Maybe satoshi is dead

[nienzer]

maybe SATOSHI is dead and BTC is at mercy of GITHUB developers, owned by blockstream


what you guys think ?

You look like an author in the yellow press. I do not understand why people create such assumptions? Satoshi is anonymous, no one knows who it is or what it is, the only thing what we have is Bitcoin and it still works. I think just stop the FUD

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[pawanjain]

Whether Satoshi is dead or not but bitcoin is not dead and will never be. Satoshi will remain immortal as well since a bitcoin has 100000000 Satoshis  
Too many Satoshis to live with right   Jokes apart, Satoshi has created something for the public which will be controlled and used by the public.
So he will always remain in the hearts of the people.

[Dart18]

That is still a "maybe" so there are chances that he is alive and government agencies is still in alert if ever he will come out.

But does it matter? He left a unique way for people to transact and also to have privacy in their financial wallets instead of just one option which is the bank.
I thank him already for that and I think many does too.
There have been a lot of changes in the financial industry and now they want to mimic bitcoin.
Isn't that already proof that it is a success?

[d3nz]

We really don't know on why satoshi is hiding in public and not making an update like here on forum. He should just make a public message so people will know on why he keep himself anonymous.

And there 's a rumor that satoshi didn' t even make any transaction on his wallet and has a over a million of BTC holdings. He should br waiting for the right time or too old to make a transaction since almost 9 years have passed yet no update or changes on his account here on bitcointalk.

[blckhawk]

It's quite irrelevant these days whether he is really dead or not. He has already made his legacy and is probably resting somewhere, or in heaven. Either way. the technology, and his mind-opening ideology made us realize at one point in time that separation in financial institutions and government is possible to transact and trade goods and services, without their surveillance. Although this is the main objective of Bitcoin, we could still say that true separation is not possible, as government would always try to regulate/control anything under their watch.

[vlad230]

I don't think he is dead although, if I were him, I would have cashed out a few of the BTC he's holding in Dec 2017 

[ilovealtcoins]

maybe SATOSHI is dead and BTC is at mercy of GITHUB developers, owned by blockstream


what you guys think ?

Don't think that's true.
To me, Shatoshi is not relative to bitcoin quite long time ago, since he public and said it's a decentralize currency.
Bitcoin is now controlled by the whole decentralized network. That's the real value, the only thing that made it stand out right the beginning. if he still in control, I don't think people would be happy to know, and no one's using it means the death.

[Dabs]

Yeah, he's most likely a single individual and also most likely dead, but we don't know for sure. The coins attributed to him (that he may have mined in the early days) have not moved.

[Twentyonepaylots]

I don't think he is dead although, if I were him, I would have cashed out a few of the BTC he's holding in Dec 2017  

Everyone wished they could have sold their bitcoins in 2017 and did not expect more of the price that went bad the next year. There is really no accurate information of who really Satoshi Nakamoto is, some says it's most likely Finney, some says it is Wei Dai in disguise. Regardless of who he is, where he is I think he will be proud of himself knowing what bitcoin has grown in the past years.

Yeah, he's most likely a single individual and also most likely dead, but we don't know for sure. The coins attributed to him (that he may have mined in the early days) have not moved.

Seeing those unmoved coins, seems like he never really run after the money but the financial revolution. I really wanna know him and thank personally If only he would do. Maybe he's dead because of this or not becase his intention was not about the money.

[btc_angela]

maybe SATOSHI is dead and BTC is at mercy of GITHUB developers, owned by blockstream


what you guys think ?

Maybe, or Satoshi just wanted to stay anonymous, live a normal life and let his creation live by itself on the hands of active bitcoin developers. The thing is we still enjoy bitcoin in the last 10 years and will continue to grow in the next decade. There are a lot of pretenders out there, but they can't proved any thing so lets just thank Satoshi for giving us his creation.

[Aikidoka]

Satoshi Nakamoto could be dead, that's a good opinion though, but something on my mind tell me that he's still alive but hiding and he's one of the whales. I'm not sure, but if he's really alive, it's gonna be good, cause at the end of thing he's the real creator of bitcoin and started the digital currencies.

[seoincorporation]

maybe SATOSHI is dead and BTC is at mercy of GITHUB developers, owned by blockstream


what you guys think ?

Maybe he is dead, we can't know that if we don't know who is satoshi, but I'm not agree about the Core at mercy of devs. I mean any one can fork the code and change it the way they want but that doesn't mean the users will take that new code. For code upgrades all the comunity must be agree with the new core and update their nodes to that code. That's how the updates are done.

[southafricadude]

maybe SATOSHI is dead and BTC is at mercy of GITHUB developers, owned by blockstream
what you guys think ?

Anyone can become a developer. Some developers do work for blockstream, many do not. Bitcoin is not at the 'mercy' of anyone

[livingfree]

A question that will never get a true answer because no one can validate if satoshi is truly dead and there's even no evidence on who he was in real life. Regardless of it, we're all thankful to him but,

this is an unending discussion and should be closed.

[HarmonyA]

maybe SATOSHI is dead and BTC is at mercy of GITHUB developers, owned by blockstream


what you guys think ?

"SATOSHI" shouldn't be the tool for the success of bitcoin. Moreover, I will suggest that he doesn't make himself known in order not to  create panic for bitcoin. Because he would grant interviews from notable journalists who would ask him crucial questions that will cause him to make comments that may derail from Bitcoin ideology,  thereby causing investors to pullback and fuel the analysis  of  conspiracy theorists.
SATOSHI if it's a real person and not a code name, should lay low while Bitcoin achieve its potential. Because even Vitalik Buterin that is known,  it's not empowering the scalability of Ethereum.

[kawetsriyanto]

maybe SATOSHI is dead

Sorry, but I think will be useless to discuss it. No one knows who Satoshi is, or even where he comes from. Then, how we can discuss "maybe Satoshi is dead". He can be still alive, and he can be dead already. This will be never ended!

Look at above! We only found that most of the replies look like to be speculation only or own theory.

BTC is at mercy of GITHUB developers

Do you have a clear explanation of this?

I suggest to lock this thread soon.

[diahsw]

it could happen, what is impossible if it involves death .. I'm sure you will die too, and we will all die .. !!

[meanwords]

He is like Schrodinger's cat, we never know if he's alive or dead until we find him which I think will never happen because of how he hid his identity to the world. I'm sure this Forum moderators have some significant clues that could lead to his identity but we shouldn't meddle as it must be the wish of Satoshi.  Bitcoin is an open-source and anyone can contribute to it.

[bering]

For sure everybody in this world eventually will be dead including satoshi and as the identity still nor leaked yet so we only just speculate where satoshi or who is satoshi but satoshi dead or alive it doesn't matter because his created which is called bitcoin will be alive forever and can help and solved people economy issue around the world

[Zeke_23]

He is like Schrodinger's cat, we never know if he's alive or dead until we find him which I think will never happen because of how he hid his identity to the world. I'm sure this Forum moderators have some significant clues that could lead to his identity but we shouldn't meddle as it must be the wish of Satoshi.  Bitcoin is an open-source and anyone can contribute to it.

Finding him will be impossible, we should consider the risk not only for him but to the whole crypto space if his identity and location will be revealed.
The forum admins might have some knowledge about it, but even if they know, I'm sure they won't say a thing about him since they wanted to ensure the anonymity of everyone especially the developer of BTC.