Following onto: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5349129.0 , but a more specific question:

What are the implications of Hal Finney being Satoshi Nakamoto?

- But first, why think Hal was SN?

Hal started with bitcoin. His posts were always as informative as Satoshi's. He had to quit work due to ALS in 2011, the same time that Satoshi quit. He knew he had ALS for several years before. He had the knowledge to program these things. That sort of knowledge would possibly give a person a not-give-a-shit attitude about their own life, mining for the 'good of humanity', and perhaps set aside some for their own family.

Hal fit the sleep profile of SN. Hal lived downstreet from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. It isn't too strange to consider that Hal would consider putting false clues out. SN was a pseudonym, so bitcoin started with that deceit.

Hal was a classic 'cypherpunk' and idealist who would change the world. After all, Hal froze his body in the belief that some future technology might be able to restore his life or read his brain. Perhaps that was his way of allowing people to question him in the future? He could have hid it very well. There are technologies that I am aware of that can restore data on drives

- What are the implications?

I'm not sure there are any. Hal would be known as an early bitcoiner, so would have already had threats to his family. In terms of throwing him into disrepute, this gentleman is dead and had ALS. Bad press is hard to push about the dead while promoting them as visionaries.

I'm certain that this possibility (Hal being SN, and dead) is what was considered before people claim to be Satoshi, since they expect that no one would come forth to disprove them. So, one possibility is that we may have more people claim to be Satoshi, yet, we may never know the whole truth.

Are there any implications that I'm missing?