Followup to
Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of BitcoinThe man who disrupted the financial system for good, simply disappeared.
But why then?His moving away from the project in 2010 and then coming back in 2011 to state that he will no longer be involved means that Satoshi knew he can no longer be involved, either due to terminal disease or due to becoming extra wealthy or due to being imprisoned.
Becoming extra wealthy, does not prevent him from seeking the billions he has!
Satoshi’s bitcoin address contains about 1,000,000 bitcoins. In December 2017, when the price peaked, he had more than 19 billion dollars. For that short moment, Nakamoto was 44th richest person in the world! And to this day he hasn’t cashed a single bitcoin.
Being imprisoned does not prevent him from cashing out some of them, we all know that computers are available in prisons.
The only possible outcome is that he is dead!
Hal Finney is the probable person behind bitcoin.
Finney was diagnosed with ALS in 2009 and he fought the disease until his death in 2014.
He started the financial revolution but had to retreat when the disease progressed.
When you see his bio in 2011 he mentions his 2009 ALS diagnosis:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110531173653/http://www.finney.org/~hal/his 2007 bio, shows his interest and skills in cryptography and interest in politics and digital money:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071222202212/http://www.finney.org/~hal/There are many other clues that point to Hal Finney:- He was involved in the early crypto community
- He was a computer scientist, libertarian and cypherpunker
- He created his own digital money in the 1990s called CRASH (CRypto cASH)
- He created first reusable proof of work system
- He was advocate of decentralization after the fall of DigiCash
- He posted the first affirmative message about Bitcoin on the forum, he was the first one on the bitcoin network, first one to mine bitcoin, and he received the first bitcoin transaction
- He lived in the same town as Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, which name he used to conceal his own