I'm really convinced Hal is Satoshi, but am not much interested in investigating it in any way.

The main reason is that I don’t like to see the family of the man who gave the world hope be put on the spotlight or get pressured.

One of the motivations for Hal to hide behind the Satoshi mask was the legal trouble they got into because of PGP. With that experience, the fact that he and Phil Zimmerman went through so much trouble and that for something that didn’t even undermine the Goliath of the central banking, Hal knew better to put his real identity on the line.

Also, when Dorian was put on the spotlight for being Satoshi, the real Satoshi cared enough to break his silence and make a post announcing that he’s not Dorian. This coincides with when Hal was still alive.

However, greater turmoils have come to pass since then and we are yet to hear a word from Satoshi.

Therefore, for Satoshi not to intervene or voice any opinion at the time of something like the blocksize wars is quite unlikely.

I’ve read the Satoshi-Hal emails, but I’m not a computer scientist. Is there anything in that short PDF that Hal is indeed a different person from Satoshi? I don’t think so, but am open to being proven wrong and learn something new.

Unless I’m presented with some objective proof that Hal is a different person from Satoshi, I am not prepared to think otherwise. nostr:note1ngha55r5hc3qlwx5hcxcx0mxja82zgdvkvwcd2g9ky08lxmhzqqqns20f6