Rainy, long weekend, time to go down the rabbit hole again. Let's forget about the usual suspects (Hal Finney, Nick Szabo, CW, etc.) and discuss 3 other candidates, some of them I haven't even heard about until today.
1. Adam Back
"He doesn't cash out because he got involved with companies that profit off the current state of Bitcoin and makes his millions that way. If suddenly wallets that hold a huge amount of Bitcoin start cashing out, even slowly, it might trigger a crash simply from sheer panic. There's (some) stability in having that much locked away.
Those massive holdings are also, effectively, leverage. He holds an enormous part of the entire crypto-economy in his back pocket, able to be used at any time he needs it.
It also allowed him to imply that Satoshi was no longer active and, in effect, mythologized him. Now "Satoshi" isn't a guy who might give an interview, express an agenda (or be condemned for that agenda), he's a figurehead who can be used as needed by his disciples. Since Back's companies profit off of Bitcoin as it exists, it also makes it far harder for anyone to try and fork the whole thing to make it function better. After all "that isn't what Satoshi would have wanted".
YT video, the meat starts around 24 mins:
2. Paul Le Roux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux#Satoshi_Nakamoto_candidate
"Lots of evidence pointing to this, especially the online drug trade and his vast amounts of experience with encryption coding.
Satoshi stopped posting online at the same time he was arrested."
3. Len Sassaman
"He committed suicide two months after Satoshi said he's not going to be around in the future. He writes British English even though he's American, is an academic, and he lived in Belgium at the time, which matches the time zone when Satoshi was active in forums. There's also a memorial to him embedded in the Blockchain. Furthermore, the project he's famous for (anonymous remailers) has a distributed architecture that's very similar to Bitcoin."
https://news.bitcoin.com/the-many-facts-pointing-to-cypherpunk-len-sassaman-being-satoshi-nakamoto/
1. Adam Back
"He doesn't cash out because he got involved with companies that profit off the current state of Bitcoin and makes his millions that way. If suddenly wallets that hold a huge amount of Bitcoin start cashing out, even slowly, it might trigger a crash simply from sheer panic. There's (some) stability in having that much locked away.
Those massive holdings are also, effectively, leverage. He holds an enormous part of the entire crypto-economy in his back pocket, able to be used at any time he needs it.
It also allowed him to imply that Satoshi was no longer active and, in effect, mythologized him. Now "Satoshi" isn't a guy who might give an interview, express an agenda (or be condemned for that agenda), he's a figurehead who can be used as needed by his disciples. Since Back's companies profit off of Bitcoin as it exists, it also makes it far harder for anyone to try and fork the whole thing to make it function better. After all "that isn't what Satoshi would have wanted".
YT video, the meat starts around 24 mins:
2. Paul Le Roux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux#Satoshi_Nakamoto_candidate
"Lots of evidence pointing to this, especially the online drug trade and his vast amounts of experience with encryption coding.
Satoshi stopped posting online at the same time he was arrested."
3. Len Sassaman
"He committed suicide two months after Satoshi said he's not going to be around in the future. He writes British English even though he's American, is an academic, and he lived in Belgium at the time, which matches the time zone when Satoshi was active in forums. There's also a memorial to him embedded in the Blockchain. Furthermore, the project he's famous for (anonymous remailers) has a distributed architecture that's very similar to Bitcoin."
https://news.bitcoin.com/the-many-facts-pointing-to-cypherpunk-len-sassaman-being-satoshi-nakamoto/
