I'll be honest, I suspect that Satoshi was either Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, or both working together. We'll never know for sure though.
On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, 5:31 pm mark M, <write2ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Georgi > That’s a great test 🙏👍 > > Tom > The personal identity of Satoshi over time as you say is very nuanced much > like dpr of Silk road as multiple characters over time took the mantle of > dpr > > But even with all of the dprs Ross Ulbricht was definitely doxed by the > feds > Just worried there’s the very first og Satoshi who might still be around > > On Jul 3, 2018 at 8:49 PM, <Tom Busby <tom@busby.ninja>> wrote: > > Tbf there are no (spendable) accounts which are known to be Satoshi for > sure. > > There's the genesis block reward (not spendable due to a quirk in the > protocol), the address Satoshi used to send the first transaction to Hal > Finney (was this really Satoshi? We don't know for sure) and there are a > bunch of blocks that we strongly suspect were mined by Satoshi due to their > characteristics (mainly the incrementing nonce value). > > Something signed with the genesis block reward address's private key would > be best proof... But still not perfect, since we don't really even know if > Satoshi was the same person over time, or if the same person operated all > the Satoshi email/forum accounts. > > I don't believe this new pretender really is Satoshi though (or, > hypothetically, any of the people who spoke as "Satoshi") because the > writing style is way off. Satoshi was never a mystic. Satoshi never spoke > in grand narratives either, just engineering pragmatism. > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, 4:42 pm Georgi Guninski, <gunin...@guninski.com> > wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:56:19PM +0200, Tom Busby wrote: >> > Satoshi actually never, ever signed anything cryptographically. >> > >> No problem. As a proof of identity I request 1337.7331 bitcoins from one >> of their accounts ;) >> >>