Does Satoshi Needs to Reveal His Identity ?

[DanWalker]

What is your opinion ? 

Do you mind when you are wanting to be quiet and being harassed by others? I think satoshi too because he is human like us, we should respect his decision. The discussion about his identity does not benefit bitcoin or us, and I think you should stop it now, it is not going anywhere. Don't be too selfish because of your own curiosity and try to harass others, if he wants to reveal his identity, he will do it himself without you or anyone's advice. He has left us a priceless fortune, we should thank him and wish him peace with his choice.

[franky1]

There are so many people in the Bitcoin Talk Forum who have interest to discover the true identity of the Bitcoin and Blockchain inventor. Also there are few who oppose the matter, that Satoshi Nakamoto must not reveal his identity.

first of all bitcoin code is open and clear. there is no secret key no hidden code and no feature that can be locked or unlocked by any individual. so there is no "need" for satoshi to be around in regards to bitcoin code/rules

there is a social interest where some want to know satoshi's life story. some want to know his inspirations or idea's of what could have, or would need to have going forward to make bitcoin better. but thats not a need. thats a want

but again no one should have a central single person in decision power so again not NEEDED but only socially interested to hear from

there is no "he must" return. it makes no difference

I am so much confused regarding matter. So I think, it would be better to arrange a consensus about the identity of the Bitcoin and Blockchain inventor. The members of this forum can vote for themselves and it will be helpful for Satoshi Nakamoto to make a correct discussion.

What is your opinion ? 

we dont NEED a social consensus about if satoshi should come back. he is a human if he doesnt want to, then thats his decision. no one should force another person to reveal anything the person doesnt want to reveal

bitcoin itself was designed in a way that someone with coin should not be NEEDED/forced/coerced to reveal identity. property/value to someone else.. if someone has bitcoin its their and only their decision if they use it or move it

[Wakate]

Let me tell you, nobody is interested in know what the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto could be. The government had been making a lots of theories to know who Satoshi his but all proves nothing. Have it in you mind that many investors are okay with his anonymous identity which had keep the market more if a trust. Since the Crypto market is doing fine and we don't have any challenge of whether the crypto market crashing tomorrow because his anonymous identity makes the market stronger than what it will be if his identity is known.

[Queentoshi]

What is your opinion? 

Satoshi does not need to reveal his identity, reason following the rising and falling nature of bitcoins in market, people may tempt to express their opinion about it when it is displeasing and point the questions and blames to Satoshi if they know his identity. Even government agencies may build up legal cases against him claiming that he wants to disrupt the economy and maybe has bad intentions of making money from his creation. It is better he stays annonymous.

[glendall]

What is your opinion ? 

I don't think satoshi needs to reveal his true identity, because the community has agreed to his initial decision to keep himself from the public and leave as a mystery who the real sathosi is

[kryptqnick]

Bitcoin is largely about having some privacy and about decentralization. Satoshi's identity not being revealed serves these purposes well. Satoshi has some privacy, and the development of Bitcoin can go on without a center (the creator) heavily weighing in on all big decisions. Moreover, whoever the real person is, there will be people who don't share the actual person's views, values, or opinions, and some might even stop using Bitcoin because of that. So it's easier and better for the community not to know who Satoshi is; it's probably better for Satoshi as well because there's no need to worry about tax authorities trying to imprison you, jealous people trying to rob you, and tons of publicity.

[m2017]

Re: Does Satoshi Needs to Reveal His Identity ?

Obviously not. What has Satoshi (or Bitcoin) have to gain with it in the first place? More than a decade of tight opsec just to budge in the end for no reason at all. Probably the only viable reason is that if Satoshi ended up being a masochist because the authorities would surely be on his arse.

Correct point of view. Satoshi doesn't need to reveal his identity, if only because more than 10 years of anonymity will go down the drain. Why would he do this? To arrange a big surprise with an exclamation of "here I am"? Therefore, after the post above, I am 100% sure that Nakamoto will never personally release information about himself. Since he chose the path of hiding information about himself, then in my opinion, there are no other options but to go to the end while continuing to remain unknown to the whole world.

[UserU]

How long will we continue discussing Satoshi's identity? If he wants to show himself, he will show it himself. As for society, what will we benefit from if he shows his identity? Bitcoin is designed to be decentralized and therefore the appearance of the first developer will not contribute to strengthening the principle of decentralization.

I hope such topics will stop.

He's been among us all along...

[Franctoshi]

Let me tell you, nobody is interested in know what the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto could be.

A lot of people are interested to know who real Satoshi is, but at this point in time and the number of years already spent since the creation of Bitcoin without him coming out to reveal his identity, Therefore , I think it doesn't make much of sense anymore to come out now to do so

However, if eventually he comes out one day in the future to identify himself, well still fine because it will be an interesting thing to know who the incredible Man/Men with such ideology really are.

[Issa56]

I am so much confused regarding matter. So I think, it would be better to arrange a concensus about the identity of the Bitcoin and Blockchain inventor.

I don't know why you want to know the identity of satoshi nakamoto, to be I believe his identity should remain hidden, Bitcoin have been in existence since 2009 and satoshi identity have been hidden, which bitcoin have been going well, I believe if satoshi can reveal his identity, then it's really going to affect bitcoin. So i think everything about satoshi should remain hidden.

The members of this forum can vote for themselves and it will be helpful for Satoshi Nakamoto to make a correct discussion.

What is your opinion ? 

No matter how the forum members vote, satoshi nakamoto will never reveal his identity so I think it's better you stop thinking if people vote in support of satoshi revealing his identity he will do that, if he is going to reveal his identity he will have done that.

[Flexystar]

So he invented blockchain in the hope that he would never have to reveal himself through traditional banking system and now you want to form formal conviction which will reveal his identity.
That’s FuNnY!!!

He will never ever do that and we never know whether this was an individual, group, private organisation or government organisation until the end! Because if identity is revealed just like that then it could expose insider info and could give tough times to the crypto.

[lassdas]

If he decides to takes control Bitcoin ....

And how would that work?

Not even Satoshi himself can take control or become the authority, anonymous or not.
He could draw the price down by selling a bunch of coins for cheap, but that's it.

It's irrelevant who Satoshi is,
I always wonder why people want to know that bad
Because they just want to know? That's... not a good enough reason.

[serjent05]

What is your opinion ? 

There is no need for Satoshi to reveal his identity.  It is better for him to hide in eternity because it is beneficial to the Bitcoin consensus because knowing he is the real satoshi will somehow affect the decision of the consensus if ever he stated his opinion.  Bitcoin market and Bitcoin development are doing great even without Satoshi, it simply means that there is really no need for him to surface just to give in to the wants of other people who are interested in seeing the real Satoshi.

[kawetsriyanto]

There are so many people in the Bitcoin Talk Forum who have interest to discover the true identity of the Bitcoin and Blockchain inventor. Also there are few who oppose the matter, that Satoshi Nakamoto must not reveal his identity.

I am not sure how many members here want Satoshi to reveal his identity. But, I am sure that more members will not care about it or will not want to reveal Satoshi's Identity.
Why?

Because we believe in Satoshi and respect Satoshi's decision to hide his identity about him. Hiding the identity of Satoshi must have been carefully thought out and considered by Satoshi itself. We don't know the exact reason. However, since Satoshi has already decided on the condition, why should we bring it up and want Satoshi to reveal the real identity? Doesn't that mean we've crossed the line on the principle of "privacy" itself?

[harapan]

No please, First you have to be happy for the fact that someone in his or her good sense of mind crated such a great weapon those use against the banks and governments.
Keep more focus on how you buy and store bitcoin and not digging about the privacy of Satoshi, the question is pointless do something better.

[DooMAD]

The only reply worth giving is the one I gave here.  

The real question is: who is going to support my call for topics like this to be nuked on sight?

Also, everyone put the OP on ignore.  They're a massive bellend.

[coolcoinz]

No he doesn't have to do anything, especially reveal his identity. It's even better for him and for us if it stays the way it is. I hope we won't find out who he is because the mystery gives bitcoin an angle that no other cryptocurrency has. Anonymous money made by an anonymous author.

I feel that we like it the way things are and Satoshi wants to remain anonymous, or is dead.

How long will we continue discussing Satoshi's identity? If he wants to show himself, he will show it himself. As for society, what will we benefit from if he shows his identity? Bitcoin is designed to be decentralized and therefore the appearance of the first developer will not contribute to strengthening the principle of decentralization.

I hope such topics will stop.

He's been among us all along...

Craig, Is that you?

[South Park]

There are so many people in the Bitcoin Talk Forum who have interest to discover the true identity of the Bitcoin and Blockchain inventor. Also there are few who oppose the matter, that Satoshi Nakamoto must not reveal his identity.

I am so much confused regarding matter. So I think, it would be better to arrange a concensus about the identity of the Bitcoin and Blockchain inventor. The members of this forum can vote for themselves and it will be helpful for Satoshi Nakamoto to make a correct discussion.

What is your opinion ? 

That is not the way to settle things out, democracy is not the perfect way to settle every single dispute, the information regarding the person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto is the only one that can decided that and if they do not want to reveal their identity on their own then that is their right, now that being said I will not deny that I am indeed curious about who they are, however I understand very well why they have decided to remain anonymous and I support their decision.

[BITCOIN4X]

Because we believe in Satoshi and respect Satoshi's decision to hide his identity about him. Hiding the identity of Satoshi must have been carefully thought out and considered by Satoshi itself. We don't know the exact reason. However, since Satoshi has already decided on the condition, why should we bring it up and want Satoshi to reveal the real identity? Doesn't that mean we've crossed the line on the principle of "privacy" itself?

I think that not only the people on the forum want to know him and want to know his real identity, but many world governments also want to get to know him better. I think satoshi really needs to keep his privacy so that it doesn't leak to the public and he doesn't have to reveal it, this is a privacy that he must maintain if he doesn't want the government to control him.

If satoshi was still around or alive then I think he'd be laughing reading how many people really want to know him.

[_BlackStar]

Re: Does Satoshi Needs to Reveal His Identity ?

For whatever purpose the user expects, I don't think he needs to.

So I think, it would be better to arrange a concensus about the identity of the Bitcoin and Blockchain inventor.

What for? I guess it's really not needed because maybe things like this don't really matter. Leave satoshi with himself and his privacy, we don't need to disturb anything although curiosity about his identity must exist among users.

What is your opinion ?

I disagree, lock the thread and look for other ideas if you really want to change users assumptions about you: Trust Summary for BitcoinMoses