Should the Creator of Bitcoin come forward?

[HeliKopterBen]

He is probably among us.

[Shallow]

No! It's far better a secret  

[manfred]

Every creator of any alternative coin is know and nothing terrible has or will happen to them.
Anyway Satoshi is know.

[Ford]

idols will never live up to everyone's expectations and nor should people idols others.
I'm sure he will read posts here, and is clearly choosing not to reply....

personally im tired of seeing people trying to guess who "he" is. It is the same as the press hounding people that dont want to be hounded....

I think to stop this "hounding" ALL members of this forum (and anywhere else) should claim to be Satoshi.  This way it will help hide his ID by no one knowing who is telling the truth, even if Satoshi himself also claims to be him....

I will start of by : I am Satoshi...... and as are we all....

Best Regards
Satoshi (or Ford)

[psicloner]

Who knows? Maybe he knew this all along and he knew that disappearing was a requirement to it's success.

Maybe Satoshi read "The Grand Inquisitor" from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Brothers Karamazov," in which the lesson is... there are three things man bows to: authority, mystery, and magic. In the context of Satoshi, the paper indicates this individual is well versed in cryptography and the maths (authority), they are unknown (mystery), and bitcoins can be arguably said to be mined from nothing (magic). Or, otherwise put, part of the allure to bitcoin is the legend at its foundation.

[redwraith]

I'm with adamstgBit - it really doesn't matter who he is.

If anything - it'll lead to instability. Right now we've no idea who he is. He's almost godlike (not necessarily a good thing).

If we discover he's just a human being who eats, defecates, parties, cries, farts and is altogether human - we might just find a way to discredit Bitcoin  because we disagree with him being a Mormon or that he enjoys deer hunting, etc.

Better we leave things as they are, that way Bitcoin stands on it's own merits.

Who knows? Maybe he knew this all along and he knew that disappearing was a requirement to it's success.

Spoken like a true creator of religion!! Well done!

[Nemesis]

I was thinking the other day how different Bitcoin would be today if Satoshi or whoever created Bitcoin came forward and took credit. If there were one person to answer questions and explain the benefits of using Bitcoin it might've caught on quicker.

On the other hand, I was also thinking about the possibility that the true creator of Bitcoin is dead or murdered. If Satoshi actually chose to remain anonymous then it would make it that much easier for him to be killed without anyone knowing. If he were famous then his every move would be watched.

Or what if it was not a single person that started Bitcoin, but a group of individuals with their own secret motives. Why would they chose to remain anonymous and for what purpose?

Regardless, it is strange that the public does not know who is behind the fastest growing digital currency in the world. What do you think?

Can you explain to me why? Im sorry i dont know how to say it nicely but i doubt you can.... because its the dumbest thing i've heard.

[Zangelbert Bingledack]

Even if Satoshi turned out to be this awesome person who would interview perfectly, all that has to happen is for him to be caught with something unmentionable (planted or real) or framed for some other unmentionable crime and then Bitcoin would be endlessly dragged through the mud. It'd be a terrible move for him personally and for Bitcoin in general.

[phillipsjk]

Staying anonymous is probably more foresight than I would have had. Then, I didn't invent a way to have money without central governments either.

[waltermot321]

Every creator of any alternative coin is know and nothing terrible has or will happen to them.
Anyway Satoshi is know.

Bad idea, who knows if the government wanna catch him and ask him to take his whole bitcoin down...

[Inedible]

I'm with adamstgBit - it really doesn't matter who he is.

If anything - it'll lead to instability. Right now we've no idea who he is. He's almost godlike (not necessarily a good thing).

If we discover he's just a human being who eats, defecates, parties, cries, farts and is altogether human - we might just find a way to discredit Bitcoin  because we disagree with him being a Mormon or that he enjoys deer hunting, etc.

Better we leave things as they are, that way Bitcoin stands on it's own merits.

Who knows? Maybe he knew this all along and he knew that disappearing was a requirement to it's success.

Spoken like a true creator of religion!! Well done!

Religion - it's where the real money is.

[maz]

It was the Satoshi mystery which intrigued me to get into bitcoin, and now it's the last thing on my mind as far as bitcoin is concerned. It should stay this way.

[Bicknellski]

He is probably among us.

She is probably among us.

[inform]

 This is Satoshi:



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Starved_girl.jpg/394px-Starved_girl.jpg


We are all Satoshi

i rusia but intelectual intuition i understand and realy suport you my brother same here in rusia coruptions,drugs,wars,crime,prostitutions,etc...
this situation must be true
all poor guys try get money earnings difirents methods in web internet space

[illpoet]

the world just isn't ready for a talking al paca that can shoot lasers out of his eyes.  Satoshi remains anonymous for our own good.

[spooderman]

We are behind the fastest growing digital currency in the world.

It doesn't matter who Satoshi is.

+ graham's number

[BitTrade]

As much as we all would like to know the creator(s) of Bitcoin, it would almost certainly be burdensome to Bitcoin's future.  If Satoshi wasn't anonymous, it's very likely Bitcoin would have never gained as much traction as we have so far, and arguaby, would likely dampen future traction.  

[freequant]

Satoshi's authority was a flaw in the Bitcoin protocol, and whoever could control him would likely be able to inluence Bitcoin's evolution and eventually disrupt the network.
For his own security and that of the network, Satoshi had to disappear and destroy the only thing that could assert his identity: the private key that he used to generate the genesis block and all the private keys of the coins he mined.

[darkmule]

Satoshi should do what his invention has helped so many to do:  whatever the hell he feels like.

[allthingsluxury]

At this point no one is going to believe the person who claims to be Satoshi. There is no need for this person to come forward regardless. Bitcoin is in the communities hands.