Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

[2408AAY]

Satoshi is a great person
A legendary
He's us
He's crypto boss that's all I can say

[roborttyler]

Many said that the name Satoshi Nakamoto was a pseudonym. He is believed to be a Japanese, as the name sound so. He was big thinker. He changed the form of currency. Transaction charges very low.

[ijprasadr]

in my point of view he is the most skilled it professional in the world

[jemerson1420]

I think Sakamoto is relative in bitcoin.

[primarydumz]

He is to be consider a genius scientist who ever created a revolutionary coin, that offers economic liberty to the people around the world. God bless him  

[edjames]

Ok. Who is the owner of this website? How things are going? Someone HAS to know him.

Who purchased bitcoin.org?

The real question is:  who are YOU who ask such questions?

WTF dude? I'm in here since this was like an uber-secret masonic club with a handful of members.

Hmmmm, show us the secret handshake, and where is your apron? Spies! Spies are everywhere I tell you!

But as to bitcoin.org, the whois info is protected, but someone has to know who bought it, as you say

[winterblues]

There’s been a lot of speculation who Satoshi Nakamoto is. What’s for sure is that he/she/they is the inventor of Bitcoin; i.e. the person who published the original Bitcoin paper and created the first block of the Bitcoin blockchain. If Satoshi traded his Bitcoin for cash, he would also be absurdly rich: As of January 19, 2018, Satoshi’s 980,000 bitcoins are worth 11.7 billion US dollars.

We don’t know who Satoshi is, but even the speculations about his identity are well worth reading. Here are the most popular theories:

1. The NSA is Satoshi
Natalya Kasperskaja, the co founder of the Russian security company Kaspersky Lab, claims that Bitcoin is an invention of US intelligence agencies:

Bitcoin is a project of American intelligence agencies, which was designed to provide quick funding for US, British and Canadian intelligence activities in different countries. [The technology] is 'privatized,' just like the Internet, GPS and TOR. In fact, it is dollar 2.0. Its rate is controlled by the owners of exchanges.

Source: Speech “Modern technologies - the basis for information and cyberwars” at ITMO University St. Petersburg.

Kasperskaja’s claim is not new. Every now and then, someone new comes up with “evidence” that Bitcoin was invented by the NSA / the KGB / Mossad / etc, and that Satoshi Nakamoto is a codename for a group of secret service crypto experts.

However, there’s little evidence for this. Most of these stories are probably just conspiracy theories, or, like in Kasperskaja’s case, [Russian] propaganda.

2. Satoshi is Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto / Hal Finney / Nick Szabo

Various journalists have claimed to have identified Satoshi Nakamoto. In 2014, Newsweek published a piece about Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a 64-year old ex-engineer and developer living in Temple City, CA. They concluded that the language style of Satoshi’s original paper is amazingly fluent for a Japanese individual, and that it’s therefore much more likely that Satoshi is a US citizen. The (at least somewhat) unique style of his Bitcoin source code also suggests that he’s a single individual, and not a group of people.

Andy Greenberg from Forbes later suggested that crypto expert Hal Finney was connected to Satoshi Nakamoto. Finney was involved in Bitcoin from the start, and received the first test transaction on Jan 12, 2009[6]. Curiously, he also lives in Temple City - just 1.6 miles away from Dorian Nakamoto. Some people even claimed that Finney is Satoshi, but at least Greenberg doesn’t think he is.
When Greenberg visited Finney, Finney showed him his Gmail account where he frequently exchanged mails with Satoshi in the early days of Bitcoin. At that time, no one knew that Bitcoin would become such a big thing in the future. To Greenberg (and to me) it seems unlikely that Finney would have created a fake email exchange with his alter ego.

Others suggested that Nick Szabo is Satoshi. In 2005, Szabo published an idea about “Bit Gold” that was very similar to Bitcoin.[7] Several other things hint at Szabo being Satoshi, though all of them are very speculative in nature. If you want to read more, check out Anonymous' answer to “Is Satoshi Nakamoto really Nick Szabo?”.

I personally don’t believe that any of the aforementioned - or similar names from the early days of Bitcoin - are Satoshi; even though I would not completely rule out the possibility. The most common counter-argument against Szabo and Dorian Nakamoto is that their writing style doesn’t match with the style of the original Bitcoin paper. So even if they were involved, they were certainly not the people who put the idea in writing.

3. The NSA knows who Satoshi is

In a widely-cited Medium article, Alexander Muse tells the story how the NSA identified Satoshi Nakamoto. Muse claims to have this information from a Homeland Security source, although he can’t back this up with any facts.

Muse writes that the NSA used stylometry, i.e. the analysis of the writing style, to identify Satoshi. Stylometry had already been used to compare Finney’s, Szabo’s, and Dorian Nakamoto’s writing style with Satoshi (with a negative result). However, Muse states that these efforts only had a small dataset of publicly available posts, whereas the NSA used a front-door access to all Google and Yaho user accounts and their copies of data flows across fiber optic cables as a basis for their analysis. In other words, the NSA is supposed to have matched all Gmail and Yahoo messages with Satoshi’s paper and forum posts.

Why? Muse writes that the NSA wanted to make sure that Satoshi wasn’t an agent of Russia or China.

According to Muse, the NSA eventually got a positive match, and identified Satoshi. Muse doesn’t say what they did with this information.

What made me wonder: If a Forbes journalist could just walk to Finney and see real emails with the original Satoshi, why would the NSA need to undertake such an expensive analysis? After all, they could just have checked out Finney’s Gmail account to identify Satoshi’s original account.

4. Satoshi is a private person / group of private persons and wants to stay hidden

One of the greatest puzzles in Satoshi’s mystery is why he doesn’t cash in his Bitcoin fortune. Many believe that this has to do with his desire to stay private.

Already at the foundation of Bitcoin, Satoshi took great effort to conceal his identity (most likely because he didn’t know if what he was doing was legal). Even if he would cash in just a small portion of his Bitcoin fortune, this might jeopardize his privacy - and the implications of that could be disastrous.
The media would hunt him down to get insights into his life. Secret services all over the world would observe him. And after all, he’d still have access to a billion-dollar Bitcoin wallet (or a well-filled bank account), which would make him a prime target for criminal organisations all over the world. The news that Pavel Lerner, analyst of crypto exchange Exmo Finance, was kidnapped by Ukranian gangsters, certainly didn’t help to change Satoshi’s mind.

[Dancobit]

Who is Satoshi?

He is Edmond Dants ... and he is my father. And my mom ... my brother ... my friend. He is you ... and me. He is all of us. hihihi 

[hitchcoin]

There is no any real identification for Satoshi Nakamoto but we all know that there are some people who initially started the bitcoin and were smart enough to keep their identities away from the community.

[Chickendinner123]

I think we all dont know who is Satoshi Nakamoto and if some saying that they know we think deep and doubt because there is no real identification for Satoshi Nakamoto but we know that there are people who create bitcoin and they keep their identity to be secret. Im amaze on the peopke behind bitcoin because they are smart.

[Gleb Gamow]

As I stated before, I leaned heavily toward Satoshi Nakamoto being a creation my James Simons with the reins passed to Robert Mercer, SN being part of a team consisting of crypto expects with Nick Szabo being the online voice of SN.

Most likely, Bitcoin was created for the primary purpose of having another set of commodities to trade via hedge funds down the road, down the road commencing about now as cryptos enter trading on the legacy stock exchanges.

[Rustandy]

Satoshi.Nakamoto is known as the creator of Bitcoin. The currency is completely controlled by the software. It has been mentioned that Satoshi Nakamoto is just a pseudonym taken from the name of technology companies such as Samsung, Toshiba, Nakamichi and Motorola. One theory that is quite widely accepted is that Satoshi Nakamoto actually represents a team. Bitcoin is said to have an excellent design that it seems impossible to make by just one person.

[henry 94]

Satoshi Nakamoto has come to hear the inventor of Bitcoin Coin is the great scientist, although it is not fully understood, but most communities believe in them

[Ragnarok2203]

Maybe just maybe, he was the man from the future 

[hitchcoin]

Does not matter what happens, I keep fingers crossed and believe that they will manage to sit low and keep ther personal information unavailable.

[kitwalker]

Satoshi Nakamoto is an alias for the creator of Bitcoin. He's also the one who devised the first blockchain database. But no one ever know the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto until now.

[Df9898]

Satoshi Nakamoto that is who created the bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto that is just a pseudonym.

[Crypto Mark]

If that's even his name. Just read the bitcoin wiki on him and I'm amazed. Nobody knows him.

Long time passed since he last posted in here. Why? "Busy"? I don't think so. He was active when bitcoin needed support but since the slashdot...
Also, it seems has knowledge in many areas, especially economy. He doesn't act like the average human. Not taking advantage out of his creation, leaving without telling anything. Is he even a single person or a group?

How can someone create something so great and not stepping out to get the credit?

Bitcoin's general principles and systems have been described in 2008. Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym of the Bitcoin developer group or the digital asset. I do not yet know who Satoshi Nakamoto is even though there is an Australian technology entrepreneur Craig Wright who claims himself as the creator.

[vincesmart]

Satoshi Nakamoto is the person who created the bitcoin forum or less the creator of the bitcoin forum, Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym, maybe Satoshi Nakamoto does not want to be known by the people, so Satoshi Nakamoto managed to create a bitcoin forum.

[Assface16678]

If that's even his name. Just read the bitcoin wiki on him and I'm amazed. Nobody knows him.

Long time passed since he last posted in here. Why? "Busy"? I don't think so. He was active when bitcoin needed support but since the slashdot...
Also, it seems has knowledge in many areas, especially economy. He doesn't act like the average human. Not taking advantage out of his creation, leaving without telling anything. Is he even a single person or a group?

How can someone create something so great and not stepping out to get the credit?

I think Satoshi Nakamoto wants to battle the capitalists and revolutionize the whole economy by creating a currency that is open for everyone that no one at the same time could control. He stepped out of the light because battling these capitalists means imminent death if they were to find him. And so he has gone away to secure his safety. After all, he don't want to control bitcoin anyway.