Why do people care who Satoshi is/was?

[LogitechMouse]

Curiosity and nothing more.

I'm not curious of who Satoshi is TBH and I don't care if Satoshi is still alive or dead or anything that is related to him. Its enough for me that Satoshi created a currency that might change the financial industry as a whole . Its good that Satoshi really hid his/her/their identity and lets respect it if Satoshi want it that way.

We've seen many people claiming that they are Satoshi but nobody believed into them and it came to the point where people doesn't believe anymore in whoever will claim that they are Satoshi. It also came to the point where nobody is interested in knowing Satoshi anymore.

[acroman08]

you can't really blame them or call them out for being too curious. at one point when I was just found out about bitcoin and learning I did become curious about who satoshi was and search around the internet who satoshi was or if someone found out who was. it's just that there are people who became obsessed with the mystery of his Identity. sometimes I even think that these people looking for Satoshi isn't even really interested in his Identity but was just interested in solving the mystery of the creator of bitcoin.

[davis196]

Why do people care who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was? It's like wondering the name of the person that created the wheel. Sure, I suppose I would be curious about the name of the inventor of the wheel, if nothing else to raise a beer to them from time to time, but ultimately the wheel is the important part of the story.

Because Satoshi Nakamoto is a mystery and it's natural for the people to be curious.
I don't care who Satoshi is,but it would be nice if we knew at least something about the creator of Bitcoin.
The lack of information leaves room for many conspiracy theories,like the one that Bitcoin was created by a bunch of CIA programmers,who are hiding behind the name Satoshi Nakamoto,so BTC is basically a CIA financial experiment.Would you believe such conspiracy theory?

[lovesmayfamilis]

I think this is a normal interest. People are curious. We've always been attracted to mystery. The lack of information about the creator of bitcoin raises a lot of questions for many. And from here different assumptions follow. Someone wants to play it safe, as there is information that Satoshi may not be such a hero as he is portrayed. And he may have leverage that is still unknown. Conspiracy theories write that Bitcoin can serve to siphon money from people. Only Satoshi himself can shed light on all his plans, and refute all bad rumors.

[Janation]

Why do people care who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was? It's like wondering the name of the person that created the wheel. Sure, I suppose I would be curious about the name of the inventor of the wheel, if nothing else to raise a beer to them from time to time, but ultimately the wheel is the important part of the story.

Because it is Satoshi Nakamoto?

For sure, there are a lot of people that are curious who Satoshi Nakamoto is but there are those like that that don't care. I mean, yeah there are those movies that just interest you without you knowing who the director is. Each of us has a different point of view on this but since Satoshi is a mystery online, that makes people more curious.

[Questat]

Why do people care who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was? It's like wondering the name of the person that created the wheel. Sure, I suppose I would be curious about the name of the inventor of the wheel, if nothing else to raise a beer to them from time to time, but ultimately the wheel is the important part of the story.

Maybe I am and it is just because I would like to send regards for him and to say thank you for this wonderful creation? I don't think it is a big deal because it possible that the others will do the same.

But for now, it is hopeless. He can't help us either. We can't ask him anymore in order to make our own Bitcoin.
Anyways, I think the time has come that we have to forget about him. What we gonna do now is to enjoy his creation.

[markleal]

Hi there Joe_Bauers, I have 3 reasons why people are looking for Satoshi
First; in legal matters, any creator has the rights in their invention, thus there will be a huge lawsuit that could be triggered when Satoshi will be grabbed by a Single Corp.
Second; Business, there will be a lot of company that will use Satoshi to leverage their business by using him as a new member, a founder, or a partner
Lastly; Control, Satoshi holds 1.1 million bitcoin that is greater than any bitcoin whale, thus he could manipulate market price with such a huge amount of possession.

[BlackHatCoiner]

Why do people care who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was?

(I'll refer Satoshi as a "he" even if it may not be correct, to avoid adding more subject pronouns)

To me, the answer is simple:  They are afraid of his wealth. If he actually mined around 1 million bitcoins, then he owns 1/21 of all coins. Whether he still has access to them or not, it'd bring a lot of fear and panic if suddenly, there were one million additional bitcoins for sale.

But, there are other people that admire him for his work, because he freed them. That man is the cause of the term "Blockchain", an innovative technology. It's pretty weird that no one will ever know who is the person who started it. But not just for the blockchain, he didn't just have the idea of a decentralized currency. He spent two years of his life, trying to implement the peer-to-peer timestamp network he was visioning combined with the proof of work. It was a work of art at its first release.

I wonder what was Satoshi's expression when he realized that it is possible to achieve it with the proof of work.

[aysg76]

Why do people care who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was? It's like wondering the name of the person that created the wheel. Sure, I suppose I would be curious about the name of the inventor of the wheel, if nothing else to raise a beer to them from time to time, but ultimately the wheel is the important part of the story.

There are some reasons for which people are curious to know the real Indentity of Sathoshi Nakamoto the creator behind Bitcoin.

1) With growing adoption and popularity among the masses everyone is curious to know who was the brilliant minded programmer who has created Sathoshi as everyone like to solves the mysteries of world.

2)His pseudonym Indentity and leaving Bitcoin after 2011 has created more interest in people to find his Indentity

3)His Bitcoin holdings which are more than 1 million Bitcoins which are 5.24% of the total supply of 21 million valued at current price of $55k per coin making his net worth at $35 billion adding him in Forbes richest person list.Its really huge amount and this makes people more interested in him.

4) His creation has make him a celebrity every crypto enthusiast wants to meet with and know his more secret creation and development he has made in these years.

But still he does not want to reveal his Indentity and remain in closed doors until he wish to do so.

[TedMosby]

money is a sensitive thing. everyone needs clarity.
I know this is not a forum for conspiracy theory, but what if bitcoin was invented by a group that rules world economics all this time.
so there's a chance that we will be f*cked up "centraly" and "decentraly"
people also care about satoshi, because some group might want to attack him, and intervene bitcoin.
if satoshi's identity finally reveals, I believe there's more chance for bad things to happen.

[Amejoaquim]

Maybe they just want to say thanks to satoshi and curious how smart he is and i actually doesn't care about that.

Most of us just curious about how satoshi looks like and want to know about the story how she creat Bitcoin.

[ven7net]

Why do people care who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was? It's like wondering the name of the person that created the wheel. Sure, I suppose I would be curious about the name of the inventor of the wheel, if nothing else to raise a beer to them from time to time, but ultimately the wheel is the important part of the story.

I believe that the community wants to know who Satoshi is in order to understand who is behind the creation of crypto. And usually this information opens the door to understanding why and for what purpose all this was created. Let me give you an example. Do you believe in crypto and then you find out that its creator was an ordinary fraudster for the illegal appropriation of other people's money, what would you do after that? You would probably reconsider your attitude towards crypto and want to sell everything and return the funds as soon as possible. On the other hand, if the creator of crypto would be a person who developed a solution to the global financial problem and thanks to him the whole world will be able to use the new money, and those who are now among the first will receive a number of advantages.
Probably, this information would induce you to even more adoption of crypto and you would know 100% that you are in the right place at the right time. As the saying goes, power is in knowledge!

[suzanne5223]

Why do people care who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was? It's like wondering the name of the person that created the wheel. Sure, I suppose I would be curious about the name of the inventor of the wheel, if nothing else to raise a beer to them from time to time, but ultimately the wheel is the important part of the story.

It natural for people to care about who Satoshi was and its something every crypto enthusiast once did when they were still newbies cause it something I have once done but after I read that left, I respect his decision and don't bother myself about it anymore.
In the situation where some people are obsessed with knowing his real identity in spite of knowing his decision, the reason behind can only two.
1) For fame. That's what happened with an investigative journalist with false claimed about knowing the real identity of Satoshi.
2) To destroy Bitcoin.

[molsewid]

Curiosity and nothing more.

I'm not curious of who Satoshi is TBH and I don't care if Satoshi is still alive or dead or anything that is related to him. Its enough for me that Satoshi created a currency that might change the financial industry as a whole . Its good that Satoshi really hid his/her/their identity and lets respect it if Satoshi want it that way.

We've seen many people claiming that they are Satoshi but nobody believed into them and it came to the point where people doesn't believe anymore in whoever will claim that they are Satoshi. It also came to the point where nobody is interested in knowing Satoshi anymore.

With all due respect to Satoshi, the brain of blockchain technology and the creator of bitcoin even i myself do curious who Satoshi was. I was also curious how he think of it, what made he think to create this on demand cryptocurrency, a much worth it and valuable crypto. It was such a brilliant mind like Satoshi that he come to this kind of cryptocurrency that i believe will be the solution to the diverse of fiat currency all over the world.

[UmerIdrees]

Why do people care who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was? It's like wondering the name of the person that created the wheel. Sure, I suppose I would be curious about the name of the inventor of the wheel, if nothing else to raise a beer to them from time to time, but ultimately the wheel is the important part of the story.

For every major invention in the world, we know the details of its founder. But when it comes to bitcoin, we only know the name of the founder of bitcoin ,Satoshi Nakamoto.  But we do not know any further details about him and no one has seen him physically that's why everyone is curious to know this mastermind who created bitcoin.

[pinggoki]

Why do people care who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was? It's like wondering the name of the person that created the wheel. Sure, I suppose I would be curious about the name of the inventor of the wheel, if nothing else to raise a beer to them from time to time, but ultimately the wheel is the important part of the story.

It's obvious that we want to know the real Satoshi Nakamoto despite of the use that he is the one who invented the most trending cryptocurrency right now which is the bitcoin and obviously it is really good yo know further details about the true identity of this inventor. Just like what the others say every great invention there is a great inventor in which we want to know why they invented it and what is the reason behind it. Everyone wants to know especially those person that becomes rich due to their invention.

[geegaw]

Why do people care who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was? It's like wondering the name of the person that created the wheel. Sure, I suppose I would be curious about the name of the inventor of the wheel, if nothing else to raise a beer to them from time to time, but ultimately the wheel is the important part of the story.

For every major invention in the world, we know the details of its founder. But when it comes to bitcoin, we only know the name of the founder of bitcoin ,Satoshi Nakamoto.  But we do not know any further details about him and no one has seen him physically that's why everyone is curious to know this mastermind who created bitcoin.

A great idea of the times and an asset of high value but even as more people use it, people still don't know the author behind this curtain, it is really a funny thing and arouses everyone's curiosity, I also searched a lot about the founder of Bitcoin but only knew about the names Satoshi Nakamoto, it's not clear and specific then from time to time I give up this curiosity. The networks of countries are also unknown, we can not do anything except to accept, no matter the conspiracy behind, as long as bitcoin is still a gold mine, we will continue to participate.

[CaVO32]

Why do people care who Satoshi Nakamoto is/was? It's like wondering the name of the person that created the wheel. Sure, I suppose I would be curious about the name of the inventor of the wheel, if nothing else to raise a beer to them from time to time, but ultimately the wheel is the important part of the story.

For every major invention in the world, we know the details of its founder. But when it comes to bitcoin, we only know the name of the founder of bitcoin ,Satoshi Nakamoto.  But we do not know any further details about him and no one has seen him physically that's why everyone is curious to know this mastermind who created bitcoin.

A great idea of the times and an asset of high value but even as more people use it, people still don't know the author behind this curtain, it is really a funny thing and arouses everyone's curiosity, I also searched a lot about the founder of Bitcoin but only knew about the names Satoshi Nakamoto, it's not clear and specific then from time to time I give up this curiosity. The networks of countries are also unknown, we can not do anything except to accept, no matter the conspiracy behind, as long as bitcoin is still a gold mine, we will continue to participate.

It is really more of curiosity here. And I guess a lot of us really want to know the true identity of Satoshi. However, it seems that we don't know if he is still alive or not. And if he is still alive, it seems he prefers to have a quiet life. And in this regard, I will respect his preference. We don't know the real reason why he kept quiet throughout these years. Maybe in time, someone will uncover his identity. Til then, let us be contented for what we have right now and be grateful that he invented this technology.

[Question123]

Some people are looking for him/her who is the real Satoshi but I'm sure he is watching us and he is happy of what he invented because millions of people right now around the world helping by the Bitcoin. It is really hard to find him because it is very secure his information and even the smart person are for sure are cannot find him so it means he is very intelligent.  They have different purposes and we do not what it is.

[redche]

“I wish you wouldn’t keep talking about me as a mysterious shadowy figure, the press just turns that into a pirate currency angle.  Maybe instead make it about the open source project and give more credit to your dev contributors; it helps motivate them.” Satoshi Nakamoto