Now that bitcoin is becoming a multibillion dollar business I think people deserve to know who Sathoshi Nakamoto is.
I created a small research paper outlining convincing evidence that Hal Finney is the creator of Bitcoin (Sathoshi Nakamoto).
The reason why Sathoshi disappeared in late 2009/early 2010 is because he was diagnosed with ALS, a very serious medical condition, which left him paralyzed and facing early death.
You are allowed to mirror the file. Questions can be sent to laurent.pcupdate**at**gmail.com.
Download the paper (pdf)Bye,
Laurent
Update:
Without images...for those interested.
The real creator of Bitcoin
The story of bitcoin starts with the publication of the original research paper in late 2008.
This is proof why Hal Finney is the real Satoshi Nakamoto.
When looking at the email adress we notice “@gmx.com”. Finney who is the very first person to post on the Sourceforge page of Bitcoin, yes you guessed it, is Hal Finney… who is using a @gmx.com address. And this is not nearly as common as gmail…
This could be coincidences so far. We expect the creator of Bitcoin to have a long history of interest in cryptography and currencies. Well Hall has been interested and working on it for years before 2008 as seen on his personal homepage
http://www.finney.org/~hal/ (1995-1999). Would Finney be capable of developing such software? Well for the matter of fact he created in 2004/2005 RPOW
http://www.finney.org/~hal/rpow/, which in essence describes the base of the bitcoin protocol and even implements it quite effectively. He even uses Tor (which later would be used for The Silk Road). In the presentation below he even discusses purposes as gambling and traffic in narcotics…
Also he describes the idea of the blockchain!
http://www.finney.org/~hal/rpow/slides/slide001.html He has modified the name ‘bit gold’ to ‘bitcoin’ as described above, findings of researcher Nick Szabo.
One more important thing is that “Sathoshi” disappeared in late 2009/early 2010. This is the exact moment when Mr Hal Finney was diagnosed with ALS, a serious condition which has left him paralyzed and eventually will lead to death.
