Nobel prize for Satoshi.

[suzanne5223]

I was scouting through internet and i came across this very interesting post on if Satoshi deserve a Nobel prize.
Infact many forums had discussed it
Infact a professor  Bhagwan Chowdhry at the University of California in the United States presented the proposal of Nobel prize for Satoshi stating that technology presented by Satoshi is the most significant development of the 21st Century and will have immense implications in the way finance will be conducted in the future

Yes, Satoshi deserves the Nobel prize award for combining his ideas, and all the research done by some Universities and in the cryptography community to create what we called Bitcoin and blockchain today.

Personally i believe that Satoshi do deserve nobel prize for his work.

The creation of Bitcoin is not all own his work. Read the Satoshi session written by Theymos

I don't know, we even don't know who Satoshi in the first place so how can we award him the Nobel prize? Is he just a single individual or group of person who created Bitcoin?

I believe Satoshi is just an individual but he works with a lot of C++ and cryptography professionals anonymously.

I liked dealing with Satoshi when I did (which wasn't all that often), and I respected him a great deal. He had an incredible amount of "arrogance" in the sense that he saw seemingly-impossible challenges and believed (correctly) that he could conquer them, but yet he had zero arrogance in the commonly-understood sense. He was willing to give help to and accept help from people who knew and accomplished far less than him on the whole. He treated even me with respect, even though I was a 19-year-old excessively-individualistic idiot in 2010. I tend to remember Satoshi as a person who figured out what needed to be done, used all of his aptitude to get it done, and rarely got distracted by human failings like pride or fear. (Of course, this perception may well be more of a symbol in my head than an accurate image of a real person.)

[budi691]

for his discoveries in the 21st century Satoshi Nakamoto undoubtedly deserves the Nobel Prize. although it didn't receive too much positive praise in its early stages, but the impact that blockchain technology and Bitcoin has created for many people today and in the future, eventually everyone recognized it. I think whoever Satoshi deserves the Nobel prize even though it's still a mystery the satsoshi nakamaoto is anonymous

[Lucius]

How does the community will feel watching Craig getting that prize? i think that would be terrible bot the crypto community.

In Colombia, Faketoshi is recognized as the real Satoshi, although it doesn't really mean anything - but I believe that everything is possible in this crazy world, including Faketoshi winning the Nobel Prize, which would only be a confirmation that something is very rotten in the Nobel Committee. As I already wrote in the previous post, that award no longer represents absolutely nothing to me - and as far as I'm concerned, those who make decisions can award it to themselves.

[kryptqnick]

I think that Satoshi deserves a Nobel in Economics. It's first an foremost and economic innovation, and it's innovation of the kind that changed the world in many aspects, created a whole new industry, revisited what money is, what its essential traits are, and how it can be otherwise, and demonstrated in practice that a decentralized unregulated currency is not only possible but can also be attractive for a significant number of people around the world. Of course, since Satoshi's identity is unknown, they wouldn't know who to give the prize to, and it would be terrible if they gave it to Craig. So Satoshi is unlikely to receive this recognition.

[dezoel]

There are categories of Nobel prize, in which category do we think that he deserved it? There is a finance Nobel prize for example and that means he should have won it long time ago if you ask me, he did an academic research on blockchain and online money and created bitcoin out of it and I agree that it is definitely something amazing and deserves a Nobel prize.

But, if we are talking about any other category, peace prize, or any other thing like physics or chemistry etc, obviously it is not okay because we are talking about something he did not contributed to. Finance would be the only one that's okay and I am not sure if it would be easy to decide or not. Because it was long time ago.

[KingsDen]

I think that Satoshi deserves a Nobel in Economics. It's first an foremost and economic innovation, and it's innovation of the kind that changed the world in many aspects, created a whole new industry, revisited what money is, what its essential traits are, and how it can be otherwise, and demonstrated in practice that a decentralized unregulated currency is not only possible but can also be attractive for a significant number of people around the world. Of course, since Satoshi's identity is unknown, they wouldn't know who to give the prize to, and it would be terrible if they gave it to Craig. So Satoshi is unlikely to receive this recognition.

When you talk about great men in Economics, I have forgotten their names. The ones that discussed about the law of demand and supply, the ones that talked about insatiable nature of man, the ones that talked and about fixed and variable factors. They all did wonderful works, but Satoshi came with an exception, he didn't bring theory but practical and created a strong community around the world without government support.

Satoshi brought about liberty and freedom, as such needs award in Macro Economics and also in humanity. Even if no one receives the award, let it be reserved to the name "Satoshi Nakamoto".

[Issa56]

Satoshi is indeed a create man, he really deserves to be honored, Satoshi really deserve a noble prize but nobody knows him so I don't know how that will be easy, I believe Ukraine president should create a holiday which he should name it (Bitcoin free day), because am sure bitcoin really helped them during the war against Russia. Not only Ukraine president should do that am sure other presidents should also do that just to honor satoshi. If I have opportunity in my country, I will create a public holiday and it will be named bitcoin free day, I might even name some Higher institution in my country after satoshi, I think those are the ways we can honor him, he can't be given any award because nobody knows him.

[satosatanaka]

According to the rules ‘ A prize may not be shared among more than three individuals’.

So if the team behind bitcoin was greater than three individuals then no prize.

I don’t think an anon can win the prize either.

Regardless somewhere out there George and the gang would be happy to read this thread.

[bitbollo]

it is an interesting idea, for sure a nice proposal.
but it seems to me really difficult that he/she/they will ever receive such recognition.
from a certain point of view this would also be a sort of "certification" of the failure&backwardness of the old FIAT system

[Findingnemo]

I was scouting through internet and i came across this very interesting post on if Satoshi deserve a Nobel prize.
Infact many forums had discussed it
Infact a professor  Bhagwan Chowdhry at the University of California in the United States presented the proposal of Nobel prize for Satoshi stating that technology presented by Satoshi is the most significant development of the 21st Century and will have immense implications in the way finance will be conducted in the future

Personally i believe that Satoshi do deserve nobel prize for his work.
Especially after recent Ukraine crisis when we saw how donations could pour in in bitcoin. We saw how bitcoin can help people in events of war when banks were either closed or had frozen accounts.. People were homeless and short of money. We saw how bitcoin helped war affected people to overcome financial barriers and this showed the true potential of bitcoin and how it can support financial support and financial inclusion of poor and needy.

I believe for such a great contribution to science and humanity Satoshi do deserve a price, even when he is anonymous.

I request members to express their opinion as well.

He definitely deserves the reward for successfully implementing the blockchain technology into the monetary system and it worked but who will get the reward since we don't really know who is Satoshi Nakamoto and he didn't want to expose it until now so I feel let it be and still we have to see big change than what we are experiencing now.

The real world transactions are made using bitcoin, price tags in Bitcoin, people with money on their own wallets.

[Jeger.Kiting]

Many people who interact with the cryptocurrency industry (not just coders and other experts, but also regular investors) surely agree with you that Satoshi Nakamoto deserves the Nobel Prize. But I have no idea how the awarding procedure will work (as some in this thread have noticed this). maybe in absentia Of course, no one will attend the ceremony to accept the award, but if it does, it will undoubtedly have a beneficial impact. An award of this stature would signify bitcoin's official acknowledgement and undoubtedly draw the attention of many who have never even heard of it.

[Asiska02]

Satoshi ought to be honoured for the great technology he created, which has aided many people in some way. Given that we don't even know him in person, giving him the price is unnecessary. I feel that his absence has made bitcoin what it is today, and that identifying himself will only leave bitcoin vulnerable in the hands of the government, which has all regulatory powers in the country. In his last message, he stated that "the future of bitcoin is safe," and I believe he will remain so as long as he remains anonymous to the public.

[dothebeats]

I don't think Satoshi would even pass the initial screening. The criteria from their initial screening for nomination is strict, and also there are only a handful of entities that are allowed to nominate, and most of them belong to organizations that bitcoin isn't being taken as something good for their agenda. Sure, bitcoin may have been one of the revolutionary creations in the 21st century, but is its impact enough to be qualified into Nobel's selection process? Satoshi deserves some recognition from what they created, but I think a Nobel Prize is one that they wouldn't receive.

[nullama]

I don't think Satoshi would even pass the initial screening. The criteria from their initial screening for nomination is strict, and also there are only a handful of entities that are allowed to nominate, and most of them belong to organizations that bitcoin isn't being taken as something good for their agenda. Sure, bitcoin may have been one of the revolutionary creations in the 21st century, but is its impact enough to be qualified into Nobel's selection process? Satoshi deserves some recognition from what they created, but I think a Nobel Prize is one that they wouldn't receive.

I think the main issue with this prize is the following requirement:

they must still be living at the time of the Prize announcement in October

Since Satoshi Nakamoto is anonymous, then that requirement will never be possible to be satisfied.

[Flyingjack123]

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I believe for such a great contribution to science and humanity Satoshi do deserve a price, even when he is anonymous.

I request members to express their opinion as well.

Satoshi Nakamoto indeed deserves it but we are still not sure if Satoshi Nakamoto is only one person or a group of people, we will not know this at the moment. And another thing is can we award a noble prize to a person that is anonymous or unidentified?
Overall, whoever and whenever Satoshi Nakamoto now is, he/they are really proud on Bitcoin now.

Completely agree with you..
There have been people who are ahead of their time like Mendel who gave the famous principle of inheritance and he was awarded noble price after his death  30 years after in died.
Before that there was no rule to award nobel posthumously.

Can we apply similar principle for Satoshi and make a rule change...

[Lewan]

Why not?, I think the Nobel Prize can be given to anonymous people as well. Just as it can be given to people who have died, I think it can be given to people who have a name but whose identity is unknown. I loved this idea.

[Codswallop]

We don’t know whether Satoshi is a person or a group of people. And I think the Committee cannot nominate any anonymous person or group of persons for the Nobel Prize. The idea is good, but I don’t think it will happen until we figure out Satoshi really is/are.

[Hamza2424]

This Op topic is too old and well-known so I know that this one is one of the already discussed ones. Posting again doesn't make sense. Satoshi did a revolution in the financial sector yes he deserves our honor and do honor him by adopting bitcoin not by giving him the award that means nothing to him. It will be more appreciating Nations to accept his dream, motive, and invention. It can change our lives it gives us what we need, financial freedom.

[hZti]

Nobel prices are many times given after decades, because first they want to see if it is really useful for the humanity. So even if satoshi has not won a price by now, it does not mean he can win it in many years. Still I think it is a problem that he is not known.

[Blawpaw]

Of course Satoshi should be awarded with a Nobel Prize. Apart from creating one of the most important developments of the XXI century, Satoshi presented a gift to the world. Now, for those behind the Nobel Prize Mafia, it wouldnt make any sense as they only award the worse prople ever. Besides, why should we care if Satosi gets awarded on not? The Nobel Prize award is nothing but the get together of all the personalities that broght harm to the world.