hal finney

@around78, whoa, that's a brilliant one, alien indeed, but this must be a good alien that put the interest of the earth first, he/they/it deserves the best respect...

@FortuneFollower, this thread is even one of those threads that shouldn't go extinct if I were a moderator, topics like this should always be the first to see for people's consumption and avoid repetition. You hardly see the thread with that huge number of pages, not to mention that it's linked to the main Bitcoin man.

Today I was thinking about the articles on exposing Satoshi. But you know what - I think we will never know who he was. The thing is that only a person who thinks very big and at the same time outside the box could have come up with the blockchain.
Such an idea could have come from someone whose priority is not making money, but an attempt to launch a mechanism for changing the world order by creating new economic rules. And he succeeded. And we are used to those who reveal their identity at the end, but I am sure that the person whose qualities I described above will never come out of the shadows.
He simply does not need it.

Bart Prenee (and David Chaum) both Len Sassamans doctoral advisors but well focus on Bart, co-authored papers with 9 of the 47 people in attendance at the #2 Reference in the Bitcoin whitepaper:

 “[2] H. Massias, X.S. Avila, and J.-J. Quisquater, “Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal trust requirements,” In 20th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, May 1999.”

One of the 47 in attendance was Bart Preneels academic advisor, Joos Vandewalle who was one of the 47 attendees of the whitepaper's [2] reference.

Add in the double spacing used in Lens writings, as well as Lens close relationship with Hal Finney, there’s so many things that line up that in my opinion that keeps Len in the spotlight as a potential Satoshi Nakamoto candidate.

Len also owned a physical copy and was in attendance for the “In 23rd Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux” which I’m guessing was a couple years later.

He’s got a history of using British spellings on his twitter. The same words Satoshi used when communicating: flat, grey, bloody. There’s photographic proof but I can’t add a screenshot for some reason.

Anyways, just more very interesting reading and a rabbit hole to go down. I’ve got screenshots that show examples but not sure how to post them here.

Images:
https://ibb.co/VSR6xZB
https://ibb.co/C9scvsg

The problem with it being Hal Finney or any of the other known characters is that it doesn't add up: why would anybody want to keep it a secret? And why wouldn't they cash in their $60 billion? (Or, if they lost their keys to the 1M Bitcoin, why wouldn't they just say that and help the price of Bitcoin?).

And remember that this wasn't always $60 billion. Even when Bitcoin was at $1000, somebody would have to turn their nose up at $1 billion--or even less. Had the holder of the 1M Bitcoin been alive and owned it personally, they would have started selling when Bitcoin was $100 or less most likely.

For me, the only possibilities that are plausible is that either Satoshi is dead or he is CIA/NSA. Only a government (and frankly, only the US government) could let $60 billion just sit there.

Ah, oh well. Reading through all of Satoshi’s messages makes me think they were Canadian or from the US and studied abroad for awhile.

Part of me thinks the English spelling was intentional misdirection. Satoshi sounds a lol like a Calofornian or west coast USA to me.

The team idea is definitely possible imo. I had a buddy from the Bay Area that went to college in Scotland and then moved to London. He's lived there ever since.

He talks a lot like how Satoshi writes. Sounds American but uses random English words like rubbish. Also inconsistently uses "s" or "z" like Satoshi too.

Whether CIA/NSA/team whatever, I think Satoshi was from the US and just lived overseas for a significant period of time.

Found some interesting posts in the old cypherpunk archives. The anonymous messages in Sep 1999.

It’s very similar to Satoshi.

https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=96968734909750&w=2

There are multiple posts and references to the Crypto 99 conference in Santa Barbara, CA.

I think these posts are from Satoshi.

One message is signed “ECashRumorMonger” lol

Ok… I think Satoshi is Adam Laurie…seriously or Ben Laurie or both

https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100657316822429&w=2

I haven’t found any evidence to definitively say it’s not Adam Back. But he would have had to go to great lengths with emailing himself back and forth and posting replies to himself on the old cypherpunk mailing list and forums

All possible but would be bizarre haha.

This for example:
https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95280154629912&w=2

And these: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-adam-backs-complete-emails-satoshi-nakamoto