interesting!!! BTC
Tatsuaki Okamoto was a good candidate, but he had to be ruled due to his location during the months Satoshi was active online...
Satoshi said he started creating Bitcoin in 2007....(The creation of Bitcoin is below, you don't have to make any guesses or assumptions, it's all there with the links to back it up)
2007
Zooko quote: I want to invent something else: a truly decentralized economic mechanism. Research that points in this direction includes the sub-field of algorithmic mechanism design within economic game theory, some peer-to-peer research such as GNUnet, Wei Dais and Nick Szabos ideas about bit gold, Nick Szabos smart contracts, and much more. Another inspiration is BitTorrents tit-for-tat mechanism, which is decentralized and minimal, but gets the job done within its limited problem domain.
https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2007-June/000022.html https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2007-June/000025.htmlhttp://web.archive.org/web/20010331105544/http://zooko.com/2007 Szabo applies BitGold and his Scarce Object theory to Zookos p2p hard drive project with "Nanobarter" (together this creates Bitcoin)
Szabo: One possible answer to central mint vulnerability is bit gold a currency the value of which does not depend on any particular trusted third party. Another alternative is (an object barter economyScarce Objects).
http://web.archive.org/web/20070625154046/http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20070618142414/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/scarce.html*Ray Dillenger (Bear) quote: Look, (Satoshi) was a construction made explicitly for the purpose of launching Bitcoin
That purpose is fulfilled. The person who created (Satoshi) has no further need for him. Thus ends the story.