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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by MrPatan on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:45PM (#32442439)
I also think living somewhere he could have seen Dorian Nakamoto's name is a very, very strong pointer towards Finney.

It may seem like a dumb opsec mistake to pick a name from your town, but lets remember, at that point we're talking about launching a cool experiment about digital money worth $0, not about picking a pseudonym as the figurehead of a project worth a trillion dollars.

After reading an article about it, I do wonder about Len Sassaman, who apparently fits Satoshi's timezone and "accent" better. It could even have been both of them collaborating...

Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by owens99 on Sunday August 14, 2022 @03:39AM (#32457288)
This blog post about Len Sassaman being Satoshi is very compelling. https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...

However, there are some valid counter arguments in this thread, such as Satoshi coming out of retirement in March 2014 to state that he was not Dorian Nakamoto, in the wake of a Newsweek article that falsely fingered the latter as Satoshi.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814469