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February 14, 2017, 08:26:13 PM |
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Why the king of bitcoins would leave everything without saying anything? He might be sick and something bad happened to him or he just wanted to stop spending time here because he had already lots of money .
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February 15, 2017, 02:46:28 AM |
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Well the worst part is that we can't know and I doubt that we ever will. If he was truly dead, I believe that he would leave in his last will maybe to reveal his identity. Those AI stories ain't that crazy too, who knows... maybe the government created bitcoin as they did TOR project. We can just speculate until one day, possibly, someone who's the real creator(s) of bitcoin comes forward.
I’m not sure that a government would have created bitcoin. What would the purpose be? If anything, it would hurt a government, since bitcoin is an alternate currency to the government-issued currency. Unless it was meant to track drug trade, but I’m not sure if is possible, since much of the bitcoin code is open-source.
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February 15, 2017, 04:30:50 AM |
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He of course can be dead, as Hal Finney is (peace on him). You know sometimes you do not really know what life can reserves you...
if we do not know about him. no one has any idea about him either he is man or woman either he is in fact present or it is a imaginary name no one know know about him so anything ca happen may be he is died in car accident may he is alive no clear idea to anyone about him.
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February 15, 2017, 05:50:41 AM |
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I read a long ago that someone did a deep research on the identification of Satoshi and came up with various probabilities related with the Satoshi. Unfortunately, no one yet could find the real Satoshi (with concrete evidence). We have a list of the candidates who are either claiming to be a Satoshi or someone claimed it. I went through many posts and articles about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto and made a list of the suspects, divided into 1) prime suspects, 2)others, and 3) group/institutions I know some sound very unlikely but I still mention them because I didn't want to make any prejudgments. Please let me know about other potential candidates. Happy Birthday Bitcoin!
1) Adam Back Charles Bry David Chaum Michael Clear Wei Dai Hal Finney Neal J. King Martti Malmi Shinichi Mochizuki John Nash Tatsuaki Okamoto Vladimir Oksman Nick Szabo
2) Gavin Andresen Andreas Antonopoulos Peter Bachman John Perry Barlow Doug Barnes Michel Bauwens BCNext Tim Berners-Lee Jim Bell Kay Bell Tamas Blummer Nicholas Bohm S. Boxx Stefan Brands Eli Brandt Greg Broiles Patrick Byrne Jan Camenisch Arthur Chandler Jim Choate Igor Chudov Bram Cohen Nick Collision Matt Corallo Geoff Dale Luke Dashjr L.Detweiler Whitfield Diffie Ray Dillinger Jamie Dinkelacker James A. Donald Dooglus Barry Downey Evan Duffield Vincent Durham Tony Eng Dan Fabulich Niels Ferguson Paul Ferguson Amos Fiat Art Forz Matthew Franklin Patri Friedman Curtis D. Frye Tony Gallippi Jeff Garzik Matthew Gaylor John Gilmore David Gordon James Orlin Grabbe Ron Gross Ashish Gulhati Laszlo Hanyecz Mike Hearn Martin Hellman Michael Hendrix Eyal Hertzog Robert A. Hettinga Eric Hughes Mike Ingle David Irvine Douglas Jackson Victor K. Jeff Kane Mark Karpeles Sunny King Steve Klingsporn Con Kolivas Dave Krieger Nick Lambert Matthew B. Landry Laurie Law Charles/Charlie Lee Vili Lehdonvirta Hendrik Lenstra Romana Machado Michael Marquardt Yossi Matias Gregory/Greg Maxwell Timothy C. May Jed McCaleb Stanton McCandlish James McCarthy Jim McCoy Alfred J. Menezes Perry E. Metzger Jude Milhon Max More David Naccache Daniel A. Nagy Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto Moni Naor Satoshi Obana Kazuo Ohta Donald O'Mahony Jackson Palmer Torben Pedersen Michael Peirce Jean-Marc Piveteau Naval Ravikant Ben Reeves Ron Rivest Meni Rosenfeld Nikolay Rozhok Gary Rowe Susan Sabett Mayank Sahu Steve Schear Andreas Schildbach Nils Schneider Berry Schoenmakers Adi Shamir Carol Shaw Charlie Shrem Barry Silbert Jerry Solinas Markus Stadler Bill Stewart Patrick Strateman Aaron Swartz Amir Taaki Yael Tauman Hitesh Tewari Will Thomas Peter Todd Zhou Tong Dustin D. Trammell Patrick P. Tsang Ross William Ulbricht Wladimir J. van der Laan Thomas Vartanian Roger Ver Paul Vernon Sebastiaan von Solms Erik Voorhees Michael Weber Russell E. Whitaker Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn Peter Wuille Moti Yung Phil Zimmerman Haibin Zhang
3) Group of above mention persons and/or others NSA Samsung/Toshiba/Nakamichi/Motorola
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February 15, 2017, 05:58:54 AM |
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I assume it is impossible, Satoshi Nakamoto is my idol, but his 3 million bitcoin has never moved, it means he never dumped his 3 million market on the market. But why he doesn't move? He deserves the money, hence it is a little possible to be dead. I am unhappy if he is dead.
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February 15, 2017, 06:00:58 AM |
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I thought it was well known that it was Hal Finney? RIP... :-(
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February 16, 2017, 11:02:51 PM |
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What if Satoshi was actually from the future and left us the concept of bitcoins so we would be able to avoid a future war against the government about the fiat currency? ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) There's too much possibilities. Satoshi can be a fake name. Satoshi can be dead, rich, or wanted. Satoshi might be a name of a group of people. Satoshi never actually existed and the first people just made up the name Satoshi so people would think that the founder has already left but the actual founder of bitcoin is just hiding at plain sight. Regardless of what has happened to Satoshi, we're still going to be enjoying bitcoins. Although some information about him would blow up the bitcoin-related parts of the Internet. The existence of bitcoin is already mysterious enough that I do not think we need to add any kind of fantastical scenario, Satoshi was most likely a genius with a peerless intellect to be able to dominate so many difficult topics, like coding, economics and cryptography.
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February 18, 2017, 03:33:57 AM |
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What if Satoshi was actually from the future and left us the concept of bitcoins so we would be able to avoid a future war against the government about the fiat currency? ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) There's too much possibilities. Satoshi can be a fake name. Satoshi can be dead, rich, or wanted. Satoshi might be a name of a group of people. Satoshi never actually existed and the first people just made up the name Satoshi so people would think that the founder has already left but the actual founder of bitcoin is just hiding at plain sight. Regardless of what has happened to Satoshi, we're still going to be enjoying bitcoins. Although some information about him would blow up the bitcoin-related parts of the Internet. The existence of bitcoin is already mysterious enough that I do not think we need to add any kind of fantastical scenario, Satoshi was most likely a genius with a peerless intellect to be able to dominate so many difficult topics, like coding, economics and cryptography. Quite the hyperbole, sure he made a great thing but a genius? I don't know seems like a cypherpunk who figured out a currency and it went from there. Yes, I'm a believer of simpler theories being more correct. I doubt Satoshi himself could've predicted what happened with the Silk Road and where it is now. He just happened to be in the correct era for previous cryptographic ideas and mass cloud computing power to become a useful asset.
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February 18, 2017, 03:35:28 AM |
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Also, reading about Hal Finney being Swatted in his last year of life while suffering cancer, I am not curious why Satoshi would hide.
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February 18, 2017, 06:39:29 AM |
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Why the king of bitcoins would leave everything without saying anything? He might be sick and something bad happened to him or he just wanted to stop spending time here because he had already lots of money .
That is another good speculation. It is also possible that satoshi did not reveal himself is because he doesnt need to. If he already has a millions of bitcoin at hand he will not worry anymore about blockchain or anything instead he is just enjoying his life with his accumulated wealth. He will not be worried about bitcoin since there are other developers who joined later on that are helping bitcoin to be a much better coin. Nakamoto is one hell of a billionaire who sits idly today.
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February 18, 2017, 07:28:43 AM |
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Also, reading about Hal Finney being Swatted in his last year of life while suffering cancer, I am not curious why Satoshi would hide.
he was not suffering cancer, he was sick with ALS, which is much worse than cancer ever will be besides Hal there was another guy here with 200k coins that was arrested or something, i remember he was talking how police irrupted in his house with all these example satoshi made the right decision to remain hidden
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February 18, 2017, 02:58:53 PM |
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Actually we don't know who is Satoshi or who is the team behind satoshi (I think that there were or are more people than 1)
If they or he is dead then the bitcoin number that are available is less than it was before so the price may be increased.
You are just speculating which we really can't believe or have any idea who is behind the bitcoin.
Bitcoin value high or low does not depends upon if the bitcoin creator Satoshi live or dead. Bitcoins are being mined and satoshi has nothing to do with that. It does not matter much if we did not know the exact person behind this technology but we do know that whoever he was , he was genius and master mind. You may think so but you are not right, - my opinion. Bitcoin price can be very much affected if the Satoshi identity will revealed to the public, it might my good but it can be bad too. The bitcoins of course that are mined and the first blocks were mined from Satoshi and we think that he has lots of bitcoin which made him very rich.
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March 28, 2018, 02:08:48 PM |
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i had a car accident today & cost me alot. lucky i gave my private keys to my brothers for emergency momments
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March 28, 2018, 02:47:32 PM |
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We can not know who the bitcoin coin writer is, maybe one person, maybe a group of people, so we can not say satoshi is dead, or a car accident. Thanks to satoshi for solving a problem that has been so far untold, it is a question of trust in currency transactions..
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March 28, 2018, 02:50:46 PM |
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If Satoshi is dead then someone inherited his bitcoins, wife or other relatives and they would spend it long ago no doubt... I don't think that nobody of his relatives had no clue of what satoshi was doing, when he was inventing Bitcoin.
Any action that is hidden will someday be revealed, surely one day we know who satoshi actually. How his face, how it is, etc. this is still a mystery. We can only pray for Bitcoin to always triumph . Up to several decades or even hundreds of years. Hopefully
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April 07, 2018, 05:57:05 AM |
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i don't think so . he is a wise and visionary person . the essence of bitcoin is decentralization .his undisclosed identity conforms to the decentralization principle of bitcoin . i believe he is alive .it has been watching bitcoin . if you are satoshi nakamoto , see this post ,please give ma a merit to prove that you are alive ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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April 19, 2018, 01:18:38 PM |
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Could be that one of this is correct, there are a lot of theories out there as to who Satoshi Nakamoto is and some even go as far as pointing out some prominent figures and saying they are Satoshi. One theory even states that the CIA invented Satoshi. With all these being said, I think a day will come when the world will finally find out who Satoshi is, we might be shocked to discover that satoshi is more of a group than a single person
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April 24, 2018, 11:08:07 AM |
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I doubt we'll ever know the truth about this. When we become aware of the identity of the creator of bitcoin, bitcoin will cease to be truly decentralized and independent.
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April 24, 2018, 11:17:25 AM |
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There is a chance that satoshi is dead because of car accident, car failure or any other reasons that might have been the reason but most probably satoshi is probably in hiding. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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April 24, 2018, 11:23:36 AM |
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I think he just wants to be anonymous, I mean I would
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