I don't know that he was Satoshi, and I suspect Satoshi was a group and Szabo was certainly involved. But I can say that Nash foresaw bitcoin, or in other words the advent of a digital gold, and he spent years philosophizing the implication of it in relation to our global financial system. Ideal Money is many many years ahead of its time, and I expect it to become very relevant soon. Thanks!
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Excellent read. I think Satoshi doesn't need to be affiliated with anyone really. Reason? He assembled publicly available knowledge from systems that pre-existed. He just refined and merged the designs (public designs).
I agree to an extent although there are also ramifications depending on who was involved. Besides that I think some people miss that really bitcoin is just an experiment that is set for blind peer review like any other properly done presentation of a theory. Its just that the nature of the conjecture is such that the experiment could not be done in a lab (otherwise people would just say, "sure it works in the lab, but governments will just shut it down in real life".