Had an interesting conversation today about the hypothetical of Satoshi returning on the scene. But first thing is first. Is Satoshi still alive?
Yes47.8%
No52.2%
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157 sats \ 2 replies \ @nullcount 31 Jul 2022
Satoshi will always be Hal Finney in my book.
Hal received the first transaction from Satoshi and tweeted about the project just days release. What are the odds Satoshi reached out to Hal (or vice/versa) first when he could have contacted dozens of other interested cypherpunks?
Additionally, Satoshi's aire became more somber and bleak in the weeks leading up to his disappearance. Coincidentally, Hal passed shortly after from years of battling disease.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 1 Aug 2022
Satoshi sent an email to a mailing list, and Hal was one of the first people that got interested right away from that group.
Hal Finney made a nice post in bitcointalk explaining his experience with Bitcoin.
It doesn't make too much sense that Satoshi was Hal to be honest. The more you read about what happened in the beginning, the more you realized they were two different people.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 1 Aug 2022
If I was a cryptographer with a nym, I'd also be sure to document the story of my involvement from my "true name" just so there's testimony that provides evidence of separation of my identities.
There's precedent for anonymous founders using their alternative accounts to spread awareness of the project. The first username to mention the Silk Road belonged to Ross, for example.
Plenty of nyms are involved in the same company or organization as their true identity.
Just observations. Satoshi is whoever you want him to be. That's the beauty.
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213 sats \ 4 replies \ @kilianbuhn 31 Jul 2022
My guess is that in 10 years the 1 million sats will slowly be distributed back into the ecosystem with the message "Satoshi has to die so Bitcoin can live" or something like that.
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105 sats \ 1 reply \ @F 31 Jul 2022
There is no point in distributing his coins, even if he did return. Also, there is no proof Satoshi even had access to 1 million bitcoin. By not returning, and by never moving his coins, it makes everyone else's stack that much more valuable.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn 31 Jul 2022
Of course Satoshis Coins increase supply as long as there is no proof they will never move again. It has an influence on supply
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252 sats \ 0 replies \ @allark 31 Jul 2022
1 Million Bitcoin
100 Trillion Sats 🙃
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210 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn 31 Jul 2022
🔮🔮🔮
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79 sats \ 1 reply \ @tech5 31 Jul 2022
I think it could be Sergey Nazarov.
https://twitter.com/sergeynazarov?lang=en
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127 sats \ 0 replies \ @moel 31 Jul 2022
Some random Chainlink shill, really?
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109 sats \ 1 reply \ @LaserStack 31 Jul 2022
Either dead or lost his keys. No way he's been silent for this long voluntarily.
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62 sats \ 0 replies \ @hector 31 Jul 2022
Maybe he just doesn't want a big target on his back. I think I would have done the same. And about his coins, he probably was a wealthy man before bitcoin so he doesn't really need to use them and prefers to "burn" them in order to make bitcoin even more scarce
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37 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cornleone 31 Jul 2022
I think it's a group of people and the 1 million bitcoin will be a gift to humanity
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38 sats \ 0 replies \ @guyfawkes OP 31 Jul 2022
What are the chances that 2 or more people are able to keep their mouth shut? A lot less than one person. Probabilities point to one person using the discoveries of many different people to build the jig saw puzzle that is Bitcoin.
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14 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 1 Aug 2022
Bitcoin has been developed for over a decade now by a large group of people.
But if you read the original posts and software releases from around 2009, you can see that it was pretty much a single, very talented, developer. This is not too uncommon in the world of open source.
I mean, if you have a look at the original release of the software, it was just three files, and not a huge amount of code:
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/code
Yes, the idea was brilliant, but it was also based on a lot of previous works, as usual in science and technology.
It's perfectly possible for Satoshi to be one person.
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @kim 31 Jul 2022
Think so, But if he damaged his hard drives, or moved on to other stuff, who knows if he even was able to do anything. He would be a fool to make himself known now.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @jp 1 Aug 2022
Satoshi likely destroyed his own keys.
If he returned to the scene, he was probably an early miner and is now quietly wealthy.
If Satoshi is alive, they understand the importance of keeping Satoshi anonymous - forever.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @bordalix 1 Aug 2022 freebie
No. Len Sassaman commited suicide on July 3, 2011.
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14 sats \ 0 replies \ @allark 31 Jul 2022
Bet he is also Nicholas Van Saberhagen, the Anonymous creator of the Cryptonote protocol (Monero runs on it) who released it and disappeared.
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6 sats \ 0 replies \ @DogFac3 31 Jul 2022
gotta be Hal’s group
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guyfawkes OP 1 Aug 2022
The wisdom of the crowds has spoken. RIP Satoshi.
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