Not quite sure what skills you are referring to. The skills of staying pseudonymous are not that difficult -- Use throw-away email address, connect via tor, us

Not quite sure what skills you are referring to. The skills of staying pseudonymous are not that difficult -- Use throw-away email address, connect via tor, use porn-mode and web interfaces for mail, identify yourself only with PGP signatures. These things will keep your identity away from anybody who isn't a government. As for Bitcoin itself, it is not nearly as complicated as people imagine. It certainly does not take anything like an expert in security to understand or implement. It is very clever, don't get me wrong, but it requires almost no understanding of cryptography. Any competent programmer could implement/devise it easily. Also, when I was curious about who Satoshi might be, I looked at the source code and the initial development forum. Based on that, I can pretty much say with confidence that the people who are trying to find out who he is, haven't done so :-P Not that it says who he is, but let's just say that it narrows the field pretty well... To be honest, the reason nobody knows who Satoshi is relates a lot more to the fact that nobody with the skills to find such a person is looking.