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Bitcoin Institute reanalysis of van Dorst's stylometric corpus for the five most-cited candidates. Finding: Szabo top at 4.67th percentile of 12,739 authors; 594 unnamed rank closer; corpus is noisy.
The hypothesis that Adam Back (Hashcash inventor, first Satoshi contact) was Satoshi. Frame: April 2026 NYT stylometric investigation by Carreyrou. Counter: Back's 2024 COPA v Wright sworn testimony.
The Peter Todd = Satoshi hypothesis from HBO 2024 "Money Electric." Frame: a Dec 2010 BitcoinTalk thread where Todd seemed to complete a Satoshi post. Counter: Todd was 22 and an undergrad in 2007.
Why Bitcoin's 2015-2017 fork wars ran as identity contests, not OSS disputes: the post-2011 authority vacuum, the economic weight on rule choices, and the three layers that bound code to currency.
The hypothesis that Hal Finney — RPOW author and Dorian Nakamoto's Temple City neighbor — was Satoshi. Frame: Greenberg 2014 Forbes "Nakamoto's Neighbor." Counter: April 18, 2009 race-day alibi.
Editorial reading of how the 2014 'Bitcoin Core' rebrand reshaped Bitcoin's authority vocabulary — PR #3408 internal disagreement, the 2015-2017 fork episodes, and Hearn's 2025 retrospective regret.
The hypothesis that Nick Szabo (Bit Gold creator, "smart contracts" coiner) was Satoshi. Frame: Skye Grey 2013 stylometric article. Counter: Szabo's 2008 Bit Gold help request and self-denials.
The Japanese-language hypothesis that Isamu Kaneko (Winny P2P developer, prosecuted from 2004, died July 2013) was Satoshi. Counter: criminal-case scrutiny, English-register difference.
The hypothesis that Len Sassaman (cypherpunk cryptographer, died July 3, 2011) was Satoshi. Frame: timing argument and cypherpunk credentials. Counter: no direct documentary link, no widow comment.
Structural reading of the 2010-08-15 overflow incident — soft-fork rescue mechanics, why a 5-hour response was only achievable then, transaction-shape forensics, and the centralization paradox.
The August 2010 overflow recovery rested on knightmb's snapshot. Secondary sources have since attached a misattributed 10%-holder claim and a contested Tennessee identification to the same handle.
Editorial forensic reading of Satoshi's operational environment during Bitcoin v0.1 launch week (Jan 8-12, 2009): "from where I am" in the Jan 10 email to Finney, and dense activity cadence.
Editorial reading of unusual distribution and tooling in Bitcoin v0.1: .rar packaging, no version control, no test suite, Hungarian notation. Compares Warez-scene conventions, Kaminsky 2011.
Statistical analysis of Satoshi's Bitcoin source (v0.1.0–v0.3.19): coding-style fingerprint, commit times suggesting EST/CST, growth from 19,901 to 31,909 lines over 14 months, final-commit traits.
Technical analysis of Bitcoin's genesis block from v0.1 source: hardcode auto-construction, the five-day gap as timestamp artifact, two-layer authorship reading, PoW headroom, key possession.
Genealogy of every Bitcoin protocol fork that left a separate chain alive (Bitcoin Cash, SV, Gold) and the adjacent cryptocurrencies derived from Bitcoin (Namecoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin).
Comparison of recurring Satoshi candidates aligned in a seven-dimension profile table. The Individual column links each candidate's hypothesis page; this entry names no leading candidate.
Reads the asymmetry between public attempts to identify Satoshi, the surviving material trail, and the persistent identification gap. Companion entry to the identity-hypotheses overview.
Descriptive reading of the "Satoshi Nakamoto" pseudonym against the cyberpunk and techno-orientalist symbolic field of the 1980s-90s. Structural observations, not claims about authorial intent.
Structural reading of how "Satoshi Nakamoto" remained unidentified across development, public phase, and withdrawal. Six layers: pseudonym, channels, language, env, genesis constants, handover.
Editorial reading of Satoshi's relationship to cypherpunk, from three primary observations: he didn't know b-money, Wei Dai testified Satoshi was "not previously active," alignment with Hughes 1993.
Bitcoin v0.1 reuses one cypherpunk primitive (PoW from Hashcash), borrows general CS components (Merkle trees, linked timestamping), and synthesizes the rest (UTXO, mining, 21M cap, P2P, ECDSA).
The hypothesis that Wei Dai — b-money author (whitepaper ref [1]) and Crypto++ creator — was Satoshi. Counter: Aug 22, 2008 email reads as third-party reception; 2014 AALWA self-distinction.
Inventory of every Satoshi self-reference in the public record (Aug 2008 – Apr 2011): identity claims, dev disclosures, operational state, farewells, authenticity-disputed. Each row anchored.
Interactive D3 timeline of every documented Satoshi event — correspondence, mailing lists, BitcoinTalk, P2P Foundation, SourceForge — from August 20, 2008 to the disputed 2014 P2P Foundation post.