Dr.Tatsuaki Okamoto as the motivator behind the moniker – Satoshi Nakamoto
How could someone not have a digital footprint?
It is near impossible for anyone in the computer world to be completely off the grid.
Hal Finney’s Neighbor
Hal Finney’s neighbor was Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto (not a computer scientist).
Hal Finney’s biggest competitor
Hal’s competitor (when launching his own version of digital cash), was a scientist named Tatsuaki Okamoto. Okamoto held the patent on the most workable solution to digital cash at the time (1996). In fact, the only key difference between bitcoin and Okamoto’s version was that of trustless validators (bitcoin) versus a trusted (centralized) validator.
Summary
Finney most likely WAS Satoshi Nakamoto – there’s several others who have speculated that. This post tries to delve into the origin of the name Satoshi itself. Did it come from Hal’s neighbor? Or from Hal’s competitor, who, it is near certain, Hal was aware of.
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