Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto Revealed

Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the unknown person or persons who designed bitcoin.Nakamoto has claimed to be a man living in Japan, born on 5 April 1975. However, speculation about the true identity of Nakamoto has mostly focused on a number of cryptography and computer science experts of non-Japanese descent, living in the United States and Europe.

His last communication was in April 2011 when he said that he has moved on to other things and Bitcoin is in good hands now. You may refer this article which gives some interesting facts about Satoshi Nakamoto.

Nakamoto is believed to own up to roughly one million bitcoins, with a value estimated at over $2 billion.

What exactly happened in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

In November 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” via the Cryptography Mailing List. He had been working on Bitcoin protocol since 2007. If you click the link cryptography mailing list you can see his actual letter dated 1st Nov 2008 and the letter has link to its actual white paper which laid the foundation of Digital Currency. The paper basically talked about a payment system wherein individuals can give and receive payments to each other without involvement of any intermediary bank or financial institution.

In Jan 2009, he released first version of Bitcoin Software and communicated with people via mailing list in 2009 and 2010. By the end of the year 2010, he gradually faded from the community. During 2009 and 2010, as he communicated via mailing list, he worked with people on open source but never revealed any personal details. Last he was heard in April 2011 when he is reported to have quoted that he has “moved on to other things”.

Around mid 2010 he handed over control of the bitcoin software – source code repository, network keys, various domains related to this software to different prominent members of the Bitcoin community, one of which was Gavin Andresen with whom he used to communicate. Thereafter he stopped his involvement in this project.

In a 2011 article in The New Yorker, Joshua Davis claimed to have narrowed down the identity of Nakamoto to a number of possible individuals, including the Finnish economic sociologist Dr. Vili Lehdonvirta and Irish student Michael Clear, then a graduate student in cryptography at Trinity College Dublin.Clear strongly denied he was Nakamoto, as did Lehdonvirta. In October 2011, writing for Fast Company, investigative journalist Adam Penenberg cited circumstantial evidence suggesting Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry could be Nakamoto. They jointly filed a patent application that contained the phrase "computationally impractical to reverse" in 2008, which was also used in the bitcoin white paper by Nakamoto. The domain name bitcoin.org was registered three days after the patent was filed. All three men denied being Nakamoto when contacted by Penenberg.

Finding Satoshi Nakamoto

Since 2011, there have been many reports about finding Satoshi Nakamoto. While the list of proposed people deemed to be Satoshi Nakamoto is a big one, following four persons were reported to have high probability of being Satoshi Nakamoto.

Nick Szabo :
Dorian Nakamoto :
Hal Finney :
Craig Steven Wright:

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