Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.
8 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
Finding Satoshi (Tooley / Miele, April 2026) names Hal Finney and Len Sassaman as Bitcoin co-creators: Finney coded, Sassaman wrote the paper. Lopp and Back dispute it.
Hashcash's inventor and the first person Satoshi contacted. In April 2026 the NYT named him the closest stylometric match among 620 cryptography-mailing-list writers. The evidence, weighed.
Satoshi has been hunted in public for years and left a large trail of material, yet remains unidentified. Why all that searching and all that material have not led to a name.
Twelve recurring Satoshi candidates, compared across four independent layers: profile match, stylometric attribution, direct correspondence and development environment.
Jameson Lopp argues Hal Finney could not have been Satoshi: on April 18, 2009, Finney was running a 10-mile race in Santa Barbara during a window of Satoshi network activity.
Benjamin Wallace's Wired feature — an early major mainstream article on Bitcoin. Traces the whitepaper, mining boom, Mt. Gox hack, and growing pains, ending with Garzik's "We really don't care."
Fran Finney: wife of Hal Finney (the first known person other than Satoshi to run Bitcoin). She witnessed Bitcoin's earliest moments, cared for Hal through ALS, and became the keeper of his legacy.
Harold Thomas Finney II (1956–2014): Caltech engineer, PGP 2.0 developer, Extropian, cryonics advocate, RPOW creator, first Bitcoin recipient and first known person other than Satoshi to run Bitcoin.