We all know that the name of the creator of Bitcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto. According to some, Nakamoto is a fantasy hero, according to others, he is a real person, but he is hiding. Some believe that the name Nakamoto is a nickname for a person or group. What we know about him is actually very limited; We know that he is a software genius and can speak English fluently. Is it a woman or a man; We do not know whether he is alive or dead. Our knowledge of who he is is limited, but there are many theories floating around…
Cryptography enthusiasts and computer engineers were familiar with the name Satoshi Nakamoto before the Bitcoin boom. Someone had posted on crypto sites with this name years ago and emailed with other developers. Nakamoto’s identity has not been finalized yet, but so far several prestigious media outlets have come up with a few names. Among them, there are those who deny the allegations, those who have passed away and those who have been exposed.
The first Bitcoin was issued on January 3, 2009, by a man named Satoshi Nakamoto. At least that’s how the name was announced. Nakamoto made history as an invisible figure who started a new era by publishing a whitepaper on the cryptography mailing group on October 21, 2008, months before the first Bitcoin mining.
Three years after the Whitpaper was published, Nakamoto announced his retirement with an e-mail. He told another Bitcoin developer that he would “take care of other things” and never contacted anyone again from his previous emails.
WAS DORIAN NAKAMOTO?
The US-based news magazine Newsweek claimed in a report in 2014 that the creator of Bitcoin was Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, who was then 64 years old. Nakamoto, who lives in California, had one more thing in common with the other Nakamoto apart from his name; Dorian Nakamoto was a computer engineer. But he denied this claim. Satoshi Nakamoto also said in an online forum that the allegations about Dorian are not true. However, photos of Dorian Nakamoto are still shared as Satoshi Nakamoto.
IS CRAIG WRIGHT THE REAL NAKAMOTO?
After the Dorian Nakamoto incident, the media’s effort to find the name behind Bitcoin continued. This time the name came out of Australia.
Wired magazine published in the USA published a news in December 2015 that Nakamoto was a computer engineer named Craig Wright. Wright also said that was true. Wired stated that he made the news based on the documents he had obtained. One piece of evidence was an article on Wright’s blog that allegedly appeared a few months before the whitepaper was published. In addition, correspondence with tax officials and lawyers about Wright’s involvement in the creation of Bitcoin was also among the documents. But then the truth came out, and it turned out that both the block and public-key encryption were outdated. Later, Wright also had to withdraw his claim.
WHAT ABOUT NICK SZABO?
Another name suspected of being Satoshi Nakamoto is computer engineer Nick Szabo, who is interested in cryptocurrencies. The New York Times magazine put forward this claim in 2015. In this claim, what is known about Nakamoto and Szabo’s works were compared.
Born in 1964, Szabo is known for his great contributions to the development of Bitcoin. Szabo, who is also a law professor and crypto expert, pioneered the concept of smart contracts with an article titled “Smart Contracts: Building Blocks for Digital Markets” in 1996. Szabo conceptualized “Bit Gold” in 2008, which is also a decentralized currency and the precursor to Bitcoin.. In addition, both Nakamoto and Szabo constantly quote economist Carl Menger in their conversations.
Szabo denies the allegation that he is Nakamoto.
HAL FINNEY ALSO NAMED
Software developer Hal Finney passed away in 2014. Apart from Nakamoto, he is known to be the first person to work on Bitcoin. What makes Finney important is that he was the first person to receive Bitcoin from Nakamoto in 2009. At the same time, the fact that it was neighbor with Dorian Nakamoto attracted the attention of researchers. When Forbes reporter Andy Greenberg took the writing samples of Dorian Nakamoto and Hal Finney to a typist, he encountered an interesting fact. The writing styles were so similar that Finney might have been Nakamoto’s shadow writer, if not Dorian Nakamoto. Finney, who denied these allegations, showed the journalist the e-mails he and Dorian Nakamoto sent to each other during an interview, as well as his Bitcoin wallet history. Finney’s evidence matched the truth.
In the current situation, what we know about Nakamoto is that he is a very good software developer and knows how to hide himself very well. Apart from these, we do not know his gender, age, hometown, or whether he is alive or not.
Sources: Kointelegraph, Bitcoin.org
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