When bitcoin was only a harmless little experiment Satoshi had no reasons to worry, but now when it became big and draws big money he should remain in hiding.
People are crazy, he'd need bodyguards and security systems to feel safe and even that wouldn't be able to protect him from the government.

This can turn out to be a very good plot for a Hollywood thriller.
Satoshi's identity is revealed and now the race is between the ones who want to burn him down and the ones who want to protect him. Elon Musk might as well send him to Mars on one of his SpaceX rockets

[thepo1m]

Satoshi is an agent of the CIA or the FBI. Its main task is to destroy the financial system of China, India and Russia. In general, he is good guy just decided to slightly dilute the discus.

This is the first time I'm reading this school of thought, interesting that you mentioned China, but it is a public knowledge that CHina dominate Bitcoin mining and market.

[burner2014]

When I joined bitcoin forum I got interested who Satoshi is, since I got curious and amaze by what he did. But, he is not known by everyone but according to the research Satoshi Nakamoto is a Japanese man and it is his real name and some said that Satoshi is a group of people. We don't really know the truth yet but we are thankful whoever he is.

[boris singer]

I think Satoshi Nakamoto just a mascot of bitcoin project. Deliberately created exclusively with one figure who made his identity was not revealed, because they are aware of bitcoin will have a big impact for world economy, even the dark market (anything other than a real financial system). Surely it would be very risky.

We see a masterpiece of william shakespeare in satoshi identity. A major influence without form creator.

[sportis]

I truly believe that Satoshi is not a real person. I consider that is almost impossible a man to be so intelligent and perceptive. Also, I have the view that behind him is hiding a group of people with the view to prepare the world for a monetary system completely different from that we use till now. Certainly, if there is actually this group (2-3 people) and not only a man is extremely difficult to stay until now in the anonymity except if for any reason they are no longer in life and have taken the secret with them. Of course all of these are conspiracy theories but in the end may be in a future moment we will learn the truth.

[Gleb Gamow]

If I were Satoshi I'd prefer my identity to be a secret. When bitcoin was only a harmless little experiment Satoshi had no reasons to worry, but now when it became big and draws big money he should remain in hiding.
People are crazy, he'd need bodyguards and security systems to feel safe and even that wouldn't be able to protect him from the government.

This can turn out to be a very good plot for a Hollywood thriller.
Satoshi's identity is revealed and now the race is between the ones who want to burn him down and the ones who want to protect him. Elon Musk might as well send him to Mars on one of his SpaceX rockets

You could call it Cryptoraker.



How 'bout a Taste of Cryptoraker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB1aG_tP1C0

[adam440]

Is there any proof of life of Nakamoto since December 2010? Or did he disappear and no-one has seen him ever since?

If I were Satoshi I'd prefer my identity to be a secret. When bitcoin was only a harmless little experiment Satoshi had no reasons to worry, but now when it became big and draws big money he should remain in hiding.
People are crazy, he'd need bodyguards and security systems to feel safe and even that wouldn't be able to protect him from the government.

This can turn out to be a very good plot for a Hollywood thriller.
Satoshi's identity is revealed and now the race is between the ones who want to burn him down and the ones who want to protect him. Elon Musk might as well send him to Mars on one of his SpaceX rockets

You could call it Cryptoraker.

Pretty good image  .

[South Park]

If I were Satoshi I'd prefer my identity to be a secret. When bitcoin was only a harmless little experiment Satoshi had no reasons to worry, but now when it became big and draws big money he should remain in hiding.
People are crazy, he'd need bodyguards and security systems to feel safe and even that wouldn't be able to protect him from the government.

Which begs the question, why did Satoshi's mindset present Bitcoin anonymously and remained such from the get-go if the experiment was benign? A marketing ploy or something quasi-sinister to have in place if or when the world's financial markets based on fiat begin their collapses as currently witnessed?

If Satoshi's a single person, perhaps a man, then in retrospect he's a pussy for not standing up facing whatever as so many men and women worldwide have in the face of persecution et al. while espousing their myriad respective causes in bettering humanity.

There are many possible reasons Satoshi choose to stay hidden, there are many inventors that have claimed to invent things like automobiles that run with water and stuff like that, and they claim they were visited by shady men trying to buy them out or threatening them, some claim they have been murders because of it, and we wonder why satoshi decided to remain hidden when his invention goes against the interest of banks and governments?

[Daedra]

I with I knew pal, I wish I knew... I would say it's the greatest mystery of the XXI century

[coin revolution]

OP, ask yourself: if you invented competition to the traditional banking and monetary system, would you like your identity to be known?

the entity using the satoshi pseudonym is one person. that is established.

Any conclusive investigations regarding if he was indeed a single entity or not?

I do not think Satoshi hid his identity because of this reason. Because there are many people who still want to keep the bitcoin system up and running. And these people do not hide their identities. The current economic system is already based on rivalry.

[Arvydas77]

Why does it matter who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Actually, the community of cryptographers is quite small, especially if we are talking about very talented cryptographers. So, it is not difficult to find out who was the creator or creators of Bitcoin. But why it matters? We should care only about Bitcoin.

[coin revolution]

Why does it matter who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Actually, the community of cryptographers is quite small, especially if we are talking about very talented cryptographers. So, it is not difficult to find out who was the creator or creators of Bitcoin. But why it matters? We should care only about Bitcoin.

I wonder what kind of education the person who set up such a system is and how old he is. He has created something that requires knowledge and intelligence.

I want to know how Satoshi has developed himself.

[Roboabhishek]

Why did Satoshi hide his identity? Has anyone seen Satoshi in real life?
Is Satoshi one person? Or is it a community?

He has to hide his identity because he invented a currency which does not require the permission of Government of his country or any other and if he has revealed his ID then i am sure the gov will ask him reasons and other stuff.
you can think that yourself also.

[SHAWN-MIDWAYS]

Why did Satoshi hide his identity? Has anyone seen Satoshi in real life?
Is Satoshi one person? Or is it a community?

it is imperative that Satoshi hides his identity  for safety reasons has other individuals might want a piece of his bitcoins or governments might persuade him to shut down the digital currency.
And its believed satoshi is a group of computer scientists who wrote the code of bitcoin...

[d@nte]

Satoshi is an agent of the CIA or the FBI. Its main task is to destroy the financial system of China, India and Russia. In general, he is good guy just decided to slightly dilute the discus.

Very creative. But that would not make much sense as he/she/they could bring problems to the US government as well. It also would not make sense a theory that it was inserted in the code some way to make the US government to take control of this, because Bitcoin is open source, and the developers would have already found out to that point.

[erickkyut]

another topic similar to the old ones. Satoshi Nakamoto is said to be the founder of bitcoin but no one can prove his existence or if it is really true or not. the reason why he hides his identity is because of security purposes. if the world knows that he is the owner of bitcoin, they will tax him and his life might also be in danger. those are the reasons why he kept his identity!

[Vlad2Vlad]

OP should add this thread cause it may answer your question in the next few weeks.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1765953.0