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A pseudonymous person or group operating under the name Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin (BTC). Nakamoto released Bitcoin’s white paper in 2008 and launched its network in 2009.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? A number of theories exist, including that the Bitcoin creator is Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, Craig Wright or Vili Lehdonvirta. Finney corresponded with Nakamoto in Bitcoin’s early days via email, but the pseudonymous figure’s identity remains unknown. Nakamoto vanished around 2011. Satoshi Nakamoto’s net worth is possibly quite large. The pseudonymous entity holds 1 million BTC, based on theories.
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9800A judge has ruled definitively that Craig Wright is not the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, dealing a blow to his claims of ownership over the currency’s intellectual property.
7053Wright is not the pseudonymous founder of the Bitcoin network, a judge ruled on March 14.
9966The correspondence portrays a more informal, conversational Satoshi Nakamoto, but perhaps suffering from job “burnout.”
3322Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin told ETHDenver attendees that crypto is part of the next super cycle and “we are ready for a new system of the world.”
13712Satoshi didn’t come up with the term “cryptocurrency” and wanted to downplay Bitcoin’s “anonymity.”
17383Bitcoin developers can potentially remove Bitcoin’s 21-million supply limit, but miners are unlikely to accept such a change.
15000Why send 26.9 Bitcoin to Satoshi Nakamoto’s inactive wallet? Cointelegraph gathered the most outlandish theories and asked crypto industry leaders for their craziest hypotheses.
3507A Bitcoin user inscribed the text “SEC Chairman on the brink of second ETF approval” into a Bitcoin transaction’s OP_RETURN field.
15161Conor Grogan, a director at Coinbase, suggested that the anonymous Bitcoin transfer could be some sort of weird ETF marketing scheme.
17652In a retelling of the Christmas classic movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Cointelegraph takes readers into a timeline without Satoshi Nakamoto.
4018During 2023, several Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallets have risen from dormancy to transfer their BTC to a new address.
16354“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party,” Satoshi wrote in an Oct. 31 email in 2008.
5737The investigator, Jameson Lopp, compiled archived emails from 2010, data from a 10-mile race in California in 2009 and other evidence to make the argument.
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