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Re: Satoshi - Sirius emails 2009-2011
by
nullama
on 25/02/2024, 02:10:21 UTC
~snip~
Sorry, this seems to coincide with Hal Finney as he had ALM and only lived 2-5 years. This makes me more confident that Hal Finney is Satoshi Nakamoto. If this is true, Satoshi was truly great when he spent the last time of his life developing Bitcoin.

Satoshi mentions Hal here (and other places):

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Hal sort of alluded to the possibility that it could be seen as a
long-odds investment.  I would be surprised if 10 years from now
we're not using electronic currency in some way, now that we know
a way to do it that won't inevitably get dumbed down when the
trusted third party gets cold feet.

I just don't see how Satoshi would create a second persona, specially given how much he wanted to reduce duplicity of things.

For example, Satoshi went with the most permissive type of license because otherwise someone else would implement it, duplicating effort.

It just doesn't make sense in my mind. Hal was involved, but Hal was not Satoshi as far as I can see with the public evidence.