Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Very nice deductions Phinnaeus

Stumbled upon it by accident between sessions at MFCs.  

[Viceroy]

Meng Weng Wong and I met Richard Stallman when I invited RMS to speak at our University.  Professor Stallman turned 60 about a month ago.

Second page of an epic thread.  

[pand70]

I liked better the other Satoshi Nakamoto.You know the mathematician one from some days before.

He was THE S.N.

[Benson Samuel]

http://bensonsamuel.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/is-ashish-gulhati-an-indian-satoshi-nakamoto/

[Phinnaeus Gage]

https://twitter.com/adam3us

Adam Back
@adam3us
cryptographer, privacy enhancing tech, ecash, inventor of hashcash (bitcoin is hashcash extended with inflation control)
Malta · cypherspace.org

Satoshi's father was... (purposely didn't include the link, but...)

Founding Chair was a prominent development economist with the World Bank and Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He authored many books throughout his career...

[ionstorm]

Ashish is not Satoshi, your very close with Adam Back, he probably knows Satoshi :-)

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Ashish is not Satoshi, your very close with Adam Back, he probably knows Satoshi :-)

I've already shown that they've worked on HashCash together.

Ashish would be more versed in the backend of DMT by Grabbe then Adam.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

http://bensonsamuel.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/is-ashish-gulhati-an-indian-satoshi-nakamoto/

ROFLMMFAO!!!

Between sessions at MFC’s...

I wouldn't change a word. I pitty the souls trying to figure out what MFC is/was years from now.

Gammar alert! (minor--one too many spaces, I believe):

...most elusive man/ collective on...

[Este Nuno]

A good effort I think. But I highly doubt this guy is Satoshi. He appears to have a totally different personality.

No way in hell would someone like this sit on all those mined coins and not convert a single satoshi into fiat.

[Este Nuno]

Unless the guy totally matured at some point to become someone capable of doing what Satoshi did then maybe. But with a twitter handle like an4rky I highly doubt it.

[oakpacific]

One counter-evidence: Satoshi seemed to be a Windows programmer, rather than a Linux programmer(which I don't think is an identity he needs to hide, after all there too many out there fit this stereotype)

[jackjack]

One counter-evidence: Satoshi seemed to be a Windows programmer, rather than a Linux programmer(which I don't think is an identity he needs to hide, after all there too many out there fit this stereotype)

Good point

[Viceroy]

One counter-evidence: Satoshi seemed to be a Windows programmer, rather than a Linux programmer(which I don't think is an identity he needs to hide, after all there too many out there fit this stereotype)

I'm not sure what this means.  A programmer is a programmer is a programmer.  Programming is completely independent of the machine you code on.  A skilled programmer, like Meng Weng Wong, can move between sun/sgi/windows/linux/osx/cpm/macOS without a hiccup because he is a programmer.  We learned on SUN UNIX equipment, but could just as easily use Dr Badler's SGI array down the hall or the windows PC labs all over campus.  

Linux was invented in the 1990's it is far newer than microsoft's offerings.  It is logical to suppose that anyone over 30 started on a Windows PC rather than a Linux PC and might be fluid in either environment.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

A good effort I think. But I highly doubt this guy is Satoshi. He appears to have a totally different personality.

No way in hell would someone like this sit on all those mined coins and not convert a single satoshi into fiat.

With his skills, I'm pretty sure he wanted for nothing more than to get by semi-comfortably, coupled with his parents, namely dad, being an economist and diplomat, of sorts. His values were probably different than how western society folks were raised.

Unless the guy totally matured at some point to become someone capable of doing what Satoshi did then maybe. But with a twitter handle like an4rky I highly doubt it.

I'm pretty sure his an4rky moniker reflects his discontent toward the US for her false flag operations and manipulating the monetary system around the world.

His mom is a dual citizen, working mainly in DC to lobby efforts for her noble cause back in India.

Ashish moved to Oz shortly after Satoshi stopped posting publicly.

Ashish has a beautiful command of the English language, capable of penning any continental style, I assume.

Look at the list of programs he's a master of, and the list of projects he built from scratch, then tell me that there's no way he, acting alone, couldn't have developed Bitcoin--from scratch. But he didn't necessarily have to build it from scratch, for he had the HashCash code(s) at his disposal.

Hell, he even came out and stated such in no uncertain terms that that was exactly what he was going to do.

[Viceroy]

Have you asked him if he is satoshi yet?  Or pointed him to this thread?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Have you asked him if he is satoshi yet?  Or pointed him to this thread?

Dude, why pester Satoshi! I'm sure he's flattered that he's been outed, now we'll wait from him to come to us.

<this post may be sarcastic>

[Viceroy]

* Viceroy bows to the great Satoshi Nakamoto while tilting his hat to Phinneaus

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Speaking of value system, a couple posts up, I present to you Ashish's mentor.

http://opensource.org/node/645

One of the pillars of the Indian FOSS Community passed away this week. Known for his humor, his uncompromising honesty and his generosity in sharing FOSS knowledge with like-minded individuals. His sudden passing after a massive heart attack has shocked and saddened his friends across the FOSS World.

Raj Mathur (aka OldMonk) was a founding member of the seminal Indian Linux Users Group, Delhi (aka ilug-d), and a very active member of the free and open source community. Well respected and extremely knowledgeable, he was often sought after for advice, which he readily dispersed. He was one of the earliest users and advocates of Linux and free software in India. Apart from contributions to the FOSS corpus with numerous packages released under the GNU GPL, he was also a regular member of the Free Software Award Committee, Director Emeritus of the Open Source Initiative and visiting professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi1

Here is a 2008 interview with Raj shot at his home (site of many ilug-d meetings over the years) by Robin "Roblimo" Miller for Linux.com.

Notice the terms "uncompromising honesty" and "generosity". I'm sure that if he stills access to the early minted bitcoins, they'll be used unselfishly.

[Bitinvestor]

update everything to point at http://www.hashcash.org now we
     have the domain courtesy of it's previous owner Ashish
     Gulhati <agul@cpan.org> (at no charge -- he declined my
     offer to pay for it and instead gave it to me!)

This quote from the OP misled me yesterday into thinking that Ashish Gulhati invented HashCash, but on closer inspection today I realized that it was Adam Back. Ashish Gulhati has the sort of background (C++, Cryptography, HashCash, Ayn Rand, Laissez Faire City, etc.) that one needs to be able to see the potential and to develop HashCash into Bitcoin. I think he did it.

The fact that Bitcoin is based on HashCash means that Adam Back is one of the spiritual fathers of Bitcoin, even if he isn't Satoshi Nakamoto.

[Este Nuno]

A good effort I think. But I highly doubt this guy is Satoshi. He appears to have a totally different personality.

No way in hell would someone like this sit on all those mined coins and not convert a single satoshi into fiat.

With his skills, I'm pretty sure he wanted for nothing more than to get by semi-comfortably, coupled with his parents, namely dad, being an economist and diplomat, of sorts. His values were probably different than how western society folks were raised.

Unless the guy totally matured at some point to become someone capable of doing what Satoshi did then maybe. But with a twitter handle like an4rky I highly doubt it.

I'm pretty sure his an4rky moniker reflects his discontent toward the US for her false flag operations and manipulating the monetary system around the world.

His mom is a dual citizen, working mainly in DC to lobby efforts for her noble cause back in India.

Ashish moved to Oz shortly after Satoshi stopped posting publicly.

Ashish has a beautiful command of the English language, capable of penning any continental style, I assume.

Look at the list of programs he's a master of, and the list of projects he built from scratch, then tell me that there's no way he, acting alone, couldn't have developed Bitcoin--from scratch. But he didn't necessarily have to build it from scratch, for he had the HashCash code(s) at his disposal.

Hell, he even came out and stated such in no uncertain terms that that was exactly what he was going to do.

That's all very reasonable. But I personally get more of an "academic" type vibe from reading Satoshi. Everything you've put out here is pretty compelling though.

The whole part about him being pro-FOSS and using Visual Studio to write his greatest creation seems pretty unlikely though.