Hello, today I'm going to talk about a controversial matter, who is Satoshi Nakamoto.
I was a believer that Satoshi Nakamoto was a group of people and not a single person, my view has changed on this, I think Satoshi was Len Sassaman.
I'm not going deep on this, I'm just making some points. First Hal Finney was my choice because he received the first tansaction of BTC from Satoshi himself, maybe it was between two wallets of his. I think Hal was his right arm and not Satoshi. Hal died in 2014 due to ALS unfortunaly, a great contributor to BTC and the crypto world.
Len Sassaman was a true cypherpunk who believed in privacy like few people. He developed many projects before BTC like email privacy and this technology was what gave birth to the idea of BTC. Satoshi used english language in the british way, Len inspite of being American also used British english. He was in Europe a lot of time and Satoshi time online in Bitcointalk coincides with the end of the day in Europe when Len was out of his university too. The two most convincing arguments are:
First, every BTC node has a tribute to Len in its code, an image of his face is built in on every node.
Second, the last post of Satoshi was two months before Len's death. Len like many hackers had a problem with depression and some other neurologic problems. He commited suicide in 2011, before he could see some major success of BTC. Another terrible lost to the free world.
Satoshi leaved a wallet with more than 1 million BTC in it, untoched till this day.
If you want to read a full story about Len and his contributions to BTC and privacy you can check this post where I got some information: https://leung-btc.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c85c2b10
Hope you liked the article, the story of BTC is so great and unfortunaly full of tragedy, but the project itself is the legacy of many that contributed to make this world a much better place.
Best Regards,
Cryptopeach
