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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? (resolves at 90% confidence)
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Ṁ1kṀ698
2030
12%
Adam Back
12%
Hal Finney
8%
Len Sassaman
11%
Nick Szabo
8%
Dorian Nakamoto
9%
Craig Wright
40%
Other

Resolves when I (deferring heavily to other Manifold mods/superusers who are paying more attention to this subject) am ~90% confident that Satoshi Nakamoto has been identified. If Satoshi is revealed to be a collaboration between multiple people, it resolves roughly to the best estimate of the % that each are responsible for Satoshi's identity.

I will also defer to consensus reporting, the Wikipedia page, etc. For example, if the Wiki page decisively lists one individual as Satoshi Nakamoto, that would likely be sufficient to resolve, and if the NYT, WSJ, WaPo, and Guardian all put out articles saying that the drama is over and Satoshi's identity has been conclusively revealed (as the same person), that would also probably be sufficient to resolve.

Market will be extended indefinitely until more definitive evidence emerges.

I think there are reasons to believe that AI will be able to unearth convincing evidence within a few years, but I ultimately don't have a horse in this race. I've only loosely followed the drama. Right now, I think no individual person is much more than ~50% likely to be Satoshi, but I also haven't devoted much time to thinking about this so I don't have particularly strong beliefs. I think I will be fairly truth-seeking in evaluating this market, as I don't know much about these people or have any allegiances to particular crypto ideologies or whatnot.

I WILL NOT BET IN THIS MARKET TO STAY AS OBJECTIVE AS POSSIBLE.

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This recent NYT obsession-article about Back isn't even the first time someone's tried analyzing Satoshi's text in that way. Someone did the same analysis in 2014, & concluded it were Dorian Nakamoto.

>(deferring heavily to other Manifold mods/superusers who are paying more attention to this subject)

It is interesting to decide you don't know enough to know, but that obviously a mod or super-user would know. How does that give anyone credibility on knowing the true identity of Satoshi, something people have been investigating continuously since BitCoin's emergence? Why would a mod or superuser be more likely to have expertise on this particular mystery?