Oddbean

This is an excellent question. My superficial answer is "no" because of the mantras we keep repeating, such as "rules, not rulers." However, I have to admit that I have some implicit expectations of Satoshi, the person, or Satoshi, the team. After over ten years of reading, experimenting (and, of course, the 40+ weekly hours of listening to podcasts as required by @Bugle_News standards 😉), I am still learning new and fundamental principles of Bitcoin. Principles and mechanisms that were mostly known to Satoshi before the launch. So, they must have dealt with the fundamentals for years and were driven to liberate the world from the plague of FIAT. In my mind, it is safe to assume that Satoshi adhered to very high moral and ethical standards (but I recognize how this could just be wishful thinking). In the end, for me, it is the lack of those standards in dealing with the current FIAT elites that sent me looking for alternatives. Now, should it turn out, very much to my surprise, that the persona Satoshi is an alias for the Lazarus group, for instance, I think I would lose interest. However, this is an edge case I don't consider and would just deal with it when it happens.

Depends who it turns out to be probably. If it was the CIA and they still hold the coins? That's a different matter to if it's just some professor from a small university or a dead Russian teenage hacker.

I'd be disappointed that he'd revealed himself. So much of the magic of Bitcoin is wrapped up in his disappearing. The idea of Satoshi is more important than the reality that it was created by a fallable human. Would I sell & rage quit? Nah - there is no alternative. I just think it would be dumb to reveal yourself after so long. Spend some of your coins? Sure - no problems, but do it quietly without endangering yourself or risking the rest of your stack being captured.

My best guess is Len Sassman. He actually did kill himself just after Bitcoin picked up momentum in 2011, And his desire to be humble and love his wife, While fighting an obsolete and oppressive banking system seeps to be a pretty logical reason why. I think what would change something for us all would be if those coins got hacked, Or redistributed.