I am not sold on the idea that, ....Hal Finney wasn't Satoshi ... 
I think a group of people with one spokesperson was responsible for the development of this experiment and then Hal Finney a member of this group, died. They were all part of the Cypherpunks back in the day, so you might find them if you knew who was behind those people using those Bulletin boards back then. 
The Bitcoin protocol is actually a combination of several different concepts and I think many people shared their expertise and knowledge of these different concepts and combined it into one.
Hal Finney might have stored the Private keys to the million some odd coins, but it is lost now.
I think a group of people with one spokesperson was responsible for the development of this experiment and then Hal Finney a member of this group, died. They were all part of the Cypherpunks back in the day, so you might find them if you knew who was behind those people using those Bulletin boards back then. The Bitcoin protocol is actually a combination of several different concepts and I think many people shared their expertise and knowledge of these different concepts and combined it into one.
Hal Finney might have stored the Private keys to the million some odd coins, but it is lost now.
Neither am I. However, by his own admission Hal wasn't (hence the italics) Satoshi.
Hal did state that he always got the impression that Satoshi was a young man from Japan. Of course this may of been Hal's wit in this regard!
We already know that Bitcoin brought together a working model of numerous previous projects ... Hashcash invented by Adam Back etc.,
A nice new topic on the Cypherpunk's can be found here:
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5163467.0
The Cypherpunk mailing list was perhaps, after all, only somewhere that Satoshi announced Bitcoin to his peers.
We cannot simply ignore years of internet history and 'hacker culture' in "Finding Satoshi". The time lines alone and the other projects and groups some of these individuals started or represented present a plethora of other possibilities. Forgetting and/or distancing from politics and agendas ...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology