Is there a chance Satoshi is dead? Car accident, heart failure, ect

[artows21]

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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[wpd]

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.

[Jewell]

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.

[Dudeperfect]

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

[N00Bitcoin]

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.

[MNDan]

I thought it was well known that it was Hal Finney? RIP... :-(

[South Park]

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?

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.

[merlinsbeard]

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?

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.

[merlinsbeard]

Also, reading about Hal Finney being Swatted in his last year of life while suffering cancer, I am not curious why Satoshi would hide.

[Xester]

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.

[Amph]

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

[jpoker272727]

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.

[rapidleech]

i had a car accident today & cost me alot. lucky i gave my private keys to my brothers for emergency momments

[DUHOIxx]

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..

[coinmaster241]

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

[Clearstream]

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  

[Crytptomeniac]

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

[qtronix]

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.

[neerajmittaljii]

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.

[xyz_abc_def]

I think he just wants to be anonymous, I mean I would