What’s your take on the theory that Len Sassaman could have been Satoshi? https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c85c2b10
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Seems very plausible to me. His old Twitter posts critiquing bitcoin seemed kinda half-hearted to me — possible attempts at misdirection IMO.
Makes sense except for . . . his own repeated denials. I was a Len believer for a long time because of the temporal links between Satoshi’s disappearance and Len’s death.
But Hal Finney makes more sense to me these days.
And the most sense of all? “Why would I care?”
one week after bitcoins launch Hal Finney calculated bitcoin's value not based on 21million but based on 20million as if he could magically predicted a 1million locked supply by satoshi 🧐
A week of blocks at 50btc subsidy would only be ~50k bitcoin. Am I missing something?
also Hal Finney's neighbor in Temple City, CA was Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto
excellent write up on why hal was not satoshi
it's Finney or him
I think he has about as good of a case as Hal or atleast very close. So many coincidences.
I’m sure it was him.
Possible and Len was truly fluent in many areas Bitcoin touched. But for some reason I just don't feel it.
I find it very plausible
This was a fascinating read. Thanks for sharing.
Unlikely but plausible
Might be a diversion but Satoshi was using a lot of British idioms like “bloody”, “wet blanket” and the first block references the Financial Times of London. Probably not something an American would do.
I don’t think it’s Adam Back but a combination of two or three people.
The Sassaman thesis is that he did it as part of assimilating to living on the European continent.
But Sassaman did just that… he used ”bloody”, ”flat” etc in tweets. Read the text!
I believe it’s highly plausible, especially considering his published papers on “Solving the Byzantine postman’s problem” in 2007
https://www.academia.edu/264587/Solving_the_Byzantine_Postman_Problem
For what it is worth, I read multiple articles about people speculating who Satoshi might be. This is the only one I find credible.
Most credible narrative ive read so far
I think it's very likely.
What did his next of kin do with his computer after his passing?
It could be very plausible that he was part of it.