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I don't buy it. Satoshi Nakamoto was most likely Hal Finney. 1) Finney lived in very close to Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto (who happened to be unrelated to Bitcoin)

I don't buy it. Satoshi Nakamoto was most likely Hal Finney. 1) Finney lived in very close to Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto (who happened to be unrelated to Bitcoin) - it's possible that he used his name. 2) Finney was the first person to perform a bitcoin transaction with Satoshi Nakamoto 3) Satoshi Nakamoto stopped writing messages after Finney died There are a few other reasons I'm forgetting, but the coincidences are too many. Interestingly, Hal Finney had himself cryopreserved. He may have invented Bitcoin, to get resurrected 150 years later...

kleer001 9y ago
> to get resurrected 150 years later... After which we will be in a post scarcity society and money will be meaningless.
drexlspivey 9y ago
So in all those discussions they had, he was talking to himself? Why would he do that? Also satoshi stopped writing in 2010 and Finney died in 2014
- Avshalom 9y ago
  I have no idea what the conversations were like because I don't pay much attention to bitcoin (and less to the history) outside of HN but presenting things as dialogue is often more engaging and effective than monologue. Even in monologue exposition people often pose themselves rhetorical questions. As an example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Chief_World_Systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_...
  - berberous 9y ago
    Finney gave the WSJ a bunch of private emails between him and Satoshi from 2009, linked below. I suppose it's theoretically possible Finney spent a lot of time faking this convincing set of emails, but absent that possibility, I think this seals the case that Satoshi was not Finney. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynakamotoemails.pdf http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynakam...
Edmond 9y ago
*Hal Finney had himself cryopreserved. I read that as: cryptopreserved.
- mongrol 9y ago
  I read it as AL Finney who played a character in Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus who had himself cryopreserved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Lazarus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Lazarus
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kleer001 9y ago

> to get resurrected 150 years later... After which we will be in a post scarcity society and money will be meaningless.

drexlspivey 9y ago

So in all those discussions they had, he was talking to himself? Why would he do that? Also satoshi stopped writing in 2010 and Finney died in 2014

Avshalom 9y ago
I have no idea what the conversations were like because I don't pay much attention to bitcoin (and less to the history) outside of HN but presenting things as dialogue is often more engaging and effective than monologue. Even in monologue exposition people often pose themselves rhetorical questions. As an example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Chief_World_Systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_...
- berberous 9y ago
  Finney gave the WSJ a bunch of private emails between him and Satoshi from 2009, linked below. I suppose it's theoretically possible Finney spent a lot of time faking this convincing set of emails, but absent that possibility, I think this seals the case that Satoshi was not Finney. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynakamotoemails.pdf http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynakam...

Edmond 9y ago

*Hal Finney had himself cryopreserved. I read that as: cryptopreserved.

mongrol 9y ago
I read it as AL Finney who played a character in Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus who had himself cryopreserved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Lazarus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Lazarus

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