Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Alright Jow Forums, we have it narrowed down
Chase Price
Daniel Smith
It has always been szabo. Kek putting fucking Roger ver up there like has any knowledge to create Bitcoin
Christopher Clark
Unironically Craig Wright and David Kleiman.
>On November 26, 2009 (Thanksgiving Day), Ira Kleiman and Dave met at their father’s home for an early dinner. He and Dave discussed Facebook’s recent success and Ira asked Dave if he was working on anything interesting. Dave responded by telling Ira he was working on “something bigger” than Facebook, that he was “creating his own money.”
>Ira asked Dave to clarify and jokingly asked if Dave was making counterfeit money.
>Dave responded by saying he was making “digital money.” He then opened his wallet, took out a business card, flipped it over, drew a “B” with a line or two through it, and commented on how “we” were working on a logo.
Landon Martinez
I think its this guy
Jack Hughes
Sergey Nazarov
Joshua Barnes
Satoshi Nakamoto=Surgery Nazarov.
Logan Davis
Hal Finney: Maybe, but also probably not. There is interesting evidence if you plot out all the network activity for the first hundred or so transactions/blocks.
Gavin: Nah.
CSW: See above. It's most certainly him.
Adam Back: Fuck no.
Vitalik Buterin: Yes, Satoshi was 12 when he invented Bitcoin.
Andreas: Eh, I've never actually thought of this. I could maybe see it.
Chaum: Nah.
Szabo: Seems to be the narrative most people want to be real, as he is a humble yet prescient thinker. However, the answer to this lies in the panel he did with CSW. He's not Satoshi.
Ver, Shrem, Voorhees: No
Mochizuki: Read some of his papers. Not him.
Lubin, McCalen, Ulbricht: No
Ross: No but he was certainly a visionary.
Kleiman: See above
Karpeles: Interesting thought. He was pretty autistic about p2p stuff back then.
Phil Wilson: I actually don't know who this is.
Dorian Nakamoto: The fact that he lived blocks away from Finney is one of the most interesting mysteries in crypto. I don't think he was involved, although I am curious if anyone's ever asked if he knew Finney.
NSA: Could be, but what's the fun in that?
Ryan James
It was a sunny luu. He wouldn't hurt a fryyy
Joseph Carter
Read the lawsuit. It’s pretty clear if you actually read it. It’s extensive. Ignore everything you read online.
Aiden Sanders
Thanks for making it clear that its clear who it is. No need to mention any names as thats irrelevant
Parker Powell
Luis Kelly
It was me. I am satoshi nakamoto.
Sebastian Ross
3rd row
Guy in the middle
Parker Rogers
satoshi nakamoto is satoshi nakamoto
Leo Murphy
After much DYOR, I think Kleiman and Wright make the most sense with Szabo and Finney in there. Phil Wilson is a third guy that Craig had contact with in Australia that said he was involved and did most of the work. Kleiman had a history in Forensic and computer security and Wright is a genius and strong mind in economics and computer science. Kleiman was very good at being secretive and he had the skills necessary to hide Craig and his identity in creating bitcoin. When he died, Satoshi Nakamoto was inactive on bitcointalk. Szabo is the genius behind smart contracts and it's pretty obvious that Sergey Nazarov has spoken with him and Chainlink will/may be a force behind smart contracts in crypto.
Connor Cooper
Finney, Szabo, Andresen are my top 3. Faythe has me leaning toward Szabo.
James Myers
EA Sports
Adrian Rogers
>Phil Wilson
Oh wow, he's Scronty. Interesting.
Andrew King
Unironically Jed McCaleb
Mason Long
>"It's in the game..."
Ryan Smith
its me
Gavin Sanchez
Seen this face the other day. Who is this?
Can agree with that. Read a little of it, but need to find the whole thing. Got source?
He's most likely involved too. reddit.com
It was definitely a group of people. One person could do the bulk, but Kleiman would provide the security of SHA256.
Jose Barnes
thats what i also think.
Jeremiah Moore
Sweet. Checking it out. Interesting to see what happens.
Andrew Anderson
It is the first guy to receive a transaction in bitcoin, and the first guy to work on it with satoshi because he was satoshi
Hal Finney.
Brody Clark
no sergey? ur don't know do you. link was always meant to be the top dog, they just needed a decade of open source development crowdsourced and manned at no cost to him and Nick, so they could sell dlt to the big dogs. Bitcoin>Ether>Chainlink. Sergey and Szabo are Satoshi. Link was what the whole thing was built for. It IS the God Protocol.
Lincoln Hall
Also, if anyone is interested I have a small forum that I haven't used yet. I would be very much curious to see what other Satoshi detectives think.
Cooper Bailey
NSA you dumb cucks. Why would satoshi be dead. Why have his cold address's never been accessed? You really believe those coins are dead? kek
Luis Torres
the OG /cryptochad/
Ryder Baker
Satoshi is likely from an English speaking country, and likely north americain at that.
Evidence: he used the following idiom:
>Jul 25, 2010 - Correct me if I'm wrong (please, and I'll gladly eat crow) but I think it would be hard to use an analytical attack on RIPEMD-160 in this case.
to eat crow is not a common idiom, and originated in America. The English and Aussies have their own version of this idiom, such as eating humble pie, and Aussies sue crow eater.
So its not craig wright, and someone should ask him if he knows what it means to eat crow to see the reaction.
Camden Roberts
sauce on this?
Evan Rogers
hal finney + nick szabo + dorian satoshi nakamoto
they are/were satoshi nakamoto
Jose Howard
It was this guy from New Zealand. I read it on the internet.
Bentley Lopez
You're seriously going to leave out Bram Cohen? The inventor of Bittorrent whose fascination with cryptography and digital currencies dates back years and whose writing style, age, and posting times line up 1:1 with Satoshi? Okay dude
Jordan Gomez
Craig said his people don’t eat crow. They eat pigs feet.
David Diaz
The Anti-Christ.
Michael Morales
Interesting
Connor Kelly
It was me. AMA.
Ryan Brooks
source?
Zachary Diaz
Just one old Nokia employee
Christopher Rogers
Hal Finney is going to be remembered as one of the most important Men to have ever lived.
Mason Sanchez
Upboat
Charles Evans
We are all Satoshi Nakamoto.
Hunter Price
It was this guy after all. A brilliant genius prone to bursts of genius followed by vociferous model train building.
James Hernandez
Set up a CSW thread if anyone's interested. Gonna be dumping info regardless
Dylan Perez
Some random Pajeet fucking a goat in Pakistan
Gabriel Anderson
They clearly picked his name out of the phonebook since he lived close by.
Brody Butler
Why no females or people of color?
Jaxson Hall
because theyre not people. Also theyre too stupid to create anything this awesome.
Blake Roberts
It's pretty clear it's either Szabo
Or Finney or maybe both.
Austin Smith
Unironically Vince Mcmahon
Dylan Richardson
Why does he look like a lesbian
Cooper Cooper
Man this bait makes me so mad lol. Btw you dont have the best candidate on there.
Jacob Smith
As Andreas Antonopolos said: It doesnt matter who he is. Its only the legacy that matters
Ethan Jenkins
Hadn't even considered that. BitTorrent is so core to dlt it only makes sense...
Blake Brooks
it´s johan liebert
Zachary Lewis
Its this man. You clearly don't have a fucking clue and I really don't think he gives a shit either. If you knew the truth you would fucking run not walk.
>Craig Wright
You fucking fool.
Wyatt Powell
Szabo was the first person to theorise Smart Contracts, and helped develop modern DE. He would be the best bet.
Jace Nguyen
"Curiosity and self-defined challenges (especially if unannounced so they
don't become a drag) combined with whatever else I like."
Jeremiah Lee
>Satoshi Nakamoto
"Wasted money isn't necessarily
bad per se. Money has no inherent value, it's just an instrument in the
economy and it's voting power. What matters is whether the expenditures
result in people wasting their and others' lives on unhappily doing useless
work or not. Unfortunately, they do, but not to as bad an extent as it
might seem at first. (And yes, this also affects distribution of wealth.)"
Gavin Diaz
IM satoshi nokamoto, were all satoshi nokamoto
Cooper Young
WTF
Samuel Smith
>Wudder
Robert Nelson
is that fucking ROGER VER
kek, my sides
Josiah Gonzalez
NSA for sure. No one can build bitcoin alone and given the secrecy behind it's origin, it has to be a powerful organization with multiple NDAs
Ian Walker
I'm Satoshi
Robert Adams
Bingo!
DESU, the images were put together from Google. Anybody issing feel free to post them and why you think they should be included.
Isaiah Murphy
Interdastin
Samuel Morris
Never heard of Bram Cohen. Interdesting.
Levi Reyes
I genuinely hope his identity is never revealed. It wouldn't matter. It doesn't matter.
Lincoln Miller
This, it’s probably Szabo and/or Finney and/or Dai...
Juan Powell
S.atoshi N.akamoto
S.ergey N.azarov
Joshua Fisher
Owen Thomas
This is interesting for those who want to spend the time to read it: archive.is
Gives a lot of credence to the fact that it was CSW and Dave Kleiman. It's possible that CSW boosts his role a lot knowing that the other is dead and can't prove him wrong, but the whole thing looks much more credible than I would have thought. Also, lol:
>For some reason – possibly fear of the ATO – Wright set up a trust fund called the Tulip Trust in June 2011, and asked Kleiman to sign an agreement stating that he, Kleiman, would hold 1,100,111 bitcoin (then valued at £100,000, currently worth around $800 million). For clarity: there is no evidence that Kleiman ever took custody of that amount. However, there was a separate agreement that Kleiman would receive 350,000 bitcoin and this transaction was made. ‘All bitcoin will be returned to Dr right on 1 January 2020,’ it says in the trust document.
Chase Garcia
marry: vitalik
fuck: roger ver
kill: adam back
Xavier Ramirez
So why doesn’t satoshi pay his partners wife back ?
That’s a dick move.
What chat room did the talk on ?
Noah Phillips
Ooo yea
Get to work
Landon Cooper
1. Nick Szabo described BitGold in his blog
2. Craig Wright read the post
3. Craig wrote a rough draft of Bitcoin's whitepaper and sent it to Nick. Craig signed as Satoshi.
4. Nick though: 'interesting, but poorly written.'
5. Nick edited the draft extensively and sent it back to Craig
6. Craig submited the paper to the Cryptography listserv
7. Hal Finney read the paper. In fact, Hal Finney was already aware of Satoshi through Nick.
8. Hal Finney starts talking to Craig (Satoshi) by e-mail
9. They decide to make it happen and write the software
10. Craig calls David Kleiman, asks for help
11. Wilson joins them via IRC
12. Done. Bitcoin client is released.
13. Gavin, Voorhes, Ver, McCaleb, Shrem become aware of it
Notice that at that time no one had any idea crypto would get any attention from non-cryptographers. It was mainly due to Gabin Andresen's work and Roger Ver's shilling that Bitcoin grew to become what it is today.
The NSA was involved in it too.
Jonathan Brown
Jow Forums be like
>damn he looks good here
sound like ex-girlfriends