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>>wslh+(OP)
I’ve always assumed it was a state actor such as the NSA that invented it. Seems like the obvious step for such an organisation to take, even just for shits and giggles. There was an awful lot of talk about electronic gold and financial/crypto-havens in the 90s (see also Cryptonomicon) so it was brewing for a long time. Plus such an actor is one of the few who could keep quiet about it all this time - it’s part of the job. One would expect that we’d all know who Satoshi was by now, unless Satoshi was a state-sponsored collective effort.

>>gizajo+04
I'm pretty impressed that the secret has been kept this long. But I guess whoever made it is just living as one of the many people who were lucky to get in really early.

>>wombat+c5
There's a somewhat credible theory that the inventor of bitcoin is dead now. That could explain why his bitcoins are untouched and why he doesn't emerge to claim credit for his invention.

>>chango+z6
It's definitely possible. But one could think of plenty of other hypotheses for why they're unmoved and why he hasn't taken credit.

In my opinion, there was a real (but vague) clue to his identity that was not a red herring: the IP leak in the debug logs he sent to Hal Finney. He used Tor most of the time but briefly slipped up and likely divulged his real, residential IP address. If that's the case, then he was living in California, possibly around the LA area, as of January 2009.

https://whoissatoshi.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/satoshi-in-cal...

>>meowfa+g7
how is that a clue, given the best theory anyone has is that Hal Finney himself was Satoshi?