<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" style="" face="georgia, serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I have long suspected that Satoshi is a composite character</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I don't think so because one person can keep a secret but two can only if one of them is dead. The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto has been kept secret since 2009, and whoever Satoshi is he must be a very odd man because he has access to <span class="gmail_default" style="">1.1 million bitcoins, </span>but he doesn't seem to have <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ever </span>spent a single <span class="gmail_default" style="">one</span>, I think it unlikely two men that unworldly just happen to get together. And Satoshi probably is a man, <span class="gmail_default" style="">in 2009 </span>there weren't many <span class="gmail_default" style="">w</span>omen th<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">at</span> were experts in both<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>C++ and economic theory.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> The suspects for being Satoshi include Hal Finney, Nick Szabo and Wei Dai, I can remember when all <span class="gmail_default" style="">3</span> were on this list. Peter Todd is another suspect. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>It's interesting that<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>Satoshi Nakamoto<span class="gmail_default" style=""> stopped communicating just about the time that Hal Finney started getting sick. And just a few blocks from the house that Hal had lived in for years was a libertarian and trained physicist named "</span>Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto<span class="gmail_default" style="">", but I don't know quite what to make of that. </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">John K Clark</b></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6744621169801592454"><br>
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