Topic: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto and why does he hide in the shadows? - page 2. (Read 2759 times)

This  is just it. Why don't he reveal his identity? . This is the biggest problem with us - Hypocrisy.  
Me too don't like the idea Cryptocurrency developers revealing their identity. It simply not good for decentralized and unhackable Crypto

. This is an anonymous currency and the creator also wants to remain anonymous.

Never knew that there were other cryptocurrencies before bitcoin. I will have to take a closer look into that. Bitcoin was the first successful one it seems.

Satoshi being AI seems doubtful, but it is an interesting idea and fun to think about.

I didn't know he had posted on the forum either. I'll have to check it out.


For those wondering why I care, it is simply curiosity. I don't consider wonder a bad thing. Also, I am very good at my job. It is very mundane at times and thought is great for my entertainment. Is it really a waste of time to question things we will never know the answer to? With that logic we'd never wonder about religion, the meaning of life, if aliens exist, how far the universe goes, or why I view life from my perspective and not somebody else's. I feel it is in my human nature to dwell on such things. Some of you may not be curious, but I think a lot of people, like me, do.

I think its reads like a single male doing something, maybe and english guy? given the Bank of England inclusion, but then this could just be to throw us of.


If it is a person, and they were ever identified, they would never see the light of day again, some black bag organization, or other interests would scoop him up.


Among other things he likely with have access to 1T in the not to distant future.


Satoshi's only option is to stay anon.

Also he seems well smart enough to know this.

I am almost sure he is still on this board though.


For quite some time I thought it was Sunnyking

He currently owns 10% of the total bitcoin supply which can be roughly 2 million bitcoin , he would have surely sold some bitcoin for now and may have 1.5 million left which is worth $4.5 billion which is surely not a less amount and if he discloses himself government agencies may go behind him for unnecessary reasons or he would have revealed himself for now if he didn't do why do you care it's not that he revealing himself would increase price if bitcoin or he will give you some bitcoin so let him live peacefully.

This  is just it. Why don't he reveal his identity . This is the biggest problem with us humans - Hypocricy. 
Me too don't like the idea Cryptocurrency developers revealing their identity. It simply not good for decentralized and unhackable Crypto

While at work today, I've been thinking about who Satoshi Nakamoto could be and why would he keep his identity a secret?

I've thought of three possibilities for keeping his name secret.

1) He is someone who doesn't want to be in the spotlight, because he enjoys his anonymity.
2) His actual identity could ruin the reputation of Bitcoin.
3) Satoshi is a showman and did this to build up suspense for his grand entrance.

I can really understand number 1. Some of the greatest geniuses among us lurk in the shadows. Maybe he doesn't want to be harassed by the press. All the praise could put him on an uneasy pedestal if Bitcoin succeeds. If it fails people may accuse him of running a Ponzi scheme. Yada yada. So much crap could happen. Say goodbye to the private peaceful life.

Number 2 makes sense as well If Satoshi Nakamoto were a criminal it may be harder to get people on board. Who would ever put their trust in a currency created by a criminal. Keeping your name secret here would be much more prudent for business.

Satoshi is clearly innovative enough to come up with this new currency. He surely has the imagination and vision of the future to make a grand revelation at a later date. Number 3 is pretty epic. Everybody loves an epic introduction.


Number 2 makes the most likely to me. Number 1 seems possible too, but even for an introvert who may not want attention, how could you not want people to know what you've contributed to the world? This leads me to believe that Satoshi is most likely a criminal or has a bad reputation somehow. Of course that is just speculation though.


I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Satoshi Nakamoto isn't even Asian. If I were Asian, I would choose an alias that didn't sound Asian. As a non-Asian I may end up picking an Asian alias because it sounds cool.

Another interesting thought. What if Satoshi Nakamoto is an anagram for his real name? I mean, it does make sense right? Cryptography would be right down his alley. Or her alley. Whoa, maybe Satoshi isn't even a guy.


I've been rearranging the letters in "Satoshi Nakamoto" to spell out a name. No luck thus far. Another thing that cryptographers do is they code the letters to stand for other letters. For example: A is really C, because it is two down. K is really M, because it is two down. I've considered writing a program in C++ to maybe solve it through brute force with a list of first names and last names. Given how many computer nerds are out there it wouldn't surprise me if this has been done already however.

Thoughts?

why don't YOU reveal your identity? post your real name here, your home address and with your picture while holding up your drivers license.

you won't do it, and we don't even know if you own bitcoin or not. you may have $10 worth of it.

now how do you expect someone who is speculated to be holding 2.7 billion dollar worth of bitcoin come forward.

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all the privacy aside, i always find the fact that Satoshi is anonymous a nice thing. you see it is the living proof that you can be in bitcoin and you can be anonymous.

besides without Satoshi being anonymous at least 10,000 topics would have never existed in this board

While at work today, I've been thinking about who Satoshi Nakamoto could be and why would he keep his identity a secret?

I've thought of three possibilities for keeping his name secret.

1) He is someone who doesn't want to be in the spotlight, because he enjoys his anonymity.

This is one of the last posts made by Satoshi Nakamoto on this forum, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.29280

From the very beginning itself Satoshi tried to remain as anonymous as possible. Now around 2010, Bitcoin wasn't as popular as today, but still being the creator Satoshi knew it had a huge potential and when WikiLeaks started accepting Bitcoin Satoshi might have realized that:

1. Bitcoin getting attention from WikiLeaks might possibly endanger his anonymity.

2. Bitcoin could also be used for illegal purposes thus not only jeopardizing his privacy/anonymity for being the creator of such a currency, but might also get him into legal trouble.

If he wasn't anonymous the Feds would have charged and locked him up for creating a currency which could be used for illegal purposes.

We don't know exactly how many bitcoins does Satoshi owns, but it definitely would be a substantial amount. If he wasn't anonymous then this amount does possess a threat to not only his life, but also his family's.

Satoshi, be it He/She/Or a group are enjoying their anonymous freedom, let them enjoy it.

Technological changes occur, and we accept them for the most part. It’s hard to blame us; the
changes have been happening so fast that we haven’t really evaluated their ef#ects or weighed their
consequences. "is is how we ended up in a surveillance society. "e surveillance society snuck up on us.
It doesn’t have to be like this, but we have to take charge. We can start
by renegotiating the bargains we’re making with our data. We need to be
proactive about how we deal with new technologies. We need to think
about what we want our technological infrastructure to be, and what values
we want it to embody. We need to balance the value of our data to
society with its personal nature. We need to examine our fears, and decide
how much of our privacy we are really willing to sacrif'ce for convenience.
We need to understand the many harms of overreaching surveillance.
And we need to F!ght back.

https://www.schneier.com/books/data_and_goliath/Data_and_Goliath_Introduction.pdf

He/She is actually a smart guy, the best he did was disappear in the shadows, there will be a lot of criticism on his figure and a lot of pressure, also remain bitcoin decentralized requieres that its founder remain silent, he did great.
sure he is enjoying a great life, maybe his relatives and friends doesnt even known how much he is involved in bitcoin. Maybe he doesnt even owns a Lambo. Maybe he talks in this forum, hidding, smiling.

maybe the inventor has no control of the coins but a bunch of devs do.

thus he may be interested in coming out but has no proof.