ok thanks! i found the record. next step would be to contact the investigator and ask him.
is it difficult to fake a death in the US? i mean you have no registration record of the existens of a human as far as i know. just the driver license, right?
Are you asking whether there is a US centralized government database with proof of his existence?
If so, I guess you could argue that the Social Security Administration would confirm his existence,
since they would have issued a Social Security Number at birth, and then terminated that number
after they receive some confirmation of his death or death certificate.
But ultimately, I'm sure Kleiman is dead. Faking someone's death and having the medical provable
backstory with years of medical pain and suffering BEFORE bitcoin was even that valuable, would be
amazing foresight and pre-planning of the likes of a time traveler.
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It's also possible that Kleiman wrote the first version of the Bitcoin code, and that CW took over testing, bug fixing, and future development. Kleiman could have written the code, while CW could have been the "Satoshi" that communicated extensively with Gavin and others...
If your theory is considered to be true, why didn't CSW continue talking to Gavin and others?
Why would CSW disappear? Also there are issues with whether CSW even really understands
certain aspects of Bitcoin/bitcoin and how it actually functions and its shortfalls.
It would be more likely (IMO) that Kleiman, if was Satoshi, was in communication with Gavin and others.