Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Candidates!

[BTCETFInvestor]

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[SmartGold01]

After discovering that he is Satoshi nakamoto what else do you wanna do?
I think there are more topics that talks about Satoshi and God sake it's time we let Satoshi be and focused on the concept he has invented.
Today,. tomorrow and next day someone would definitely come and still talks about same topic of knowing whom is Satoshi. I think before creating something like it would be better you make use search buttons to know if similar topic has been existed or not.

[Medusah]

Taher Elgamal is also considered the "father of SSL", yet many later inventions that used SSL obviously weren't his.  Adam Back invented hashcash, but that does not mean that no person could have used this knowledge to create something new.  Also, Adam used a different version of hashcash than Satoshi, difficulty in hashcash was expressed in bits.

You can also look on code written by Satoshi and Adam, and see they're not written by the same person.

[BTCETFInvestor]

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[Dunamisx]

We don't know who is Satoshi ad anyone telling you they do are lying, we only know Bitcoin, because we can have and use it, many people in time past ha e claimed to have known Satoshi or be Satoshi themselves, the only person of a blessed memory I may still believed know Satoshi in person probably is Hal Finney and he's no more, so what else can we track about Satoshi when everything remains a mystery and we only have to respect his privacy and decision.

[snipie]

Satoshi Nakamoto drama will remain endless apparently until the day he die and allow one close relative or a unique friend to tell his story to the world. Until then, all these remain speculation and many candidates could be named here, whether alive or passed away, without forgetting the intelligence interference rumo(u)r.
By the way, I personally write sometimes words the England way and other times the US way. It depends from what I feel that moment and the person I am responding. I mean it proves nothing and the email timing thing, it is not a solid proof because many foreigners use double timing.

[SATWAT]

This drama is going to be existed for long time because its wired no one know about who Satoshi Nakamoto is and in next few years still no one going to have correct reply about this because just few persons were near to him while he was doing this.
Suddenly he disappears and then no one have any clue about this while this bitcoin is still on for more than 15 years sometime I also feel it's not a person work team was behind this which was having own interest and then gone behind the scene with have no intention to appear again.
Truth will be out even took time because its always part of nature things been never stay like this someone will surely reveal all about this, but maybe we will never have any update about this in our lives.

[justinlamode]

Assuming Adam Back is Satoshi, I don't know what we can do with that information. At this point, it will be too risky for Satoshi to reveal himself and making post like this which suggest that someone is Satoshi might be putting the person at risk since there is a growing attack on people who are known to own cryptocurrency.

[uchegod-21]

At this point,  even if the real Satoshi comes back to tell us "hey! I'm Satoshi, I'm back" we all will still argue it and reject him. Let's all face reality, we don't know who the real Satoshi is. Many people have claimed to be Satoshi which at the end turned out that they were all liars. We should all accept that Satoshi is unknown, Bitcoin has been doing perfectly well even with his identity being questionable and unknown to the public. We have debated this for quite a long time and it is time now we let it rest.

[HONDACD125]

What's the point of trying to find who the real Satoshi is or was? He created Bitcoin, gave us this big industry that is making so many of us good money, so many of us are living better lives because of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, we have better global payment systems and ways we can transact money across borders without any problems and going through a bunch of paperwork, that too paying a small fee. All these things are working perfectly well with the identity of Bitcoin's creator being hidden, so why do we need to find out in the first place?

It's curiosity, I know, but it's an unnecessary search. We shouldn't be finding answers to questions that will possibly have negative consequences for us instead of positive ones, and in my opinion, the market will always be better if Satoshi stays unknown, the trust people have on Bitcoin and its network will stay strong if we don't know anything about its creator, and we let it stay the way it is.

[peter0425]

After discovering that he is Satoshi nakamoto what else do you wanna do?
I think there are more topics that talks about Satoshi and God sake it's time we let Satoshi be and focused on the concept he has invented.
Today,. tomorrow and next day someone would definitely come and still talks about same topic of knowing whom is Satoshi. I think before creating something like it would be better you make use search buttons to know if similar topic has been existed or not.

People are so uncomfortable about uncertainty. They want to know everything which in this case is not even applicable already. Nothing will really happen to you if you know who Satoshi is. But beside from that there is no telling whether you are right or wrong so there’s almost no point.

[Dave1]

Is Adam back the creator of Bitcoin?
Adam Back is one of the first people known to have been contacted by the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. He has also been positioned as a potential candidate for Satoshi's real-life identity, although he has strenuously denied this.

This doesn't make sense, why would you contact your own self? We've seen the emails between the two, and that is true, they have correspondence prior to the release of the white paper. It's because Satoshi wanted to add Adam Back's creation as citation.



And here is the official email:



https://x.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1760718737286537526

And Adam only registered in this community in 2013, everyone can check his profile here: adam3us

[Iron Fist]

I admit that I don't know who Satoshi Nakamoto really is, and probably no one does. Or maybe some do but are sworn to secrecy. But I'm sure you don't know, either.
All the "evidence" you've presented is circumstantial, and unless Adam Back himself admits that he is Satoshi, and proves it, this topic is moot.

[sheenshane]

Many people claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, yet none have signed a message using his well-known Bitcoin address. The only definitive way to prove you are Satoshi is to cryptographically sign a message with the private key associated with one of the Bitcoin addresses known to belong to Satoshi, specifically the address from the genesis block.

IMO, we should respect Satoshi's choice not to reveal himself for security reasons.
Even Satoshi has nothing to do with Bitcoin at this time, unless he decides to sell the Bitcoin he has.

[o48o]

Who is Satoshi Nakamotoi?

What we know:

We know Satoshi Nakamoto was communicating from Central Europe because his emails were UTC time stamped for Central Europe.

We know Satoshi Nakamoto was communicating with Martti Malmi with Martti's emails having one hour later UTC time stamp. Martti Malmi is from Sweden and attended University of Helsinki in nearby Finland.  
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Right at the start you get your facts wrong. Martti Malmi is Finnish and University of Helsinki is in Finland as Helsinki is the Capital of Finland. So not "nearby Finland".

So pardon me that i don't want to give too much weight to rest of your facts and a video from 3 years ago.

Sure, Adam Back has been one of the main candinates for a while now, but you aren't bringing anything new to the table here. Just search the forum about satoshi identity.

[cr1776]

Many people claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, yet none have signed a message using his well-known Bitcoin address. The only definitive way to prove you are Satoshi is to cryptographically sign a message with the private key associated with one of the Bitcoin addresses known to belong to Satoshi, specifically the address from the genesis block.

IMO, we should respect Satoshi's choice not to reveal himself for security reasons.
Even Satoshi has nothing to do with Bitcoin at this time, unless he decides to sell the Bitcoin he has.

Exactly.  If he wanted to be known, signing is easy. Otherwise it is just blowing smoke.  Big hat, no cattle.

[tech30338]

Until now its one of the greatest mystery, nobody knows who is Satoshi Nakamoto, he can only shed the light, and solve this mystery maybe he's friends even don't know that the man they are talking to is one of the richest person on earth and evented bitcoin, we can only make theories about him, saying this and that, but we have no clue, we may have but we might be pointing at the wrong person, I'm hoping he comeback and see what had become if bitcoin, no he might already seeing this, taking a cup of coffee, being proud of what it has become.

[Iranus]

It's been 16 years and he hasn't appeared once, and he probably has no intention of coming back. It's his decision and we should respect that, not make unconvincing assumptions and turn him into a pointless topic of discussion.

If it was you, when you decided you wanted to be anonymous, wanted to rest and live a peaceful life. Do you feel annoyed and offended if someone keeps talking about you and tries to drag you back into the hustle and bustle of life out there? I think Satoshi feels the same way because he is human too. So if we truly respect him, let's respect his decision.

[michellee]

They can claim as Satoshi Nakamoto but if they can not verify and sign in Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet, they are not Satoshi Nakamoto. They just trying to get popularity by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto.

Many more people will claim they are the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Why don't we let Satoshi Nakamoto be a mystery, while we should focus on what we did and continue Satoshi's work. If Satoshi think that Satoshi needs to show to people, Satoshi will do that and sign in to Satoshi's wallet.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

In many years, nobody know who is or are Satoshi Nakamoto and you think you know that, not we know that!!!

I don't know who is or are Satoshi Nakamoto but I feel like anyone who claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto is Faketoshi.
Before going to a post of theymos on it, let's read about Satoshi's lesson topic first.

Then

Are all of the interviews in the trailer original? I got the feeling that several of them were interviews I saw many years ago, though I could be wrong.

My current feeling on Satoshi's identity is:
 - Sassaman is a very bad candidate. If this is their conclusion, then they totally failed to do proper research.
 - 50% chance it's someone nobody's ever heard of, and nobody will ever figure it out
 - 35% chance it's Hal Finney. (Over time, I've moved more probability into this category.)
 - 10% chance it's someone else in the Bitcoin-verse
 - 5% chance it's a group within the CIA

But I'm really not a fan of the whole "search for Satoshi" genre. Being anonymous, Satoshi is an excellent myth and source of inspiration, since we can't see much of his flawed humanity. Mythical-Satoshi is a humble man who, with a lot of persistence and skill, but not with a level of brilliance beyond the reach of us mortals, single-handedly created a clockwork device so powerful that it shook the world. And then, in an action which nobody in the traditional halls of power would ever take, he had the wisdom to walk away: a modern Cincinnatus. I like that myth very much, and I'd rather it not be tainted by association with an actual human.