[Cryptography] My Identity as Satoshi Nakamoto

[Ray Dillinger]

This is idiotic. I waited three weeks, but nobody else explained the 
obvious here.  So I'll do it.

Satoshi succeeded.  Satoshi evaded identification and got away clean.  
Satoshi is in a position where there is absolutely NO BENEFIT WHATSOEVER 
to ever being identified.  We know Satoshi is not an idiot, and that 
anyone claiming to be Satoshi clearly is.

Here is why.

The most likely result of people becoming convinced that someone is 
Satoshi today, is bad people breaking into that person's house in the 
dead of night, pointing guns at "Satoshi" or their family members, and 
demanding Satoshi's keys. You should be very glad that you did not and 
will not succeed in convincing anyone that you were Satoshi.  If you 
have family members you care about, including yourself, your failure  
may have saved their lives.

It would be profoundly idiotic for Satoshi to abandon his, her, or their 
resounding success in evading identification.  He, she, or they would 
never be safe again.  It is even more profoundly idiotic for someone 
without Satoshi's keys.

Satoshi's wisest move, years ago, would IMO have been to destroy those 
keys - leaving Satoshi himself (or herself, or themselves) unable to 
prove it even if he (or she, or they) wanted to.

And Satoshi, I am quite certain, has by now reached the same conclusions 
and does not want to.

Nobody will ever prove that they were Satoshi, because Satoshi did not 
(and if still alive does not) want it proven.

Bear