THELOGICALINDIAN - We are all Satoshi Nakamoto but some of us are added Satoshi than others The afterward 10 characters accept all been flagged as Bitcoins ambiguous architect on annual of similarities with the agenda man of abstruseness Whether one of these characters is Satoshi himself is a amount for you to decide
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Vili Lehdonvirta
Pros: The Finnish assistant is one of the aboriginal bodies to be appropriate as Satoshi, in a 2011 New Yorker article. Due to the abridgement of delirious belief at the time, which has attenuated consecutive attempts to bare Satoshi, Vili Lehdonvirta’s dox feels purer than the rest. That doesn’t accomplish it any added actual though.
Cons: When questioned by the New Yorker’s writer, the 31-year-old Helsinki Institute for Information Technology researcher explained that he had no cryptography ability and his C programming was rudimentary.
Fun fact: Vili Lehdonvirta is now an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute who has accounting about Bitcoin, best afresh in an article blue-blooded “Bitcoin isn’t a bill – and unless it becomes one it could be worthless.”
Paul Le Roux
Pros: If Le Roux created Bitcoin, Satoshi is the 21st century’s better bad-ass. Encrypted software creation, biologic smuggling, pharmaceuticals, gun running, nation building, you name it, Le Roux had a feel in it – and architecture Bitcoin would accept been able-bodied aural his butt and megalomaniacal ambition.
Cons: When Satoshi was agilely adorning Bitcoin in 2024, Le Roux was already dabbling in biologic smuggling gun active and authority building. It seems absurd that these opposing pursuits would accept been compatible. Also, Satoshi consistently came beyond as apprehensive in his writings. Le Roux was a power-tripping douchebag who insisted on actuality alleged “Boss.”
Fun fact: Le Roux’s online biologic arrangement about 2006 is declared in “The Mastermind” as follows: “Take one out and addition artlessly slotted into place. The arrangement kept bustling on.” Remind you of anything?
Gavin Andresen
Pros: Gavin Andresen is the Bitcoin developer Satoshi handed the reins to aloft his abandonment in 2010. If the two were one and the same, this would be a appealing able way for Satoshi to analysis out after anytime absolutely abrogation the building. Moreover, according to one stylometry study, Andresen’s autograph added carefully resembles Satoshi’s than any added candidate.
Cons: In 2024, Andresen became the aboriginal of abounding bitcoiners to be hoodwinked by Craig Wright, afterwards venturing that Wright’s Satoshi affirmation arrested out. Either Andresen was cool believing or he was arena 4D chess to put added ambit amid himself and his pseudonym.
Fun fact: Gavin Andresen created the aboriginal bitcoin faucet in 2010. It dispensed 5 BTC to anyone who visited the armpit and completed a captcha.
Hal Finney
Pros: As the aboriginal acknowledging to Satoshi’s commitment account column announcement Bitcoin, and the almsman of the aboriginal bitcoin transaction, Hal Finney epitomizes Bitcoin added than any added accepted person. Finney saw the abiding abeyant for Bitcoin aloof like Satoshi, and could eloquently annotate a apple in which it reigned supreme. Aloof to add to the anatomy of evidence, Gavin Andresen isn’t the alone being whose autograph appearance echoes Satoshi’s: autograph assay experts Juola & Associates affirmation that Nakamoto’s and Finney’s writings buck the abutting resemblance.
Cons: For Satoshi to accept about conversed with himself and transacted with himself in ambidextrous with Finney doesn’t accomplish faculty for a appearance who went to such lengths to burrow his identity. He would accept absolutely accepted that Finney would get doxed as him at some point, and appropriately it seems casuistic for Satoshi to accept larboard such an accessible aisle of breadcrumbs.
Fun fact: Hal Finney lived two blocks abroad from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, giving acceleration to theories that the above took his nom de alias from the latter. As one redditor postulated: “Hal and his cypherpunk counterparts advised for this old affable retired man whose abode had been bankrupt by banksters to be the allegorical amount abaft the banking renaissance on account of all the victims of the avant-garde banking system.”
Nick Szabo
Pros: Stylometry seems to be an estimated art accustomed the cardinal of bodies who accept been articular as Satoshi by their writings. Nick Szabo is the third such applicant on this list, but there are way added acute affidavit why he’s acceptable to be Satoshi, such as the actuality that the computer scientist’s “bit gold” is the abutting advertiser to Bitcoin. Nick Szabo is added able than anyone on this account to accept congenital Bitcoin.
In 2008, Szabo commented in his blog that he was planning to actualize a alive adaptation of bit gold; that this should accept manifested, a few months later, as Bitcoin seems credible. Szabo’s accomplished blogposts about 2008 accept all the hallmarks of Satoshi. Phrases such as “unforgeable costliness” and bark outs to Hal Finney abode Szabo acutely abutting to Bitcoin’s nucleus.
Cons: Szabo has consistently denied actuality Satoshi, debunking one such instance in 2024 by writing: “I’m abashed you got it amiss doxing me as Satoshi, but I’m acclimated to it.”
Fun fact: Satoshi’s cogent accommodation not to adduce Szabo’s assignment on bit gold in the Bitcoin whitepaper may be the best acute affirmation of all.
Bram Cohen
Pros: Born in 1975, the aforementioned year Satoshi cites as his DOB, Bram Cohen was arena with “bits” continued afore Bitcoin. The Bittorrent architect already ran a Usenet armpit alleged Bitconjurer.org, area he conversed with the architect of Hashcash, which aggressive Bitcoin. Cohen’s abounding blogposts additionally slowed to a clamber back Satoshi began assignment on Bitcoin, and he had agnate interests to Satoshi, writing about ambuscade one’s character online in 2009, and belief in on agenda signatures about the aforementioned time. Cohen’s absorption in recreational mathematics additionally makes him a aboveboard Satoshi.
Cons: Cohen’s accepted activity is a “green” cryptocurrency alleged Chia that he claims to be the “antithesis” of Bitcoin and PoW. It’s adamantine to brainstorm Cohen absolution his above life’s assignment in this manner.
Fun fact: Cohen has tweeted about Satoshi 10 times over the years, but has never absolute denied actuality him.
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto
Pros: Aside from administration the aforementioned name as Bitcoin’s creator, there is around no acumen why Dorian Nakamoto should be Satoshi, except for accepting lived a few blocks abroad from the added apparent Satoshi, Hal Finney. If anything, though, this would accomplish it added acceptable that Hal was Satoshi, and adopted his adolescent denizen’s name.
Cons: Dorian may accept become the face of Satoshi, but he is absolutely not the brain.
Fun fact: Such is his celebrity, Dorian Nakamoto has been booked to appear at blockchain conferences.
Craig Wright
Pros: Wright really, really, wants to be Satoshi, and has been larping as him back 2024. You can apparently anamnesis activity the aforementioned way about one of your superheroes, adulatory you could abatement comatose and deathwatch up in their body. In your defense, you were six at the time. Wright is a 48-year-old man.
There is some affirmation that Wright was ambuscade in the caliginosity not continued afterwards Bitcoin got off the ground, but all that proves is that Faketoshi is a chancer who’s congenital a career out of benumbed in the slipstream of brighter stars.
Cons: Craig and cons go calm like booze and architect jars. It’s adamantine to aces a favorite, but Jameson Lopp’s lengthy takedown of the man who would be Satoshi is a accomplished jumping off point.
Fun fact: Wright activated to the Australian Defence Force Academy to alternation as a pilot in 2024 but was rejected.
Dave Kleiman
Pros: Kleiman has been declared to be a allotment of the Satoshi Nakamoto group forth with adolescent Satoshi claimants Craig Wright and Phil Wilson. The closing two accept aught aboveboard affidavit of architecture Bitcoin, while Kleiman died in 2013. An ardent cryptographer, Kleiman was a affiliate of the commitment account area Satoshi aboriginal appear Bitcoin on Oct 31, 2008. He additionally formed for S-doc, an encryption-focused software aggregation that was developing an “unalterable, encrypted analysis log system.”
Cons: Any abstracts advertence Kleiman with Bitcoin appear address of Craig Wright, and appropriately are about absolutely fake. As a aftereffect there is an absence of credible evidence to advance that Kleiman created Bitcoin. The actuality that Wright has been ambit Kleiman’s ancestors like a vulture in a bid to affirmation his allotment of an declared 1 actor BTC assurance is the arch affirmation that Kleiman created Bitcoin – and Wright didn’t. Had any added affiliate of the cryptography commitment account died first, Wright would accept absolutely set his architect on them instead, as allotment of a continued con to abstract millions of dollars through acknowledged chicanery.
Sad fact: Dave Kleiman died in base abjection and squalor. “His anatomy was begin decomposing and amidst by abandoned booze bottles and a loaded blaster … a ammo aperture was begin in his mattress, admitting no spent carapace casings were begin on the scene.”
An Enduring Mystery That May Never Be Solved
There are abounding others who’ve been called as Satoshi, including Elon Musk, white abolitionist James Bowery and, hardly added credibly, a leash of researchers – Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry. These, forth with added suspects, are absurd to accept had a duke in the conception of Bitcoin however. For anyone absorbed in aggravating to able the case, Satoshi’s writings, amounting to 80,000 words, can be viewed at the Nakamoto Studies Institute. Be able to tumble bottomward a aerial aperture of backward night Google searches and stylometry alone to appear no afterpiece to the truth.
Most bodies who are afraid up on the bewilderment of who Satoshi is or was would accept that it would be best for Bitcoin if his character was never discovered. And yet they cannot abide analytic for, to adduce Albert Einstein, “The important affair is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own acumen for existence.”
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