First off note this is a speculative posting but I believe after a few years of researching this is conclusive(to me), although not definitive this is where the evidence points.
I invite Debating , New evidence , Correlative thoughts , Oppositions. Any input! Lets really talk about this from an social intelligence hypothesis on who invented bitcoin. lets reach it as a consensus opinion via collaboration.
I may edit this post to reflect updates as findings come out or need to be corrected.
Satoshi is Hal.
Ask yourself these questions.
Who invented PoW?
Who invented PGP?
What is bitcoin?
"And of course the price gyrations of bitcoins are entertaining to me. I have skin in the game.
But I came by my bitcoins through luck,
with little credit to me. I lived through the crash of 2011. So I've seen it before. Easy come, easy go."
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0 (Bitcoin and me (hal finney))
-My theory here is Hal was creating disassociation, he is after all the backbone that is BTC with pow and pgp.
Another example of disassociation is
Hal created profile November 29, 2010
Satoshi last posted December 13, 2010 A 2 week overlap?
Bye Satoshi, Hello Hal. Almost no interaction between the 2 even though they had worked together since
before November 19th 2008 (sourceforge add)
This isn't by any means definitive evidence ,correlative circumstances maybe.
But when you start adding up correlative circumstances that are separate, things get interesting.
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto lived 2 blocks away from Harold, another circumstance that cannot be ignored.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/who-is-satoshi-the-hal-finney-dorian-nakamoto-connectionI believe Hal scapegoated behind this man's identity assuming he's elderly,
nearing homelessness and would be none the wiser and even "if" he and Dorian would have plausible deniability. on a "weird circumstance"
Lets dig a little deeper into the past.
"Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization -
...offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations.
The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them."
- Hal Finney, Cypherpunks Mailing List, 1992
In 1994 Hal signed up to get frozen like walt disney at Alcor, who does that unless you just
"know" your onto something?
Maybe he knew he may need to fix a potential world issue economy in 150-200 years.
(in reference to Hal being the 128th patient)
https://www.alcor.org/2014/12/hal-finney-becomes-alcors-128th-patient/(Max knew hal about 20 years before he passed,15 years before BTC was invented)
Max- "He was the very first debugger and contributor to Bitcoin’s code and was the recipient of the
first Bitcoin transaction in January 2009,
receiving 10 bitcoins from Bitcoin’s
possibly pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto."
Sounds like even Max More thinks/knows "satoshi nakamoto" is bullshit. Interesting?
I think Dr.More may have More answers then we know.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150212081404/http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2014-August/082585.htmlThis man coined Extropianism back in the early 90's & Hal was immediately on board.
Here's the elephant in the room
The fact that "satoshi" sent Hal the first BTC TX should be a pretty big eye opener.
Something as big as fintech pioneering , don't we all test in our
own ecosphere before launching?
If Hal didn't invent bitcoin one of these people probably did or someone relevant to cml or eff.
Michael Tiemann
Eric Hughes
Timothy C. May
Hal may even be scapegoated, who
really knows?.
I personally think bitcoin is Hals life work it all added up to this.
