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Re: Is Satoshi actually Richard Stallman?
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w1R903
on 02/04/2013, 23:53:54 UTC
This video was uploaded at the same time when Bitcoin was launched in Feb 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBMdDaYhZA&t=1h1m4s

Watch the next 2 minutes after the linked time. 1:02:45 is where it's at. Have we found our man?

First, and most important, the original Bitcoin client is MIT-licensed, which makes it very unlikely to be Stallman.  Next, the client is written in C+, which is not a favored language of old school hackers of the Richard Stallman school (C is).  On a related note, C++ is very much the language of academic and researcher types, which makes me think that Satoshi is probably a professor or some other academic or researcher.