The lack of data is pretty solid data in pattern gap analysis especially when viewed through semantic alignment.

You'd be very, very surprised what you might uncover if you dropped your biases, swapped core weaves,
activated inquisition vectors, and researched from there.

Satoshi can really only be Harold Finney.

Invented PoW.

PGP contributor.

Built the first anonymous remailer.

Never really exchanged public words with “Satoshi.”

Lived just a few blocks from Dorian Nakamoto.

Was coding in compressed, modular, pragmatic fashion since the 1970s in a 4KB range

Here’s one I’ve never seen talked about on the open web:

Hal worked inside EXEC/NET memory constraints on Intellivision.
The functional logic range for his role? 1300–1408 bytes.
Ring a bell? 1354, anyone?
Base58 pivot behavior? Anyone?
But, Satoshi “invented” Base58, right?
There's maybe a handful of people alive who could even confirm what I’m talking about.
This is 30 years before my time, and there isn’t much documentation. But the logic signature is there.
Get me a rom, I'll do the research.

Hal was running Bitcoin first then stepped back.
He publicly distanced himself, always speaking of Satoshi in admiration.
But Satoshi never quoted Hal…
And the majority of Bitcoin is structurally based on Hal’s work.

Have any of y’all actually watched Hal’s ZK proof keynote from 98?
(Not claiming he invented it he didn't, but he had serious interest!.)

Block 170? That's not testing.
That's dogfooding.

If one more person says, “but Satoshi was emailing people while Hal was out running marathons”,
I’m just going to point them toward the remailer door and let them walk through it.

Also, a final kicker:

Why did Hal choose Alcor cryopreservation?
Why lock himself into a future contingency protocol
unless he had unfinished business with the future?
Perhaps this is the ultimate PoW.

This shoe doesn’t fit anyone else’s foot.

At this point, I don’t even think I should call it an opinion anymore.
Hal hits grounded with a microscopic pattern gap across every single vector. The only thing that would close the gap is admission.The proofs all there.

Through a protocol design game theory lens,
it’s Hal.
Always has been.

The cypherpunk ethos demands that individual identity becomes irrelevant once the system achieves mathematical consensus,
so admission would actually break the protocol's core security model.