Adam back wasn't late to the game, he was there in 1998.

To the Bitcoin game. He only started showing interest in Bitcoin when it was well into the multi billion$ market cap.

Every time people mention Szabo, and every time someone needs to debunk this rumour. I'm on the phone, so it won't be me this time.

One of the many argument against this theory is that Szabo is not much of a computer programmer, and Satoshi was very fluent with C++ among other skills.

There's Hal Finney, the creator of PGP, which was a good programmer, a cypherpunk, and died a few years ago. The fact that Satoshi has shown inhuman restraint in showing up or saying a single world since 201x would be neatly explained if they were dead.

I already talked at length about this, but no human would be able to keep their mouth shut and assets frozen if they were alive today and held a few billion dollars and spiritual reigns of the most controversial economic invention of the century. Not a single one.

Let alone with the best opsec ever seen not to be nabbed, identified or killed by any of the major intelligence agencies in the world.

Occam's razor.

I specifically said I didn't think it was Szabo... I agree that Satoshi is probably dead, but I don't think it's Hal Finney either. It's most probably someone who isn't on anyone's radar.

I think it is very unlikely to be Hal Finney either. Andy Greenberg's interview with Finney a few months prior to his death, with Finney's wife and son also being present convinced me of that at least. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/25/satosh...

or they were from the future... :tinfoil-hat:

There are many billionaires, far more noisy and opsecless than Satoshi, who have never been "nabbed" by anyone.