How you probably will find Satoshi • Hacker News Board

petterroea wrote: post #3

Why are people so obsessed with finding him? As others have pointed out wrt the New York Times article, it will just put him in danger.

I think who Satoshi is is fairly clear if you look into it all but most who do don't put it out there for those reasons.

Re: How you probably will find Satoshi

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Post by petterroea » Mon, May 25, 2026, 5:05 AM UTC

tim333 wrote: post #14

petterroea wrote: post #3

Why are people so obsessed with finding him? As others have pointed out wrt the New York Times article, it will just put him in danger.

I think who Satoshi is is fairly clear if you look into it all but most who do don't put it out there for those reasons.

In hacker culture I think there's a pretty clear culture that proving you aren't interested in the inner circle's identities (and therefore proving you are a mature person who understands what is at stake) is one of the ways you earn access to the inner circle.

The lemma is that people who actively want to be friends with and know people of the inner circle are usually marked as untrustable and (somewhat regrattably) made fun of and excluded. That is, prove you are here for the game, not for rubbing shoulders with powerful people, and you shall become one.

I have seen this in warez-related circles, seems like social mechanic that appears naturally to protect those that matter.