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Satoshi Nakamoto indeed deserves it but we are still not sure if Satoshi Nakamoto is only one person or a group of people, we will not know this at the moment. And another thing is can we award a noble prize to a person that is anonymous or unidentified?
Overall, whoever and whenever Satoshi Nakamoto now is, he/they are really proud on Bitcoin now.
That is the main issue really:
The prize, as in this instance, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is never awarded anonymously nor posthumously.
It seems that Satoshi Nakamoto has been nominated already:
Although UCLA Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry chose to nominate the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, for the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, it appears The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will not consider the nomination unless the legendary Nakamoto were to reveal his identity.
I think it's safe to say that Satoshi will forever remain anonymous.