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>>10654474
No. If anything he was part of the Satoshi group, but the brains behind Satoshi is now frozen.

>bicorn 1k eoy

Of all the people that have been proposed to be Satoshi, Hal Finney is by far the most likely.

>Cryptographic expert and known cypherpunk culturalist
>Had the same genius disease that Stephan Hawking does
>Received Bitcoin's very first transaction
>Lived in the same neighborhood as Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto (literally what even are the odds)

He denied it, and the fact that he was exchanging emails with Satoshi gives some evidence to them being separate people, but even if he's not, he's practically it's co-creator and the closest thing we have to an identified Bitcoin creator.

RIP. I hope he had a plan for his coins before he died, but it's almost even more admirable if he just let them be destroyed.