Who is Satoshi? Why did he hide his identity?

[Pattart]

Satoshi Nakamoto is an operation code-name not one person.

yeah I agree with you, that does not mean he's the Japanese people by that name. I think he used a pseudonym or a code name. I do not know for certain why he hide his identity, but if he shows up. may be little effect on bitcoin

[markyminer]

Satoshi Nakamoto is an operation code-name not one person.

yeah I agree with you, that does not mean he's the Japanese people by that name. I think he used a pseudonym or a code name. I do not know for certain why he hide his identity, but if he shows up. may be little effect on bitcoin

in fact no one have any clear idea about satoshi and everyone is making their own assumption about Satosh. may be satoshi is the fake name of a person or may be the name of a company, but no one has any clear idea about it. i think he do not want do disclose his identity may be he has some strategy for that and that is my he do not want his identity to show.

[requester]

May be he have fear of exposing his identity because of developing such a system where money could be made by a computer and that would put all financial status of any country into danger. because in bitcoin system except electricity bill and initial investment money is free and if everybody start to make free money then there would financial was and depression in the world.

[carlisle1]

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

probably there are many reasons why satoshi keeps his identity hidden since the last 8 years but I don't have any idea what are those things, I doubt that there could be anyone who has seen him in person as satoshi is possibly not only a one person but a group of people who were wanting to make a new way of transaction and banking and escape the old ones .

[coin revolution]

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

coin revlution has asked four questions at once. I am here to answer the four questions.
1. Why did Satoshi hide his identity ? It was needed to hide.
2. Has anyone seen Satoshi in real life ? Yes
3. Is Satoshi one person ? Yes
4. Or is it a community ? Not a community.

Your questions have many answers but I have given four answers.
If you want to know other answers, you can ask me privately.

As far as I know, Satoshi was not seen by anyone. I mean, it's just a character created on the internet. It's a really serious claim you say.
How did you get this information. Who saw Satoshi in real life?

[shannen87]

BTC was made to provide ANONYMOUS transactions, so why reveal the founder's name?? It's against it's own (BTC) beliefs.
After all Satoshi might be a fake name, an alias, an internet character.

[Patatas]

BTC was made to provide ANONYMOUS transactions, so why reveal the founder's name?? It's against it's own (BTC) beliefs.

Not really.Making the transactions anonymous wasn't really the theory behind bitcoin's success.Blockchain was/is.Decentralized transactions might be another one I may add.It may look anonymous but the protocal doesn't really implement the concept in its practicality.

After all Satoshi might be a fake name, an alias, an internet character.

Or a group of people
Or Chuck Norris
Or theymos
Or 100 other characters no one cares about.

[20kevin20]

BTC was made to provide ANONYMOUS transactions, so why reveal the founder's name?? It's against it's own (BTC) beliefs.
After all Satoshi might be a fake name, an alias, an internet character.

Yeah, and except all that you said.. Revealing such data is critical for your safety. There are many people targeting that guy for different things, and the reveal of him might actually turn into a bad thing: the mainstream media will probably publish headlines like "Meet the founder of the criminals' currency" which will get people mad about it and never put their interest and trust in BTC. Not a good idea to do it.

[roland808]

Wherever he is hes sitting on a pile of BTC 

[raven7886]

Wherever he is hes sitting on a pile of BTC 

But that must be the prime reason why he is hiding his identity.
I am just wondering how Bill Gates is tolerating the donations and begging requests he must be getting everyday. Might be Bill Gates is not managing any forum directly nor he is not just dealing with the new system of currency.

[Sled]

Satoshi or Satoshi Nakamoto is the creator of this beautiful cryptocurrency which what we are using now. I think he is hiding his identity because of security reason because we all know that he has a lot of bitcoin on his wallet and removing that mask on his face and revealing his identity is very risky decision since if he do that then people will know who exactly he is and where he lives and so on and he will become vulnerable for criminals who want to get all his bitcoin.

[boris singer]

Satoshi or Satoshi Nakamoto is the creator of this beautiful cryptocurrency which what we are using now. I think he is hiding his identity because of security reason because we all know that he has a lot of bitcoin on his wallet and removing that mask on his face and revealing his identity is very risky decision since if he do that then people will know who exactly he is and where he lives and so on and he will become vulnerable for criminals who want to get all his bitcoin.

There are two possibilities why Satoshi hide personal identity, the first is due to deliberate. Satoshi consider bitcoin can be decentralized without any rule, then he has succeeded and this is most successful promotion in the world. Another possibility, bitcoin is excellence in cryptology, bitcoin managed to have an outstanding value of the usage ratio, if Satoshi appeared, he would be pursued by anyone in the world, including mafia and corrupt govt. They will not steal all the wealth of satoshi, but they would treat him as a moneymaker machine that never stops.

[st0nefish]

Nobody knows who Satoshi is. There is not much to do now.
To me, it's a wise way to hide his identity. It would be bad for this bitcoin if he did not hide his identity. If the satoshi had something bad to do, it would have a negative effect on the bitcoin.

Such a system should not be connected to a single person.

[Babayega31]

Satoshi is a Japanese man Satoshi Nakamoto who created the smallest unit of bitcoin and I think he has his own personal reason why he hid himself, and I guess its his security. Maybe now he's too old or maybe dead, it was just his legend that his name became a unit of bitcoin which everybody still using right now.

[DoublerHunter]

Satoshi is one of the greatest person that ever live because he is very genius to create bitcoin and now we can appreciate how good is bitcoin.

I think he hide his identity because he is afraid to be instant famous or very attractive to bad people like being murdered because he got a lot of bitcoin.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

IMO you are looking at this the wrong way! Why don't you put yourself in Satoshis shoes and think of how many people,agencies,governments would want him/them.
If that's not enough,imagine what drug lords or terror groups would do with such a brilliant being like Satoshi with a gifted mind. Respect the unexpected, think through your risks.

[BitsifyOfficial]

IMO you are looking at this the wrong way! Why don't you put yourself in Satoshis shoes and think of how many people,agencies,governments would want him/them.
If that's not enough,imagine what drug lords or terror groups would do with such a brilliant being like Satoshi with a gifted mind. Respect the unexpected, think through your risks.

^Exactly that. You nailed it man, enough said. Satoshi did the right move staying anonymous, I'm sure if his/their identity was known he would've been assassinated by now, that or he's hiding from the world in a high security prison in a sealed out cell for the sake of his own safety. Both those endings are horrid, lucky he/they stayed anonymous.

[BeGoods]

Satoshi is a Japanese man Satoshi Nakamoto who created the smallest unit of bitcoin and I think he has his own personal reason why he hid himself, and I guess its his security. Maybe now he's too old or maybe dead, it was just his legend that his name became a unit of bitcoin which everybody still using right now.

I think the name satoshi Nakamoto does not mean that his real name, maybe it is a code name to avoid identity exposed.
no one knows where he is. it seems he managed to conceal his identity

[TastyChillySauce00]

IMO you are looking at this the wrong way! Why don't you put yourself in Satoshis shoes and think of how many people,agencies,governments would want him/them.
If that's not enough,imagine what drug lords or terror groups would do with such a brilliant being like Satoshi with a gifted mind. Respect the unexpected, think through your risks.

^Exactly that. You nailed it man, enough said. Satoshi did the right move staying anonymous, I'm sure if his/their identity was known he would've been assassinated by now, that or he's hiding from the world in a high security prison in a sealed out cell for the sake of his own safety. Both those endings are horrid, lucky he/they stayed anonymous.

Definitely, as I've heard rumours from some sources that Satoshi is now currently owned 1,5 Million bitcoins and it's a damn huge number that makes people getting triggered to do criminal things against satoshi.
It's a wise move that satoshi keeps on hiding his identity and have no intention to reveal it by himself, a wise decision that not all people know.

[eXpl0sive]

If you were Satoshi, wouldn't it be cool to just roam around the city, sit in a coffee shop and look at all those people who endlessly talk about Bitcoin but don't know you are the one?

I'D LOVE THAT!