Do you think it matters who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was?

[uszaty43]

If we know who Satoshi Nakamoto is, all the things from bitcoin would be discovered, but it wouldn't change anything since this guy is the founder of all this project, but there are no ways to proove it.
anyway, i would really love to talk to this guy, he is probably very clever and knows a lot of things about everything, i would really enjoy talking to him, that would be like a travesy.
but in fact, satoshi nakamoto's real identity would not make any change on the price if it is discovered.

[FasTroy]

Since now, I am the only one who voted by "Maybe", because really i don't know that is matter to know satoshi nakamoto or no. I think bitcoin will be not affected if we found satoshi nakamoto, maybe it will be more good if we can't found it. Really i don't know. Now, bitcoin is powerful and it have a very good potential so maybe i think it's not matter the identity of satoshi.

[plr]

Being a decenralized and open sourced I don't think it will matter even if people or authorities find out who and where he is right now, Bitcoin is much more secured right now and steadily growing at a past phase

[jseverson]

Not at all. Bitcoin has been running for a while without him, and I don't think even his identity reveal can truly affect us. The point of decentralization is for Bitcoin to not need a central figure, and while Satoshi did create Bitcoins, I would not say he has ever had control over it.

Don't get me wrong, Satoshi would be very influential owing to his status as the founder. He might not have control, but I'm guessing a lot of people will take his words about Bitcoin and its future very seriously. He can cause certain things to happen, especially with his rumored stash of 1m Bitcoins, but his identity shouldn't matter in the big picture.

[Pearls Before Swine]

This is going to turn into a huge spam thread, I can tell, but it's actually a very good
question.  And I don't think it matters in the least who thought up bitcoin.  In fact,
I firmly believe that it wasn't one person and it wasn't someone named Satoshi Nakamoto.
I think it was a group of people working for either banks or government, and there's a
very good reason why that genesis block hasn't moved yet.  I'm not sure what the
reason is, but it's a reason some very powerful interests know, that's for sure (in my
mind).

Do you guys honestly believe that someone would just sit on that much money and
not do anything with it for years?  Come on.  That's a backup fund for a financial
disaster of epic proportions, and it'll likely be caused by this constant money printing
our government(s) are doing.  You'll see.

[pooya87]

My personal take on it is that Bitcoin may actually be harmed if the authorities catch up with Satoshi Nakamoto. I think we all saw the crap that Dorian Nakamoto had to go through when he got fingered as the creator of Bitcoin. They could conceivably wring all sorts of false "confessions" out of him if they are determined enough to discredit Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto's reasoning behind creating Bitcoin.

i disagree.
what you said could have been true back in many years ago when people weren't much familiar with bitcoin and it was early days of it. by then Satoshi was bitcoin so anything wrong with Satoshi could reflect on bitcoin too. but now there is a much bigger  developers team and people realized that bitcoin is not centralized to one person or even a group of people to be "harmed" if something goes wrong with them.

[wae57]

I personally don't really mind who he is. At least i have another source of income regardless.

[verifyas]

his identity did not matter so far. I mean bitcoin is on the rise and blockchain framework is spreading fast. However it might be dangerous not knowing him; imagine the scenario where bitcoin value rockets in the future and suddenly Satoshi decides to dump all of his coins (which are alot) in the market; guess what will happen then.

I think  that would be the only reason that would make it important to know his identity.