The timing of his disappearance matches up: Remember why Nakamoto suddenly evaporated from the internet at the end of 2010? It leaked from the mysterious superstar that it was because ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) had caught up with him! This disease is vicious, and indeed Finney ultimately succumbed to it. Just think about it, a god-like figure who created Bitcoin, vanishing right when the project was thriving? This timeline is just too coincidental!
"The first transaction, why not send it to yourself?" This is the most solid point! Anyone with a little common sense would ponder: you, as Nakamoto the ancestor, wrote the code for Bitcoin; for the first test transaction, wouldn’t you normally send it to your own wallet for a trial run? Yet the very first recipient of Bitcoin was Hal Finney! On January 12, 2009. This isn't just a coincidence—it's obvious, right? You call it coincidence? Brother, stop talking nonsense! How can there be so many coincidences in this world? The most likely scenario is: Finney received the coins with another address, completing this 'double act'.
The physical address also 'gave it away': Even more absurdly, at that time someone dug up that the suspected 'Nakamoto' (a Japanese-American named 'Dorian Nakamoto', later proven not to be) lived just a few blocks away from Hal Finney's old lair in California! With such a close physical distance, how can you say these two have no connection? It's hard to believe! Maybe Finney did it on purpose to create a smokescreen.
With this string of evidence, the core evidence chain is almost closed: the first transfer was to Finney, he lived nearby, and the timing of his withdrawal from the scene precisely matches the time Finney got ALS... chew on that, think it through.
Then why, when he was close to death, did he insist on not admitting he was Nakamoto?
This is the deepest layer! This guy's vision is too grand!
Finney (or Nakamoto) was clear in his mind: he wanted Bitcoin to be 'ownerless'! A digital gold without parents can truly break free from the shadows of centralized control. If the world knew who the founder was, Bitcoin would forever bear a personal imprint, and even political forces might get involved to manipulate it.
What he wanted to create was an ultimate currency system that transcends any individual or organization, capable of challenging or even replacing gold. A new monetary protocol belonging to all humanity.
He wouldn’t admit it, he disappeared, even taking the founder's secret to the grave... all for the purity of this moment. He used the final silence of his life to pave a heavenly road for Bitcoin's future.
It seems he bet right.
"True great currency needs no father"