Satoshi is the only very high profile person I’m aware of to remain completely (pseud)onymous.
Many others have tried and failed (though they often broke the law, so that might be the main distinguishing factor)
Many others have tried and failed (though they often broke the law, so that might be the main distinguishing factor)
Daft Punk
Deadmau5
Members of KISS (for a while)
Blue Man Group
But if you're following the advice in this article...nobody should ever know that you're not actually a real person. So you might "know" lots of folks online who are not who they say they are.
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Robert_Del_Naja
Out of curiosity, why do you believe it's not Robin Gunningham?
That seems to be what https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy suggests, and the reasoning seems sound.
They just have to meet with Banksy's agent.
Knowing who Banksy is puts them at real risk of demystifying him/them and lowering their profit.
personas are good enough information, it satisfies the curiosity well enough to not dig deeper
I think if it weren't for some stupid comments by a League developer (?), no normal people would know who he is. Now, if you try hard enough, you can find his identity leaked in an old blog/forum post (?) and have it proven/corroborated in other areas online I think.
It’s like the group “Anonymous” that conveniently only shows up when the CIA has an objective and then disappears again.