Quote from: FinneysTrueVision on October 18, 2024, 06:37:45 AM

Quote from: Wind_FURY on October 17, 2024, 09:25:27 AM

Thanks for posting the link! Hal Finney was in my first of potential Satoshi candidates, the second would either be Adam Back or Lens Sassaman, then Nick Szabo. I believe that I have to change my list and remove Hal Finney and replace it with Lens Sassaman as my first, Adam Back as my second, then Nick Szabo.

People assume that Satoshi must be someone whose identity is publicly well known already but that might not be the case at all. If Satoshi cared about his privacy then he would have been careful about not using his real name anywhere and that is why nobody has been able to figure out who they were. It was much easier to hide your identity back then because there wasn’t strict KYC requirements everywhere you turn like there is today.

OR, here's another hypothesis, IF Satoshi is really a group of people, THEN it would make actual sense to make everyone believe that he/she is one person and hide the fact that they are a group. And by hiding that fact, if one of the Satoshis was exposed, then the other Satoshis could merely sign a message from a key known to be associated with Satoshi or an old forum account to say That person is not Satoshi".

If it was a group of people, then there was probably two or perhaps three of them?