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Re: Thoughts on Hal Finney/Craig Wright being Satoshi?
by
jootn2kx
on 26/10/2019, 07:32:22 UTC
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.

I believe that pretty much everyone agrees that Craig Wright is a liar, but I don't think that Finney was Satoshi either. First BTC transaction was sent to Finney, if memory serves, and I don't believe that Satoshi would just send the money to himself and reveal his identity along the way. It might be a reverse psychology type of thing, but I'm not buying it.