Is he still alive?

Let's follow the clue,

Explore the truth behind the fog.

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Clue combing

To find Satoshi Nakamoto, we need to sort out Satoshi Nakamoto's whereabouts on the Internet:

On June 1 65438+1October12008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper entitled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" on the cryptology mailing list of metzdowd.com website.

On June 38, 2009+October 3, 2009/kloc-0, Satoshi Nakamoto excavated the first block in the history of bitcoin, namely the Genesis block, which realized the "mining" of bitcoin algorithm and obtained the first batch of 50 bitcoins.

20 10 February 5, 10, Wikileaks leaked American diplomatic cables. In order to protect bitcoin in its infancy and avoid conflicts and disputes, Satoshi Nakamoto seems to oppose the donation of bitcoin to Wikileaks by the bitcoin community.

On 20 10 12 12, Satoshi Nakamoto published his last article in the bitcoin forum. After that, he stopped making public appearances and only contacted several people in the bitcoin core development team by email.

2065438+01April 26th, after contacting Gavin andresen, the head of the core development team of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto immediately closed his email and never contacted anyone again.

As can be seen from the above information, Satoshi Nakamoto is very low-key, and there are few traces that can be traced online. He insisted on using PGP encryption and Tor network to communicate with anyone, and the clues of renting the server all pointed to a small host provider providing anonymous service in Helsinki, Finland. In that era when network communication was still underdeveloped, these cautious and meticulous measures enabled Satoshi Nakamoto to successfully escape the pursuit of the authorities.

Satoshi Nakamoto's technical caution also extends to the expression of personal information. According to the information currently available, Satoshi Nakamoto probably deliberately forged some identity information and personalized characteristics in order to weaken the personal characteristics that individuals inadvertently showed in white papers and community speeches. There are many such examples. For example, Satoshi Nakamoto's registration information on the P2Pfoundation website on February 1 1 2009 shows that he is a 43-year-old Japanese male, but it is somewhat puzzling that his email address is on the German free email server. Another example is disguised English spelling, Greenwich Mean Time routines, Japanese names, the first person of "we" in the paper, using uncommon technical terms, imitating the writing style of cryptography colleagues, etc ... Satoshi Nakamoto's careful operation has achieved good results. Now no one knows his true identity, and there are dozens of candidates just guessed by the public. So is Satoshi Nakamoto among these candidates? Let's continue to analyze

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Candidate screening

Among the candidates mentioned in the previous section, Satoshi Nakamoto candidates who are relatively well-known or reliable are as follows:

1. Dorian prentiss Satoshi Nakamoto:

2. Shinichi Mochizuki

Hal finney

Hal Finney can be said to be one of the pioneers of Bitcoin. He is the second person after Satoshi Nakamoto to use BTC mining software, submit bug reports and put forward suggestions for improvement. In addition, in order to test the trading function, Satoshi sent him 10 bitcoins, so he and Satoshi Nakamoto successfully completed the first bitcoin transaction. Hal and Satoshi Nakamoto have many similarities in their writing styles. Unfortunately, Hal suffered from gradual freezing and died in 20 14. Hal repeatedly denied that he was Satoshi Nakamoto's Satoshi Nakamoto candidate. In an article I found, the author said that he had talked with Hal's good friend Phillip Zimmerman (two inventors of email encryption algorithm PGP), and his answer was "Hal said he wasn't, but I believed him."

4. Nick Saab

Nick szabo, co-founder of Global Finance. Like Hal Finney, he is a pioneer of Bitcoin and a candidate of Satoshi Nakamoto. It has been speculated that he wrote a paper on Bitcoin under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto in Satoshi Nakamoto. Nick Saber also has a title: "Father of Smart Contracts". As early as 1995, he published the article "Implementation of Contract Law in Network Security" and put forward the concept of "intelligent contract".

In 2008, when no one had heard of Satoshi Nakamoto and the bitcoin he created, Nick mentioned the idea of Bitgold on his personal blog. There are many striking similarities between Nick's description of Bitgold and Satoshi Nakamoto's description of Bitcoin, including similar wording and even writing habits. Later, someone compared his writing style with that of Satoshi Nakamoto, claiming that among all the candidates, Nick Saab has the highest similarity with Satoshi Nakamoto. Nevertheless, Nick has always denied that he is the real Satoshi Nakamoto. He wrote in the article: "Only Hal Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto have enough willpower to really implement this plan".

Craig steve wright

Craig steve wright, also known as Satoshi Aomoto, is an Australian entrepreneur. Unlike the above candidates, CW jumped out and admitted that he was Satoshi Nakamoto. In my opinion, CW is a capitalist who is good at hype. The dispute between BSV and BCH has never stopped, which is completely different from Satoshi Nakamoto before.

Satoshi Nakamoto presented many suspicious evidences to prove that he was "Satoshi Nakamoto". I think there are only two most convincing evidences: one is that Satoshi Nakamoto sent an email to Dave Kreman, and the other is that after claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, Satoshi Nakamoto met Gavin Anderson, the core developer of Bitcoin at that time. Satoshi Nakamoto easily gained the trust of Gavin Anderson, and made him publicly endorse and admit that he was Satoshi Nakamoto.

The above behavior shows that Satoshi Nakamoto has a lot of information about Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto, thus winning the trust of Gavin Anderson. But if you want to prove yourself, things don't have to be so complicated at all. As long as CW can sign with the key of Genesis Block, or log in to Satoshi Nakamoto's account to confirm your identity, then the identity of this Satoshi Nakamoto can basically be settled. As for whether CW is Satoshi Nakamoto, only he knows the answer.

Dave Kreman

Dave taught himself computer encryption, which is consistent with Satoshi Nakamoto's experience. Its military background also explains why Satoshi Nakamoto can do a good job in the investigation of anti-government departments. As for why Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared, comparing with the time node, Dave Kreman was infected with a superbug at the end of 20 10 and died of superbug complications on April 26th, 20 13, which seems to make sense. Unfortunately, Dave has passed away, and this seemingly most reasonable candidate cannot be verified.

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Everyone is Satoshi Nakamoto.

So who's Satoshi Nakamoto? These seemingly possible people above deny themselves or cannot be verified for various reasons. Personally, I tend to think that Satoshi Nakamoto is dead. Even though he didn't die, according to his original idea, Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity was never the most important.

In contrast, in today's BTC and cryptocurrency circles, it doesn't matter who is Satoshi Nakamoto or everyone is Satoshi Nakamoto.

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