How do you reconcile this with the fact that Satoshi sent both an email and a bitcoin transaction while Hal was busy running a 10 mile race? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37974155
Most likely Szabo.
Wait, is Nick Szabo dead? I find conflicting information on the Net.
There's no way it was Szabo, although Szabo likes people to think it was him. Szabo's ideas for p2p currency were directly opposed to the structure of bitcoin, and he continued professing these views and critiques of bitcoin long after bitcoin was launched and achieved some measure of success.