Was Hal Finney the real Satoshi?

[Truthraider]

Curious to see different theories on Hal Finney. I believe he may have sent the first Bitcoin transaction to himself. How may of you guys own multiple BTC addresses and do this every day? I know I do.

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[Astvile]

How may of you guys own multiple BTC addresses and do this every day? I know I do.

I'm pretty sure everyone does have multiple wallets addresses. And I'm sure everyone does that stuff everyday sending bitcoins from your dummy wallet to your main wallet or vice versa, it has something to do with anonymity at least for me tho, that's the reason why I send funds from my main to dummy.

[joinfree]

OMG! so can't you guys ask any question other than the identity of Satoshi? Is this going to bring any bread on your table? There is so much to learn about cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and the whole digital world which senior forum members are willing to help explain to you. But no, you guys choose to ask that one question which has been asked over a hundred times in here.

All questions regarding the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto are yawned at!

[btc_angela]

Read this: The Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.

Or,

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto ? Suspects, frauds and conspiracies on bitcointalk.

/enuff said.

[CryptoBry]

Curious to see different theories on Hal Finney. I believe he may have sent the first Bitcoin transaction to himself. How may of you guys own multiple BTC addresses and do this every day? I know I do.

Just because some people have the habit of sending Bitcoin to another address they also control is not enough to conclude that Hal Finney can be the real Satoshi Nakamoto. There are already many long discussions and interpolations on this matter and the overall verdict is that Hal Finney was a different person than Satoshi Nakamoto. In other words, there is still that big possibility that indeed Satoshi is still alive and just having the grand days of his life hiding somewhere. And this is in fact making the search for the real guy continue.

[alyssa85]

Haf Finney used to be a member of this forum before he died, and in 2013, he wrote a huge post called "Bitcoin and Me" giving the history of how he came to be involved.

I recommend everyone read it:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0

He wasn't satoshi, and he was ill a lot of the time Satoshi and Gavin Andreeson were working out the bugs in the bitcoin wallet.

[Baby Dragon]

OMG! so can't you guys ask any question other than the identity of Satoshi? Is this going to bring any bread on your table? There is so much to learn about cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and the whole digital world which senior forum members are willing to help explain to you. But no, you guys choose to ask that one question which has been asked over a hundred times in here.

All questions regarding the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto are yawned at!

Point well made, I understand your concern that its kinda annoying but they are still pretty curious regarding it. OP, it's better if you should do your own research because in that way you can understand things easily and learn a lot of things. Just do some exploration to answer your own questions because you can't always expect people to answer the same question for multiple times. Hal Finney isn't Satoshi, if that's him why would he choose to hide himself all those years? it means no one knows the person behind that pseudonym and we should just accept it.

[Shasha80]

It's true Hal Finney often sends bitcoin from one wallet to another, and we all do that too often. Because almost everyone has a multiple
bitcoin wallet. And that doesn't prove that Hal Finney is satoshi nakamoto. Are we all not bored with discussing the identity of satoshi nakamoto,
there have been many topics discussing this. It's better to let satoshi nakamoto remain anonymous, because satoshi also wants his privacy to be
maintained. We just respect the decision of Satoshi Nakamoto who does not want to reveal his true identity. We focus on his creation bitcoin.
Because then our time is more productive than thinking about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity.

[kryptqnick]

Haf Finney used to be a member of this forum before he died, and in 2013, he wrote a huge post called "Bitcoin and Me" giving the history of how he came to be involved.

I recommend everyone read it:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0

He wasn't satoshi, and he was ill a lot of the time Satoshi and Gavin Andreeson were working out the bugs in the bitcoin wallet.

Apart from this post, there is also the fact that Hal and Satoshi accounts on bitcointalk talked in threads sometimes. I remember one of Satoshi posts saying something like "thank you, Hal, it means a lot coming from you". Why would Satoshi thank himself like that? So the answer is definitely 'No'.
Till this day it's unclear who is the real Satoshi, but it doesn't mean that literally anyone could be that person. Some people can be crossed out. Hal is one of them.

[samuraijin]

Curious to see different theories on Hal Finney. I believe he may have sent the first Bitcoin transaction to himself. How may of you guys own multiple BTC addresses and do this every day? I know I do.

I'm not sure Hal finney thing is Satoshi, but why lately there are so many threads to reveal who satoshi is? even great people on the internet may not be able to find it, if you don't believe it, please start to find out I'm sure your time will be wasted

[BChydro]

Apart from this post, there is also the fact that Hal and Satoshi accounts on bitcointalk talked in threads sometimes. I remember one of Satoshi posts saying something like "thank you, Hal, it means a lot coming from you". Why would Satoshi thank himself like that? So the answer is definitely 'No'.

Multiple personal disorder is what the OP is claiming  , you have to remember the forum started when they were solely communicating to improve bitcoin and there was no incentives and they were attracted because of the white paper Satoshi released and Hal Finney was one of the cryptograpy experts that got attracted by this project and that is the history.

[Coin_trader]

Curious to see different theories on Hal Finney. I believe he may have sent the first Bitcoin transaction to himself. How may of you guys own multiple BTC addresses and do this every day? I know I do.

I'm not sure Hal finney thing is Satoshi, but why lately there are so many threads to reveal who satoshi is? even great people on the internet may not be able to find it, if you don't believe it, please start to find out I'm sure your time will be wasted

Becuase this is the most easy and convenient topic for newbie members that want to start a thread. They don't mind if the topic was discussed several times in the past. Just click report to the moderator button if you feel that this topic is redundant.

[seandiumx20]

Apart from this post, there is also the fact that Hal and Satoshi accounts on bitcointalk talked in threads sometimes. I remember one of Satoshi posts saying something like "thank you, Hal, it means a lot coming from you". Why would Satoshi thank himself like that? So the answer is definitely 'No'.

Multiple personal disorder is what the OP is claiming  , you have to remember the forum started when they were solely communicating to improve bitcoin and there was no incentives and they were attracted because of the white paper Satoshi released and Hal Finney was one of the cryptograpy experts that got attracted by this project and that is the history.

So it means that it's very impossible for satoshi to talk to himself right?
For those who're saying this, then you're making satoshi as a dumb person. Why would he talk to himself, we know that even there's no incentives from the start, many people tried to learn bitcoin already because of its blockchain so Hal Finney wasn't satoshi.

[BrewMaster]

I believe he may have sent the first Bitcoin transaction to himself.

specially because of this case, you can have solid proof that Hal Finney is NOT Satoshi Nakamoto. because it would be the weirdest thing to do at a time where there were others he could have send the bitcoin to if he were Satoshi and send it to himself!
when you want to show how the system works and get others involved you want to send coins to "OTHERS".

[sovie]

OMG! so can't you guys ask any question other than the identity of Satoshi? Is this going to bring any bread on your table? There is so much to learn about cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and the whole digital world which senior forum members are willing to help explain to you. But no, you guys choose to ask that one question which has been asked over a hundred times in here.

All questions regarding the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto are yawned at!

Such questions pop up every now and then here because we answer them everytime. I suggest there must a separate forum on bitcointalk.org where people can discuss only about who is satoshi nakamoto because curiosity on finding satoshi is far from being over.

[seandiumx20]

I believe he may have sent the first Bitcoin transaction to himself.

specially because of this case, you can have solid proof that Hal Finney is NOT Satoshi Nakamoto. because it would be the weirdest thing to do at a time where there were others he could have send the bitcoin to if he were Satoshi and send it to himself!
when you want to show how the system works and get others involved you want to send coins to "OTHERS".

True, you need to evaluate the system by the other people. How will you sure that it really works if you will just try it with yourself. That's not the right thing to do when it comes to evaluation. They should allow other people to test it to say it's working.  

[BrewMaster]

I believe he may have sent the first Bitcoin transaction to himself.

specially because of this case, you can have solid proof that Hal Finney is NOT Satoshi Nakamoto. because it would be the weirdest thing to do at a time where there were others he could have send the bitcoin to if he were Satoshi and send it to himself!
when you want to show how the system works and get others involved you want to send coins to "OTHERS".

True, you need to evaluate the system by the other people. How will you sure that it really works if you will just try it with yourself. That's not the right thing to do when it comes to evaluation. They should allow other people to test it to say it's working. 

it was more about the process being public between two person though. otherwise as a developer, you yourself always test your own system that you designed and created to see if it works fine before releasing it. but those tests are not something you release to public like this with another "person".

[Deathwing]

No. But he was a legendary person for sure. I find it unnecessary to dig into Satoshi's identity at this point. This topic has been discussed over and over again since the day one, just accept it and move on. Considering that no one still knows and no one knew then, that must mean that they just want to stay anonymous.

[YuginKadoya]

Here we go again, So many curious people about the identity of Satoshi which is I think doesn't need any kind of attention in my opinion, Because Satoshi Nakamoto doesn't want to get involved for sure and just want a peace of mind, And if Hal Finney really is Satoshi I think he would like to just leave him be and if the Bitcoin is anonymous so does the creator wants to be anonymous as well,

And in my opinion, if satoshi would show himself to the public there is no one will believe him as well, there are many people that have shown to the public proofs that they really are Satoshi but people would surely second thought about it, I think even if the real satoshi would show up it will just be the same.

[tungaqhd]

Curious to see different theories on Hal Finney. I believe he may have sent the first Bitcoin transaction to himself. How may of you guys own multiple BTC addresses and do this every day? I know I do.

I think you should read this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0
He said that he was the first person besides Satoshi to run bitcoin, he report bugs to satoshi.