Every time people mention Szabo, and every time someone needs to debunk this rumour. I'm on the phone, so it won't be me this time.

One of the many argument against this theory is that Szabo is not much of a computer programmer, and Satoshi was very fluent with C++ among other skills.

There's Hal Finney, the creator of PGP, which was a good programmer, a cypherpunk, and died a few years ago. The fact that Satoshi has shown inhuman restraint in showing up or saying a single world since 201x would be neatly explained if they were dead.

I already talked at length about this, but no human would be able to keep their mouth shut and assets frozen if they were alive today and held a few billion dollars and spiritual reigns of the most controversial economic invention of the century. Not a single one.

Let alone with the best opsec ever seen not to be nabbed, identified or killed by any of the major intelligence agencies in the world.

Occam's razor.

Adam back wasn't late to the game, he was there in 1998.

> ruined the network

Pretty sure it’s doing just fine.

Maybe I am reaching here, but by “ruining the network” I assume you mean that you are blaming him Adam for the small blockers winning, in which case the network is better off for it.

I'd not heard that theory, but I remember when Dan Kaminsky put the BitLen tribute into the blockchain, and it was definitely more about Dan screwing with weird tech, and realizing that anything he put there would be there forever right around the time that a good friend of his passed away. Dan was super skeptical about cryptocurrencies, and most of what he did around the space was finding weird ways to fuck with it.

Len seems much more likely than Nick, based on what I have read, but curiously he is mentioned much less frequently.

If that were true, it would have already been 51%'d by the backdoor they left themselves.