Crazy theory: Satoshi was Kleiman + Wright + Szabo (others?).
Szabo wrote the paper.
Szabo wrote the paper.
this is Satoshi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtdE7P1VjrM
the apple fell and hit his head and BOOM it all made sense.
everyone else just helped make this idea a reality.
by that standard its impossible to ever prove who had that lightbulb moment.
short of this i think we can label anyone that took a big roll in bitcoins initial dev. as Satoshi
so yes Satoshi was Kleiman + Wright + Szabo (others?).
Very good point... lightbulb idea verses actual implementation.


To me Satoshi is the one who kept mining all the coins when everyone else thought Bitcoin was a joke that would never work. Despair for the project reached such high levels that Satoshi stopped posting here for months, but he kept on mining.
By January 01, 2010 there were only 21 users registered here, which shows how small the community was. AgoraMutual was number 21 to register, and looking at his profile he was trying to sell Oil and Lube.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=21