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...
Re:The Bitcoin Pre-Genesis Block
by withinboredom on Saturday October 08, 2022 @01:52PM
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or they were from the future... :tinfoil-hat:
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.