Friends of Satoshi

[worldtraveller321]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

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[Wintersoldier]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

Even if you have friends and to talk many, if you really want to hide your identity then you have the option to do that. Technology is so widely spread, and technology could actually make your identity even if you are a very well known person. If satoshi would talk to someone, he can do it without his identity being exposed. So OP, instead of focusing on topics related to figuring out who satoshi is, I rather suggest for you to focus on productivity and news concerning positive impacts to bitcoin. In that case we could contribute to the market when we help bitcoin to have market adoption.

[gabmen]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

First of all, what are you even gonna get out of knowing who Satoshi's friends are? Are you expecting to receive bitcoins? And anyone can say they know Satoshi or are friends with him. I'm amused that you seem to be really sold that you've met someone who knows the guy/gal/group. We're not even sure what Satoshi Nakamoto is lol. It's the same as believing people's speculation about the price of BTC.

[Darker45]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

Do you think that all those efforts to uncover Satoshi Nakamoto didn't consider that? I don't believe all of those discovery missions missed this very simple step. But who are those people who had the chance to correspond with Satoshi himself? Hadn't they all corresponded by way of the web? Was there anyone among them who really talked to Satoshi Nakamoto in person? I think there is no one.

[hatshepsut93]

Because finding a friend of an unknown person is just as hard as finding the person themselves, if not harder. People who knew Satoshi in real life or on the Internet could easily don't know him as Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin. Perhaps there's not a single person in this world who knows Satoshi's identity - if Satoshi was strongly determined in keeping it that way.

[CryptoBry]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be. No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons. There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

Running after the people who might have known Satoshi Nakamoto on a personal and even professional level may not be a good idea, in the first place. I am sure these "friends" are respecting the desire of the man to remain very private and not to surface anytime soon. As a man of mystery, it would really be hard to peel the layers covering the whereabouts of Satoshi and I think it is about time that we stop there. In case he can still be alive and assuming that he is a real person, maybe at the right time years from now our guy will just voluntarily show up. There is no need to spend hours and hours peering into many possibilities about his eventual absence on the scene.

[pooya87]

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

if you mean in real life then they either don't know the person they were friends with was Satoshi or are respecting his privacy and will never reveal anything publicly.
if you mean online and the communications that took place between Satoshi and some people, then it was either in public (original bitcoin forum, mailing list,...) or through Emails. in both cases he still could save his privacy so these people most probably don't have any additional information compared to the rest of us and even if they do, they are similarly respecting his privacy and not revealing anything to public.

[DreamStage]

That is called stalking and you can even be arrested for such things for your info

Anyway of course his friends got information on denying who the real Satoshi is and will not give up on their friend just like that...
If they love Satoshis i am sure even if you ask this to them they will deny it.

And you will also need more information for getting into such places (his friends).

[electronicash]

why is finding him so important for someone?

satoshi doesnt wanna be found and if really you will find him, proving its him is not possible because its just him that can only do that. you don't have a choice but to give up the mission to find him. he will just deny it because for all he care, he even leave millions of btc.

you will likely find more scammers if you stalk them than satoshi. people will find more reason to give you merits.

[YOSHIE]

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

No one knows your identity, if you hide your identity to others, even if you speak in the media, television, magazines and in your own life.

Like Satoshi, his real name is unknown. Only Satoshi's name is known, if in government Satoshi's name is on the list of population records in his country, it is certain that Satoshi was discovered by the local government, facts.

Example:
Interpol is a lot that we do not know when he disguised himself as a member of Interpol, entered the community.
It is not, not strange to me, if Satoshi was not found and also about his real identity.

I repeat, It is not strange if Satoshi is not found and his identity.
because in the register of civil records in his country, satoshi is not registered as a citizen, of course the real name is registered.

[Baby Dragon]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

If that's what you think then why don't you conduct your own research to find out the person behind that pseudonym? then tell us what you have find out after researching so we can have an idea about his real identity. If you are curious about Satoshi then explore things on your own, also does it really matter? I mean why don't you guys accept the fact that he doesn't want peoples attention. It's much better if we just respect his decision because I know there is a powerful reason behind it.

[pakhitheboss]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

Why do you want to search Satoshi in my first question?
What will you do after finding out who is Satoshi?

If some thought of living a life of anonymity after creating a brilliant product, there may be several reason for him to stay like this.
Leave him alone and concentrate more in creating awareness of Bitcoin.

[hello_good_sir]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

It's fairly well known that Satoshi is a smart fella, so it would be fair to assume that he didn't overly talk to people and reveal to them that he was satoshi, and his life was weird in a way it was like he lead 2 of them.

A regular real life, similar to ours. I would assume he would only tell his family and closest friends about his online ID, and it's going to be impossible to track that past.

And an online life, where he actually never linked to any real life features. All of his work is about BTC and technology, and he never talks about his real life on the forum, or anywhere else.

[ray_saeed]

Why people want to find who is Satoshi? is much better for us and him to dont know that

[adaseb]

Well he did have friends like Hal Finney however most likely it was nothing more than a cyber friendship. Back then most people just communicated by PM or emails. These days people might communicate by video or audio and I am pretty sure that Satoshi never even had a video/audio conversation with Hal, it was all by PM, posts or emails.

He probably stated from the beginning that he wants his identity to be kept anonymous and most of them respected that. Even if he got close to someone there is a chance of being a falling out and his identity might be exposed.

Very strange that in the first few threads of the Bitcoin Discussion section they are all based on Satoshi. Usually this happens when a bull market has started and not during a sideways or bear market we are currently having.

[kro55]

In my view if satoshi were a group of people then some of then may have popped by now, since not all will prefer to remain anonymous. A decade is over n satoshi still not shown up. It is the biggest mystery of 21st century.

[abel1337]

That is called stalking and you can even be arrested for such things for your info

Anyway of course his friends got information on denying who the real Satoshi is and will not give up on their friend just like that...
If they love Satoshis i am sure even if you ask this to them they will deny it.

And you will also need more information for getting into such places (his friends).

I think It's not considered as stalking if you are finding the friends of satoshi, I can consider it as discovery, First of all, satoshi's identity is still unknown and you need a further investigation about the primary clue which is satoshi nakamoto.

There are some other factors in finding the friends of satoshi like finding one of the biggest bitcoin holders somehow it can give some clues on finding satoshi's friend.

There are still chances that you can track down who is satoshi nakamoto or the whole group which hide on the name of satoshi nakamoto.

[airdnasxela]

Even if Satoshi have talked to you through online, of course he wouldn't reveal himself. He want to be anonymous. As for her personal friends or family, if they know who the real Satoshi, they won't tell it of course. That's why they are labelled as 'friends' because he can trust them. Those whom only he trust must've known his real identity while others probably don't know. You know how super hero works? Only few know about it.

[bitcampaign]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

too many threads about looking for who is satoshi, so like this if you know who satoshi friends what you want to do, find out where satoshi's house and want to rob it, you finally caught it wrong, it's based not on people's thinking maybe just your thoughts alone, maybe his friends in this forum you can communicate with them where satoshi

[TotallyNotaLiar]

No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

Fuck you. Why are you trying to cause others pain?

[virasog]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

When you do not know who is satoshi, how can you find friends for him ? 
This is how it works. First you know a person and then you can figure out whom his/her friends are. You cannot find the friends of a person which is not known of who is he.

[Amel]

How can you find a satoshi friend if the satoshinya is not known, this is ridiculous. Unless Satoshi's friend divulges the secret where Satoshi is, we don't even know where to start looking for Satoshi's friends, Satoshi's group works in guerrilla and is impossible to find.

[AicecreaME]

Simple Logic for this, did you know that if you can't find Satoshi, you can't also find his friends, they are too lowkey to hide their real identities to the public for some reasons, you can't find someone that is good enough to build something like bitcoin, don't expect that his friends are always walking in public bragging that they are friends of Satoshi Nakamoto.

[ChrisPop]

Why don't we just take the gift and concentrate our efforts on implementing the revolutionary technology into the world? I'm sure that Satoshi's intentions were to contribute to the evolution of the world and free ourselves from the centralization and overall give us more freedom and transparency with how our money is being spent(when paying taxes for example, eliminating corruption, etc.). Why waste your time searching for the author while you can do better things with the actual product is my question...

[Asmonist]

I think we'll just wait if he wants to be known. I believe his friends might as well hide him if that's what he wants. I think let's just respect his privacy. Anyway, as long as we can do business and earn bitcoin and other crypto now that's all that matters. Many may claim that they are friends but we cannot confirm if its legit.

[YuginKadoya]

I think we'll just wait if he wants to be known. I believe his friends might as well hide him if that's what he wants. I think let's just respect his privacy. Anyway, as long as we can do business and earn bitcoin and other crypto now that's all that matters. Many may claim that they are friends but we cannot confirm if its legit.

I think that is the important thing to do here, Let's just focus on with earning and gaining more Bitcoin than with things that will not make the price of Bitcoin higher, I guess even though there are people that would say they are really close with Satoshi Nakamoto there is no proof regarding this matter, we don't know who's Satoshi is then the friends identity would surely be anonymous as well,

So there is no point in searching for them if they are not the legit friends of Satoshi If the owner would be so hard to have a known Identity why would we bother to locate his friends that there is no proof that they also knew Satoshi really is.

[Beparanf]

I think we'll just wait if he wants to be known. I believe his friends might as well hide him if that's what he wants. I think let's just respect his privacy. Anyway, as long as we can do business and earn bitcoin and other crypto now that's all that matters. Many may claim that they are friends but we cannot confirm if its legit.

I think that is the important thing to do here, Let's just focus on with earning and gaining more Bitcoin than with things that will not make the price of Bitcoin higher, I guess even though there are people that would say they are really close with Satoshi Nakamoto there is no proof regarding this matter, we don't know who's Satoshi is then the friends identity would surely be anonymous as well,

So there is no point in searching for them if they are not the legit friends of Satoshi If the owner would be so hard to have a known Identity why would we bother to locate his friends that there is no proof that they also knew Satoshi really is.

In today's world that fake news invented, edited details and self proclaim friends of friends it's better to not talk about like who's the real Satoshi is. As they need their privacy they needed. Let's just focus on researching projects that will influence us to grow our portfolio or to improve our skills in trading than being a stalker of Satoshi or friends details.

[White Christmas]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

First of all we are not sure if Satoshi or group of Satoshi tells to their friends that they are the person behinds bitcoin of he/she is the person behind the invention or developing of bitcoin. Even though satoshi tells to their friends that they are the one behind bitcoin, I don't know if their friends will tell to other people those information especially if that information is very sensitive or secret in which no one should know about the existence of them and etc. It is a matter of trust on hiding secrets by their friends so that twe don't know also who are the friends of  Satoshi.

[Hamphser]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

Can you name at least one person who personally talked to Satoshi? As far as i know he never talk to someone in person (correct me if i'm wrong) his only communication with them is through chat and this forum when releasing the bitcoin white paper. Satoshi may not be a single person, it might be a group or team.

[BeManga]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

even if they talk to satoshi before it is nearly impossible that satoshi will release his own information

[d3nz]

What is your purpose? And finding satoshi will be hard since he's hiding on purpose and he cannot be trace easily and even thou we found him, it will not change anything and depending on what government will do to him.

And he already change everything in the world and already use he's knowledge and codes to create another cryptocurrency.

[kryptqnick]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

Well, some of the early adopters have already passed away, unfortunately. Others might have been pretty close with Satoshi, but online kind of close, so they might not know this person's true identity. Then there can be a category of people who know but for various reasons don't even say that they know. And then there are people (or at least one person, John McAffee) who says that he knows who Satoshi is but will not reveal Satoshi's identity. Looking for people who knew Satoshi one way or another is not hard. But all those people we'd find would be those who knew this person online. Moreover, making them give up such a name would not be easy.

[robelneo]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

Satoshi Nakamoto planned all of this since the beginning, he makes sure he leaves no online footprint and no one among his friends knows what he is doing, so if finding Nakamoto is hard it will be extremely hard to find his friends because you have nowhere to start.
If there's a master of hiding an identity it should be Nakamoto.

[imstillthebest]

genius  . and why not  ? if you didnt said that op i think no one will start to do that  .  i think after people read this post , they are now start thier hunt again to uncover the secrets of satoshi nakamoto   .

 friends of sato  ? hmmm first think that comes to my mind is the older members of this forum and also the founder of this forum which was theymos because i believe that he have talked by satoshi a long time ago however i dont see theymos give any words regarding on the status of sato now  .

[ragavancoin]

Why will Satoshi Nakomoto friends reveal his identity  they will never do that. Even though you find Satoshi friends they won't reveal. First of all why do you worry about Satoshi identity?  There will be some reason behind
being hidden his identity.

Better focus on plans you have for future.

[Yatsan]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

Can you name at least one person who personally talked to Satoshi? As far as i know he never talk to someone in person (correct me if i'm wrong) his only communication with them is through chat and this forum when releasing the bitcoin white paper. Satoshi may not be a single person, it might be a group or team.

Wei dai himself claimed that Satoshi Nakamoto contacted him for his B-money (distributed electronic cash system) proposal which was referenced by Satoshi Nakamoto. There are rumors that Wei Dai is Satoshi Nakamoto, he could've just made these things up,  but there are still holes to fill in. If I were Satoshi I will really try my best not to exploit my identity or atleast my closest and trustworthy friends knows about me. But there are still no solid proof who he really is, Hal finney might be the closest to Satoshi since he received the first bitcoin ever or maybe he is Satoshi. One thing is confirmed, bitcoin started the revolutionary system.

[omone1]

If an invention is going to shake the world and force the government to accept the reality of not having to keep controlling people finance, then the investor will be very secretive in his identity and will avoid unnecessary publication of his identity. Satoshi has no known friends everything about him is just anonymous and I love it that way.

[Oceat]

If an invention is going to shake the world and force the government to accept the reality of not having to keep controlling people finance, then the investor will be very secretive in his identity and will avoid unnecessary publication of his identity. Satoshi has no known friends everything about him is just anonymous and I love it that way.

Satoshi is definitely covering all of his tracks before anyone could trace him and also no one knows if Satoshi is a single person or a name of the group. But they/he is very wise to cover all his tracks without giving any personal details nor meeting someone face to face or talking someone through the webcam.

I think Satoshi had some background of computer security to stay anonymous all the time. Even if we managed to talk to people who helped Satoshi to build Bitcoin I think their answers were still the same as we have, because they don't really meet Satoshi in person.

[jekainvestor]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

I even do not know what to comment))))))))))) Really it was very very funny to read this))))))) It looks like people really believe in the fact that someday we may be able to see a real Satoshi))))))) Like they say the hope dies last)))))) for the last period of time soo many topics appeared about the Satoshi, and that it will happen one day that he will appear online again, or why he keeps silent and so on)))) but the idea to find Satoshi`s friends sounds even more funny)))))))) of course lots of fake friends will appear in order to get the high popularity or to use it like the PR for themselves)))))))))

[the rise]

if someone claims it will also be useless because it will not be trusted. People who are close to Satoshi, or even those who belong to the same pseudonym network, will protect their identity as well as possible because it may already be a mutual agreement. Or they could appear with their own coins and make it more central to obscure the alleged relationship with satoshi

[MFahad]

How can you find a satoshi friend if the satoshinya is not known, this is ridiculous. Unless Satoshi's friend divulges the secret where Satoshi is, we don't even know where to start looking for Satoshi's friends, Satoshi's group works in guerrilla and is impossible to find.

First the people were looking to find the satoshi but they failed. Now they are trying to find satoshi friends and perhaps one day they might start looking for his family, this is just insane. Unless satoshi is revealed, nothing can be found more about him.

[samcrypto]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

So who are those friends? They are also anonymous and actually anyone can say that they are friends with Satoshi but they will never expose the truth. Well, giving so much time to think who is Satoshi is really stressing and its better to focus on bitcoin. Let’s accept the fact that Satoshi will never reveal himself, it will be a forever mystery.

[sashapan]

How can we find out real friends of a person whom we do not know, maybe Satoshi lives on Mars.  I think that after 100, 200 years the world will know who Satoshi Nakamoto was, probably his descendants will want to tell everyone about the brilliant grandfather)

[ntsdm1]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

But who did he talk to is already publicly available.These people can't say anything more than they already know.In this whole story I’m interested in 1 fact - IP addresses are available to the forum administrator. Is it really impossible to find out by IP at least the country from which visited the Satoshi forum.

[joinfree]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

For what reason reason mate and where do you think all this search would lead you? Would this bring any solution about bitcion's technology? The obvious answer is no. i am really getting tired of all these searches about Satoshi, can't we focus this energy else on something relevant that can help in improvement of bitcoin and the blockchain technology as a whole.

[sashapan]

Satoshi's Friends? I don't know anyone. Maybe I will become it?

Probably we are all a little friends of Satoshi.  Hal can be called Satoshi's online friend https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.msg1643833#msg1643833

[Fappanu]

Finding Satoshi Nakamoto's friends is even harder than finding who the real Satoshi Nakamoto is.

Because we don't have the information or the first step to know who they are. And I think even if they were friends with satoshi they would have just recognized this as a computer genius and well versed in his field but his creations would not have been known to anyone.

[BitcoinMoses]

Of Course there are many people in the bitcoin Talk Forum who know the real Satoshi but they cannot open their mouth to tell the truth for very classified reason. Satoshi has a twin brother who will tell the truth and reveal the true identity of Satoshi. Finding the real Satoshi is not very easy as he is visible but unseen. He is out there in the cyber space. Find him. Search Satoshi Nakamoto and and you will find many faketoshis. Therefore, ye shall know that Satoshi has already revealed his true identity so do research diligently and find him. He is not any one of those Faketoshis.

[xvids]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

How could we even find Satoshi's friend if we don't even know who is behind that name?
Satoshi is so catious and only use the internet to connect with the people who helps him out to create Bitcoin or show it to the world.
I think even his/her real life friends doesn't know that he/she is the creator of Bitcoin.

[boris2470]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

Do you think its simple? First, we can only guess who knows about Satoshi. Secondly, do you think these people will tell a secret? The secret is the safety of millions of people and billions of dollars in the Bitcoin equivalent, do you really think someone wants to lose this?

[milewilda]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

The thing here is that, does everybody know on whose those satoshis friends? You cant point out the true identity of satoshi then closest friend would be impossible to know.
Even his family might not able to know on what his accomplishments but pretty sure there would be a person do knows its true identity and just burying up the secret until to his grave.lol
We can think off on possibilities but its really hard to make such step or on where to start.

[todiboa]

Because finding a friend of an unknown person is just as hard as finding the person themselves, if not harder. People who knew Satoshi in real life or on the Internet could easily don't know him as Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin. Perhaps there's not a single person in this world who knows Satoshi's identity - if Satoshi was strongly determined in keeping it that way.

I still have the opinion that Satoshi Nakamoto is a group of people, so it probably has friends. We should look for clues in the origins of Bitcoin, found people which were involved in Bitcoin immediately after creating the coin, but I like your idea that people could know Satoshi under a different name or pseudonym

[alani123]

Satoshi did talk to many people but we never know to what extent he held private conversations. His posts on mailing lists an this forum consisted of discussions that were open to the public. He might have had interactions in private but we'll never know for sure because: A) people satoshi might have talked with might not be interested in sharing B) there's no way to prove your private conversations and any revelation would do more harm than good, and might not lead to any info anyway.

[diahsw]

for what needs to get there, the important thing for bitcoin hunters is to get as much bitcoin as possible ... we can find out who satoshi is, but there is no need to spend time just to find out who he is .. !!

[scopatumana]

Lol...buh I believe many of the people who were close to Satoshi or the development team of Bitcoin have been known as well as the very early adopters. And the question is, who said the true friends of satoshi are going to give him up just like that? Don't also forget that we're talking about the internet, and it could be many of the early friends of Satoshi in the digital realm only knew his "Internet name" and not his actual personality.

[DarkDays]

Plenty of people have searched for who Satoshi knew, including the other original users of the Bitcoin protocol. There has been a lot of progress made in this department.

However, several of the first layer users are now dead, which really limits how much information we can extract about their relationship with Satoshi.

Realistically, we're not going to get any closer now ten years on, unless there's somehow an internal leak. So we might as well just stop asking the question of who he is. Just let it be.

[EdvinZ]

I don't understand at all, why would you want to know who Satoshi Nakamoto is? Will you be happier knowing who he is? Will your well-being improve or will there be any other positive changes in your life? Relax people. Satoshi Nakamoto gave you a unique technology, but chose to remain anonymous, please respect his decision.

[noormcs5]

if someone claims it will also be useless because it will not be trusted. People who are close to Satoshi, or even those who belong to the same pseudonym network, will protect their identity as well as possible because it may already be a mutual agreement. Or they could appear with their own coins and make it more central to obscure the alleged relationship with satoshi

If someone claim to be satoshi, even he is not trusted then how can the friends of satoshi be trusted as his real friends. This is a just another troll box which has no definite result in the end.
Even if you do the impossible and find the friends of satoshi, what will be our gain or benefit for all this hassle ?

[321Bitcoin]

A small amount sent by someone making a statement:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/15h4F5yxeJHDgDJR5dnJwsNbETpktMnQzm

"Nick Szabo is Satoshi Nakamoto"

almightyruler, you have been here since 2011, do you know him?

[southafricadude]

The think of the mystery is everyone just keeps focusing on Satoshi and who that might be.
No one is really searching for people who may have known that person or persons.

There are several people out there. Who do know who Satoshi is and did talk to him at least. Why are we not focusing on those people? the friends?

I think Satoshi's operational security was good enough that nobody knows who he is.
Anyone who says they know who satoshi is, is probably lying or just taking a wild guess like everyone else.