https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2813.msg39045#msg39045I read all of Hal's posts and one of them really caught my attention. On January 15, 2011, he suggested to raise bitcoins to send Satoshi to the Financial Cryptography conference. Right after, one of the participants said that Satoshi would hardly accept because he wanted to remain anonymous. This was obvious to everyone on the forum. Why would Hal suggest this? He was an experient cypherpunk who communicated with Satoshi in early days of the project, and obviously knew that Satoshi was a pseudonym. This sounds really strange.
It is vey strange indeed and I might guess that he was trying to get Satoshi (whoever he is) to attend because of his novel invention.
But who knows why he posted that.
It would indeed be weird if he was referring to himself in the third person, because I do not know who is able to put up with that for so long.