Re: Thoughts on Hal Finney/Craig Wright being Satoshi?

Quote from: AtomicLemon_ on October 26, 2019, 04:48:11 AM

Hello everyone! I have some interesting thoughts to put forward about Hal Finney being Satoshi. (I don't know if they are new or not)

I would say that Craig Wright is a liar and maybe Hal Finney is the creator of Bitcoin because:

* Hal Finney died because of complications with ALS in 2014. (Bitcoin was created in 2009)
* Only a dying person has no interest in fame or money and that is why he hid is name and worked for a greater cause, to revolutionise and discourage centralised banking systems.
* Why would someone like Craig Wright try to be 100% private and then all of a sudden become public? He also only became public AFTER Hal Finney's death.

This has been discussed many times. Here's a couple articles that go over it

https://cointelegraph.com/news/who-is-satoshi-the-hal-finney-dorian-nakamoto-connection
https://medium.com/swlh/the-creator-of-bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-is-most-likely-this-guy-8723eddb517c

One has to ask though, did Hal put all this effort into faking emails between the two of them? Not likely IMO.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynakamotoemails.pdf

And then there's one of the writing analysis things that's been done and doesn't prove anything. Hal did not come up as high on the probability.

https://towardsdatascience.com/stylometric-analysis-satoshi-nakamoto-294926cdf995

The only thing that's clear to me based on his own actions, is that it's highly likely CW is not Satoshi.