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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @zodthebarbarian 15 Aug 2023 \ on: Hal Finney walked around with Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged bitcoin
Is he Satoshi?
"But in following the clues that led me to Finney, I found something equally significant: a dying man who had been something like a far-more-brilliant Forrest Gump of cryptographic history: a witness to and participant in practically every important moment in the recent history of secret-keeping technologies."
Seems possible. Somebody like that, someone that capable, with such a brilliant mind, able to see so far in to things, might not need to take credit for all their successes. Hal was familiar with the benefits of anonymity, he would've known absolute secrecy was for the best.
Unsurprisingly, Finney is one of the most popular candidates for Satoshi, though this implies that Finney faked his extensive email interactions with Satoshi and simultaneously contributed to Bitcoin under both his real name and a separate fake identity. Finney would also continue to work on Bitcoin well after Satoshi had “moved on” in 2011.
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