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Re: What if ... S. Nakamoto lost all priv. key and can't use "his" btc?
by
zivone
on 01/12/2015, 04:02:59 UTC
Where did all this talk of him 'dying' come from?

Well, nobody has any conclusive evidence that he as a person even exists. It is equally likely that 'he' is actually a group of people.


Thanks to this thread I finally googled about S. Nakamoto and all the while I thought he was a real person. Now I wonder what kind of people are behind the creation of this bitcoin or what are their agenda if there is.

On his P2P Foundation profile, Nakamoto claimed to be a 37-year-old male who lived in Japan, but some speculated he was unlikely to be Japanese due to his use of perfect English and his bitcoin software not being documented or labelled in Japanese.

Some considered Nakamoto might be a team of people; Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher who read the bitcoin code, said that Nakamoto could either be a "team of people" or a "genius"; Laszlo Hanyecz, a former bitcoin core developer who had emailed Nakamoto, had the feeling the code was too well designed for one person