bill bags,
many hundreds of people were and are trying to create money every day. and the entity known of satoshi DID gather idea's, concepts and theories from many sources. such as hal finney and nick szabo. but it was only satoshi that put all of these idea's together into its unique and beautiful functional form that we know today.
this does not mean that satoshi was these people, nor does it mean that he knew these other people personally, nor does it prove that these people used his username.
imagine the conspiracy theorists trying to assume identification of satoshi, like trying to identify the creator of a car. by knowing the cave man invented fire by burning oil, or making the wheel. to then say that without the "combustion" element or the wheel, a car would notexist, thus the inventor of the car was assumed by these conspiracy theorists to be a caveman.
now that you have understood that although combustion and wheel technology has been around for thousands of years. it wasnt until the 19th century that someone invented the car by utilizing other peoples experiments, inventions and skills, without even having to know or speak to the inventors of the original elements that built up a car.
all we can be certain with is that 'satoshi' did collaborate with a few people like hal finney. and also grab other existent theories and code from other sources. but it was as i already said, only the entity known as satoshi that put it all together beautifully
Maybe Hal Finney Hired his neighbor, Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto to help him create bitcoin,
because Hal was getting crippled, and needed some help?
Highly suspect that Hal Finney and Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto both lived in Temple City California, only 30,000 population, out of all the whole world, those two lived that close to each other.
Someone should look at past editions of the Temple City newspaper and see if Hal Finney advertised locally for someone to help him with his project? Never know, might be something there.
Maybe Satoshi replied to the ad and got hired?
I don't know, maybe Satoshi and Hal Finney knew each other for years, which is highly possible,
considering they lived in the same small town, and with similar type occupations and perhaps similar type interests.
Maybe they met years ago at a Chapters book store, and were looking in the same section, and they gave each other advice which books were good or not, and became friends long ago
I don't think Finney's ALS was an issue until several years after bitcoin was created (he may have not have even been diagnosed, but I am not sure about this).
I believe it was late 2012 or early 2013 that Finney had sold some of his bitcoin to pay for medical expenses and it appeared that satoshi's bitcoin was linked to silk road because they both were sent to an address at gox.
