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Re: What are the implications of Hal being Satoshi?
by
Baofeng
on 15/07/2021, 17:18:33 UTC
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 as one of the first bitcoin miners, and certainly the first known individual to interact with SN. 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.

This doesn't proved anything, it just so happened that someone has to mine bitcoin and Hal did it.

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.

Dorian Nakamoto? Perhaps it was jus coincidence that Hal and Dorian Nakamoto lived close together. And it's pretty much normal, it's California, many tech companies are around that place.

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 not technologies that I am aware of that can restore data on drives that have been wiped several times over, so perhaps he relied more on a brain scan for future proof..

And probably that's where they met each other in the cyber punk mailing list, and then correspondence and mutual respect.

I know Satoshi's story is very interesting to dig and analyse. But we can't find a proof that Hal Finney is Satoshi Nakamoto.