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I'm extremely curious in understanding why he wanted to be anonymous when publishing his idea of Bitcoin. Nobody could possibly have anticipated that Bitcoin wo
by sktrdie 13y ago
I'm extremely curious in understanding why he wanted to be anonymous when publishing his idea of Bitcoin. Nobody could possibly have anticipated that Bitcoin would become the most used crypto-currency today. Many experts from the cryptography mailing list were quick at discarding his idea from the beginning, so I can't imagine Satoshi wanting to remain anonymous in case Bitcoin would become a billion dollar business and people would start going after him for his money. This is why I believe Satoshi is probably just some brilliant person who's name is actually Satoshi Nakamoto (not Dorian).
- fchollet 13y agoThere are not that many people named Satoshi Nakamoto, a few hundreds, and we have the complete list. A number of journalists (most lately NYT's Hiroko Tabuchi) have looked into these people, and found no match (if you ignore Dorian, who has clearly nothing to do with BTC).
- sentenza 13y agoMaybe it is the other way round. He didn't want to damage his professional reputation which could have happened if important and vocal members of the crypto community had declared that they thought the project ridiculous. Just like Carlo Pedersoli renamed himself Bud Spencer so as not to damage his good reputation as an olympian athlete with his movies.