Every once in a while, someone claims to have discovered Satoshi Nakamoto, but the results of each verification make Satoshi Nakamoto even more mysterious.
He left very little information. We only know that he was a member of the cypherpunks and had amazing knowledge of cryptography, computers, mathematics and economics. Many errors in Bitcoin that were once considered redundant designs were later proven to be correct, such as the carefully selected Koblitz curve, which avoided the backdoor hidden in the encryption standard by the US National Security Agency. For example, based on the encryption of the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm, hashing twice is enough to cope with the threat of quantum computers.
Satoshi Nakamoto used PGP encryption and the Tor network to communicate with anyone. He even deliberately forged some identity information and personal characteristics in his white papers and community speeches to mislead some wrong guesses. For example, he pretended to read in British spelling and follow Greenwich Mean Time. His meticulousness is amazing.
Satoshi Nakamoto is special not only because he is a genius. His Bitcoin wallet has one million Bitcoins, which is worth hundreds of billions of dollars at today's prices. But this amazing wealth is as immovable as a piece of ice. Obviously, fame and wealth have no appeal to Satoshi Nakamoto. Like a superhero, he quietly appears, leaves behind a stunning masterpiece, and then disappears.
Simply explaining his disappearance by saying he was indifferent to fame and fortune seems insufficient. The last time Satoshi Nakamoto made a public appearance was in 2011 when he persuaded Assange not to use Bitcoin to keep WikiLeaks running. It can be seen from this that Satoshi Nakamoto hoped that Bitcoin would thrive. However, in 2017, when Bitcoin was plagued by endless expansion debates and forks, why didn't Satoshi Nakamoto stand up and give guidance? Many people hold a pessimistic view, believing that Satoshi Nakamoto saw the selfishness of human nature in the debate and was completely disappointed.
I would like to end with a quote from Chang Qia.
"Satoshi is a group of people who are pacifist leakers who want to challenge the old order and build a fairer, more equal society. Where education is freely and fairly distributed to all, and where privacy is a right rather than a privilege. In short, for those who seek a fairer world: We are all Satoshi."
