>my personal suspicion is that Satoshi is a group of individuals, making such an analysis almost impossible I agree. My bet is at least two: one theory heavy "

>my personal suspicion is that Satoshi is a group of individuals, making such an analysis almost impossible I agree. My bet is at least two: one theory heavy "ideas guy" and one more software engineering oriented programmer who did the heavy lifting on implementation. And I have also noticed that these types of analysis are for single authored documents. I suspect it will stay a secret for a long time... maybe we'll get some deathbed confessions in a few decades.