Satoshi Nakamoto

“Satoshi Nakamoto” is the alias of the mysterious person (or group of people) that are responsible for the creation and launch of Bitcoin back in 2009 and the authorship of the Bitcoin whitepaper, published in 2008.

As such, Satoshi Nakamoto is also the entity who conceptualized and created the first-ever blockchain network.

Nakamoto was the first to effectively solve the double-spending problem for digital currency using a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network.

Nakamoto was active in the development of bitcoin up until December 2010, making all modifications to the source code himself.

In 2010, he handed over control of the source code repository and network alert key to Gavin Andresen, and transferred several related domains to various prominent members of the bitcoin community.

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

While Nakamoto claimed on his P2P Foundation profile in 2012 that he was a 37-year-old man from Japan, others speculated that he was from an English-speaking country due to his use of perfect English and the fact that none of his work was documented or labelled in Japanese.

Analyses of Nakamoto’s post suggest that his sleeping patterns were most similar to those of people living in the UK, and his use of British English in spelling and terminology have led many to believe that Nakamoto is actually of British origin.

Several years after the publication of the Bitcoin network, the entity posting under the name Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared from the internet, never known to publish anything under that name again.

However, a few bold actors have claimed to be Nakamoto. There has been much speculation about whether any of these claims could be true.

Ultimately, the real-world identity of Satoshi has never been established and remains a mystery to this day.