I am now tempted to tell you all who is Satoshi ?

I am James A Donald. I was with Satoshi Nakamoto when he first published the E-Cash Paper in the online forum and mailing list.

I am a Cryptographer, Cipherpunk and Computer Engineer. I developed an interest in e-cash in the early nineties.  I am a professional expert in financial cryptography. When I encountered Satoshi Nakamoto  online I thought he was a young Japanese man of 24 to 30. Later I discovered that he knows much more about financial cryptography and computer science than myself. So I got involved in discussing many things. Never wanted to tell me anything about his real identity.  We exchanged all the information online by forum post and P2P foundation, also in the mailing list.

One day by chance I spotted his IP address. He was careless at the beginning. I used to work for an agents in those days. This agent were interested to find out his real identity.  He found his connection to the Cipherpunk. He just made only one post in the Cipherpunk forum.

First, I thought he was from Russia but later I was convinced that He was a young Japanese man but I was wrong.  Thereafter Hal Finney jumped on in our discussion. Hal and I were in the forum for many years, I mean in the mailing list.

He wrote me more than 270 emails over the two years.  I collected all his posts as I was assigned to do that by my agent. Satoshi called himself Cyberpunk instead of Cipherpunk. He was not happy with the traditional financial system, mainly the banking services.  On one occasion he mentioned that he wanted to borrow just £20 thousand Pound Sterling to set up a business but the bank didn't give him the loan. On another occasion he told me that he was sending about £50 Pound to one of his relatives and the bank charged £19 pound fees from him. I was convinced he was from a commonwealth country and migrated to the UK or was a student in the UK.

I was right in my assumption. I discovered his IP and I was sure about his identity. When I told him about my finding, he did not reply to me for two weeks. I thought was angry with me and got offline but that was not correct. I was wrong. He was on a holiday in his native land. He was from the Asian Continent. But not from Japan. On another occasion he told me that He has a close connection to Hokkaido Island.

Then I was confused. Later Satroshi told me a story. A story of World War II. Hisd grandfather was a strategist who fought in World War II. He never told which side his grandfather fought and where he was in the war ?  Satoshi told me that he was a student of political economics and he was involved in the creation of a single currency called Euro which was launched in 1999.  I have no clues in what capacity he was involved in the creation of the Euro ?  But later I discovered that Euro was created by him as a EuroBond first in the year 1994. Later it was accepted in the Madrid EEC convention and adopted as the EU Single currency in 1995 and it took 4 years to launch in 1999. Satoshi Nakamoto is a British and a commonwealth citizen.
It means he is not English but has a close link to the British commonwealth. On one occasion he asked me if I was interested to know more about the commonwealth ?  I  was not interested.

Yes, ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ is not his real name but it is his pseudonym. He never told me his real name but  I managed to find his identity as I was working for an agent, who was paying me for information. I was wrong for disclosing his identity to an agent. I regret the mistakes I made. I am really sorry for my own mistakes and I told Satoshi about it in November 2010. Then Satoshi asked me to contact him no more. Later he gave the project to Gavin Bell (Andresen) and others who were more trusted by him.  He moved and asked me to retire from active discussion online. Thereafter we discuss all things privately. Satoshi is still surrounded and sometimes visits the forum and mailing list.

Satoshi will come back again but may not be in the forum but some whereelse online.

Exactly what came into my mind. The name is too straightforward because even complex names get deciphered. And for someone who wants privacy to the extent we haven’t heard from him since the beginning? The story may sound good and interesting but I don’t trust anything because people have different theories on about who Satoshi is. In fact all the confident claims is just enough already. For me, it’s as simple as that Bitcoin exists.

Yeah, I agree.

That's how humans brains work though. They are always trying to explain what they perceive, even if it doesn't make sense.

I think that is what is happening here. People are looking for patterns where there aren't any.

No one truly knows the real world identity of Satoshi. These are all wild speculations having no basis in reality.


Patterns for me are everywhere

It's just for verification and it's true that if he really wants to be Satoshi I think he just has to activate the account and make a thread that he is Satoshi if he really wants to be recognised because after all we must know that for now what supports being recognised as Satoshi is an account that is on bitcointalk at this time so if indeed people out there including some big names who always adorn the media by claiming or being considered Satoshi they only need to activate the account by writing that he is Satoshi then there will definitely be no arguments about it.

But until now it cannot be done which means that people who claim or are considered Satoshi will in fact remain faketoshi because no matter how hard they try to prove themselves on some social media or with evidence that is claimed to be able to convince that they are Satoshi, it will still be considered a doubt because there will definitely be many cons that occur.

I totally agree with you. Maybe at first when you learn a few things about bitcoin you wish you could knew who Satoshi is/are but then if you actually understand all the ideas behind bitcoin and how it can really change the way we manage money, you should simply respect his/their decision to be anonymous and left alone. I know some people love trying to solve these types of mysteries, I hope they'll never succeed.

Greg Maxwell is undoubtebly one of the most knowleadgeable people on the field. I really enjoy reading his posts. I have learnt a lot from him. We are lucky to have him. Of course the list is not limited to him.

If I had to choose one of his papers that I really liked (to the point at which I could understand it):

Simple Schnorr Multi-Signatures with Applications to Bitcoin
G. Maxwell, A. Poelstra, Y. Seurin, P. Wuille,
IEEE Designs Codes and Cryptography, 2019.

They could be doing that or maybe not, but the good thing is that they created BTC in such a way that it does not matter what they do, the network runs perfectly without the creator or any central authority; that is the beauty of BTC. Satoshi is a genius to create something like BTC, and if he wanted to be around and make himself known for all the praises, he would have done that, but he instead completely protected his privacy and never exposed it, and so it is better if we respect that.

This is always an issue that receives a lot of our attention, and it will be more exciting when the market is showing signs of positive activity, curiosity and suspicion about Satoshi Nakamoto keep recurring.
I had my share of opinions and didn't really want to commit myself to detective work  Re: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Even if someone comes out now and claims to have complete proof of Satoshi, the crowd will not believe that it is really the person we expect. Sometimes it really feels like life is clouded by doubts, find for the truth and doubting the truth.

I had a look at the Blockstream website and some other things he was involved with, I have to say his CV is impressive. In his own way he has contributed a lot to the crypto community.

That certainly is one of the many rumours out there. Hal and several others have been named as Satoshi but I guess we will never know for sure who was behind Satoshi Nakamoto.

There is a possibility that any government agency that was determined to unravel the mystery behind Satoshi had already done it because of all the powerful tools at their disposal but again, we do not know.