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Researcher Finds an Old Twitter Profile May Have Been Satoshi Nakamoto’s Account

22/02/2021 by Idelto Editor

On February 22, 2021, an author published a post on substack.com about an anonymous Twitter account that may have belonged to the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. The researcher discovered a Twitter account dubbed ‘Goldlover,’ and found some interesting coincidences with the account’s tweets and Bitcoin’s creator.

The Curious Goldlover Tweets

An author called Varun published an interesting analysis of a specific Twitter account that may or may not belong to Bitcoin’s creator. Varun said in his research analysis that he stumbled upon the Twitter account called ‘Goldlover,’ and noticed that the account was quite “chatty” for a period of time.

Running bitcoin

— halfin (@halfin) January 11, 2009

The researcher also said that Satoshi Nakamoto was the same way up until the inventor left the community for good. The Goldlover account (@fafcffacfff) was created in May 2008 and Varun says that a script was written. The Goldlover tweets mentioned gold quite often, and Varun’s findings suggest that the ‘gold’ terminology may be in reference to “Bit Gold.”

“The Wall of Interesting Tweets” compiled in Varun’s blog post. (Image credit: Varun – offthetrack.substack.com)

“On September 17th, 2008, this account made a reference to Digital Gold Currency,” Varun’s post highlights. “In between an incredible amount of nonsensical tweets about gold, sometimes there would be tweets which referenced decentralization, financial crisis, people losing their homes, fiat currency, criticism of the Federal Reserve,” Varun says. “These are all hallmarks of talking points used by Satoshi in his emails and forum posts which are well known, post-Bitcoin announcement.”

For instance, on December 19, 2008, Goldlover said:

The Great Stock Panic of 2008 was so mercilessly brutal that no sector escaped its ravages.

What is also quite interesting is that no other Twitter accounts back in January 2009, except for Hal Finney, tweeted about Bitcoin. “Based on all of this, this is good enough for me to feel quite confident that this indeed was Satoshi’s original anonymous Twitter account,” Varun notes.

On January 11, 2009, Hal Finney tweeted about the crypto asset and not too long after that Goldlover wrote: “From: Satoshi Nakamoto – 2009-01-11 22:32 Bitcoin v0.1.2 is now available for d.”

The very same day on January 29, 2009, Goldlover also said:

It’s completely decentralized with no server or trusted parties.

Exploring the Limitless Depths of Satoshi’s Mind

Ever since Varun published his post about the alleged Satoshi Nakamoto Twitter account, people have been interacting with Goldlover’s 12-year-old tweets.

“Thanks for changing the world Satoshi,” an individual wrote on Monday.

If you know where there are oranges in the sky in Winter Garden, you are on the right track for locating a treasure box.

— GoldLover (@fafcffacfff) February 11, 2009

“Feeling sufficiently anonymous with this cryptic account run since May 2008, this might have been a slip to now start linking up and showing up as the 2nd tweet ever to mention Bitcoin,” Varun’s substack.com blog post states. “If Hal was Satoshi, then why continue tweeting from this unknown account, which barely had any followers?” Varun asks. The researcher said that he could have slept in every Saturday morning, but this Twitter account had him on the hunt for Nakamoto.

The report concludes:

Having concluded this was Satoshi – we don’t know who, the rest of the tweets now provide an insight into his mindset, and each tweet here needs to be branched out and explored in limitless depths.

At the end of Varun’s theory, he left a mysterious tweet from Goldlover which talks about a treasure box with oranges in the sky.

“If you know where there are oranges in the sky in Winter Garden, you are on the right track for locating a treasure box,” Goldlover tweeted.

Just recently, a group of armchair sleuths have been on the hunt for Satoshi’s stash of bitcoins, because they believe Nakamoto left the coins to be the greatest treasure hunt ever. Despite the coincidences and the extremely old and cryptic tweets from Goldlover, we don’t know for sure if the Twitter account actually belonged to Satoshi, but today many people are speculating.

What do you think about the Goldlover Twitter account that may belong to Satoshi Nakamoto? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

1,000 Decade-Old Dormant Bitcoins Moved Today on Bitcoin’s 12th Anniversary

03/01/2021 by Idelto Editor

12 years ago, Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto launched the network after revealing the cryptocurrency concept via the white paper a few months prior. At approximately 18:15:05 UTC, the network launched its first block and since then, over 664,000 bitcoin blocks have been mined. Moreover, on the 12th anniversary of the network coming to life, a large string of 2010 block rewards started moving after more than ten years of sitting idle.

The 12th Anniversary of the Bitcoin Blockchain

Cryptocurrency proponents are celebrating the invocation of the first computational network to solve the Byzantine Fault dilemma created by the pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. The birth of the Bitcoin (BTC) network is quite special and over the last 12 years, the crypto asset has become extremely valuable reaching a high today on January 3, at $34,800 per unit.

After Satoshi shared his cryptocurrency concept to a few interested individuals online on Halloween 2008, a little more than three months later he launched the hardcoded block reward, otherwise known as ‘block zero’ or the ‘genesis block.’

Block zero or the genesis block has the usual 50 bitcoin reward, but these particular bitcoins can never be spent. The genesis block has two leading hex zeroes as well, which was a common characteristic for early blocks back then. Furthermore, the infamous block zero also contained a message that can be found in the block’s coinbase parameter.

This first blockchain message etched into Satoshi’s hardcoded bitcoin block says:

The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.

The genesis block today not only has the 50 bitcoin block reward that cannot be spent, but also people have sent small fractions of bitcoin to the address ever since it was launched. The genesis block address has seen approximately 2,722 transactions and there’s now a cumulative total of 68.35 BTC sitting idle.

These days, bitcoin blocks are quite predictable and are processed every 10 minutes or so by miners. But the block (1) that followed the hardcoded genesis block did not occur until seven days later. The first transaction with the software programmer, Hal Finney, took place in block 9 or three whole days after block 1 was mined.

Satoshi Nakamoto’s Well Deserved Bitcoin Stash

Now Satoshi Nakamoto also spent time with the community, all the way until December 2010. It is well known that the inventor also mined the crypto asset during those months he spent curating the network with the community.

Interestingly, it is assumed by various academic papers that Nakamoto had mined anywhere between 700,000 to 1.1 million BTC during his tenure kickstarting the network. The inventor did this allegedly with a single Windows-based personal computer. It is also assumed that Nakamoto has not spent any coins since they were initially mined, and his stash of a million bitcoin has sat idle since they were issued.

Quite a lot of old coins that stem from coinbase rewards have not been spent and they have sat dormant for well over ten years. For example, the onchain researchers from Glassnode tweeted on December 18, 2020, that “1.78 million bitcoins have never left their miner address.”

Interestingly, last year in 2020, news.Bitcoin.com discovered an old-school miner or miners who spent a consecutive number of 2010 block rewards in strings. Every string spent last year, has been around 20 to 21 block rewards from 2010 and these coins never moved once since the day they were issued.

20 Decade-Old Block Rewards from 2010 Move on January 3, 2021, in Block 664,263

Surprisingly, the mystery miner or miners have spent another large string of ‘sleeping bitcoins’ from the Satoshi-era today on the 12th anniversary of the Bitcoin network launch. On January 3, 2021, precisely 20 block rewards from 2010 were spent at block height 664,263. The old school miner from 2010 sent the 1,000 bitcoins worth over $339 million to a BTC address that started with “35grPirp.”

After the initial consolidation, the 1,000 BTC was split up into fractions following the exact same patterns news.Bitcoin.com discovered with all the other 2010 block strings. Today’s 20 block spend was caught by Btcparser.com, and a visual perspective of the string of 2010 blocks spent on theholyroger.com’s “Satoshi Bags Tracker.”

This morning (EST) on the 12th anniversary of the Bitcoin blockchain, Btcparser.com caught 20 old school block rewards from the 2010 ‘Satoshi-era’ transfer.

Usually, this miner, if it is one single entity will spend one more 2010 block a little later on in the day to make the tally 21 block rewards spent. Decade-old block reward spends from the ‘Satoshi era’ are quite rare, but they have been picking up steam since 2020.

It is also worth noting that the old school miner always spends the corresponding bitcoin cash (BCH) block rewards too, but not the bitcoinsv (BSV) rewards. The only time the miner spent block rewards on all three chains was the 21 block rewards from 2010 spent on March 11, 2020, the day before the infamous ‘Black Thursday.’

Today’s block spends from 2010 are quite special, seeing how they were transferred on Bitcoin’s birthday, while the crypto asset also touched another all-time price high as well.

We really don’t know if these coins were sold or plan to be sold on the open market. The technical term “spent” simply means the coins left the original address they stemmed from, and it doesn’t necessarily mean the coins are being sold on exchanges. Moreover, the term “Satoshi-era,” also doesn’t mean the coins derived from Nakamoto either, as the term simply means the inventor was around during this time period.

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Researcher Publishes Never Before Seen Emails Between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney

28/11/2020 by Idelto Editor

Just recently three previously unpublished emails from Bitcoin’s inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, have been made public. The emails reveal the correspondence between Satoshi and the early Bitcoin developer Hal Finney. The communications between Nakamoto and Finney stem from November 2008 and January 2009, the very month Bitcoin was launched.

On November 27, three emails that have never been seen before were made public in an editorial written by Michael Kaplikov, a professor at Pace University. According to Kaplikov, the emails derived from the New York Times contributor Nathaniel Popper. The NYT journalist also wrote the book “Digital Gold” and Hal Finney’s wife Fran Finney gave Popper the emails at this time. Kaplikov published the emails alongside his editorial after confirming that the emails were indeed legitimate, and stemmed from the now-deceased Hal Finney’s old computer.

Hal Finney was a well-known developer during Bitcoin’s earliest days and received the very first BTC transaction from Satoshi. Finney passed away on August 28, 2014, as a result of complications from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

The first email is dated November 19, 2008, which was nineteen days after Bitcoin’s mysterious creator published the white paper. Kaplikov, who has been studying the Bitcoin origin story, said that before the email, Nakamoto shared an early version of the Bitcoin codebase with a few people including Hal Finney. The early release origin story is well known, as Ray Dillinger and James A. Donald also received pre-release copies. In the email, Finney asked Satoshi about the number of nodes and scaling the Bitcoin network.

“Some of the discussion and concern over performance may relate to the eventual size of the P2P network,” Finney wrote to Nakamoto. “How large do you envision it becoming? Tens of nodes. Thousands? Millions? And for clients, do you think this could scale to be usable for close to 100% of the world’s financial transactions? Or would you see it as mostly being used for some ‘core’ subset of transactions that have special requirements, with other transactions using a different payment system that perhaps is based on Bitcoin?”

The researcher from Pace University also highlighted that soon after this particular email, Bitcoin’s creator allowed Finney commit access to the Sourceforge repository. Then another email dated January 8, 2009, shortly after the network was launched, Satoshi wrote to Hal. “Thought you’d like to know, the Bitcoin v0.1 release with EXE and full sourcecode is up on Sourceforge,” Nakamoto wrote. The creator also detailed that release notes and screenshots were also uploaded to the web portal bitcoin.org. The very next day, Finney replied to Nakamoto’s release email.

“Hi, Satoshi, thanks very much for that information,” Finney said on January 9. “I should have a chance to look at that this weekend. I am looking forward to learning more about the code.”

Running bitcoin

— halfin (@halfin) January 11, 2009

The very next day, Hal Finney took to Twitter and told his followers he was “running bitcoin.” It seems Finney did get a chance to look at the code after his recent correspondence with Nakamoto. In addition to the three unpublished emails, Kaplikov also discussed the email correspondence between Finney and Nakamoto that was given to the Wall Street Journal back in 2014.

The reason for this is because Kaplikov discusses discrepancies with the email’s timestamps. Kaplikov stresses that the January 2009 emails appear to be roughly eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Just recently, new research from The Chain Bulletin contributor Doncho Karaivanov tried to pinpoint Satoshi’s home location by leveraging all his activity and scatter charts of all the timestamps.

Karaivanov’s study assumes that Satoshi Nakamoto lived in London (GMT) when he/she or they created the Bitcoin project. However, studies from the past show that Nakamoto could have also resided in California on the west coast and some have asserted he lived on the eastern side of the United States. Moreover, it is also assumed in a few of the studies that Satoshi Nakamoto pulled a lot of ‘all-nighters’ and crammed his work before he left the project.

Finney passed away on August 28, 2014, after suffering from complications from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Bitcoiners and crypto proponents everywhere think of Finney in the highest regard, as he once said that the computer could help liberate people.

“It seemed so obvious to me,” Finney explained before his death. “Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization – and [David] Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.”

The recently published emails are interesting and give some new insight into the early relationship between Nakamoto and Finney. The emails and Finney’s post on Twitter on January 10, clearly show he was very excited about this project and specifically made time available to look at Bitcoin right away. The email timestamps simply add more to the Satoshi Nakamoto identity mystery, and the uncertainty of the inventor’s whereabouts during the cryptocurrency’s creation period.

What do you think about the email correspondence between Nakamoto and Finney? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

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The Many Facts Pointing to John Nash Being Satoshi Nakamoto

27/10/2020 by Idelto Editor

Six years ago, a number of theories spread across the internet that claimed the famed American economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. was Satoshi Nakamoto. There’s a bunch of circumstantial evidence that has invoked some research into the possibility that Nash could have been Bitcoin’s creator. The following editorial is the ninth installment of news.Bitcoin.com’s “the many facts” series, with a comprehensive look at some of the evidence that is tied to John Nash and Bitcoin’s mysterious creator.

During the last decade, there’s been a wide variety of individuals that people suspect could be Bitcoin’s inventor. In 2014 and 2015, a number of armchair sleuths published research posts that claimed the well known economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. created blockchain technology.

Nash is quite popular for numerous reasons especially his contributions to economics, mathematics, and complex systems found in game theory. The mathematical genius is also well known because of the award-winning movie “A Beautiful Mind,” which was a biographical interpretation of his life.

Six years ago, a few bitcoiners and armchair sleuths tried to tie John Forbes Nash Jr. to Satoshi Nakamoto and the creation of Bitcoin.

Nash was also a Nobel prize winner for his work in economic sciences and he earned his Ph.D. by leveraging a 28-page dissertation on non-cooperative games. Over six years ago, Nash was considered a prime suspect in the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery and a number of bitcoiners have tried to tether the two individuals.

Some people suspect that Nash possibly helped with the project and assume Bitcoin may have been created by a group of geniuses. For instance, back in mid-June 2015, the author Travis Patron wrote an editorial called “Did Mathematician John Nash Help Invent Bitcoin?” which proposes the question.

Patron’s theory, like many others during that time, talks about a paper Nash wrote called the “Ideal Money” which Nash published on various occasions between 1994 through 2008.

“Nash described this ideal of money as something which could provide a global savings outlet for people who would otherwise be subject to ‘bad money’, or money expected to lose value over time under conditions of inflation among other things,” Patron wrote.

In 1994 and for close to a decade John Forbes Nash Jr. was infatuated with the “Ideal Money” paper he had written and a number of people believe there are similarities between Bitcoin and Nash’s ideal money concept.

The Nobel Laureate’s paper about ideal money made a number of mainstream headlines in the press after he published the work. One headline, in particular, dubbed “Nobel Economist Says More Stable Currency Needed,” was published on Fordham University’s website a month and a half before Satoshi published the Bitcoin white paper on Halloween 2008.

Patron’s research describes two more papers that align with the Bitcoin network including a speech about the ideal money published in the Southern Economic Journal, and another paper from 2002.

The author is not the only one who believed Nash could have been involved, as a Reddit post written six years ago describes how Nash was Bitcoin’s creator. “John is an award-winning cryptographer, mathematician, and a Nobel prize-winning economist,” the Redditor wrote at the time. “This trifecta is key in understanding the genius behind Bitcoin as all three schools of thought came together.”

The armchair sleuth from 2014 added:

He’s been operating under several ‘schizophrenic’ false identities on the internet since the ’90s. His timezone/geographic location, access to computers within the faculty in Princeton (for early Bitcoin mining), and his raw genius are all parallel with what we already know about the real Satoshi Nakamoto, including his writing style, which also matches Nick Szabo’s.

The author also cited a Youtube video that described Nash’s political ideas and goals when it comes to the ideal money. The armchair sleuth said the video gave him “goosebumps” because of the similarities it had with the open Bitcoin network. News.Bitcoin.com readers can check out the video about John Nash with Martin Edwards below.

In addition to the Reddit post, an anonymous publisher from the web portal dubbed the “Financial Underground Kingdom” also released an editorial that claims John Nash could be Satoshi Nakamoto. The unknown author also says that it’s possible that Nash worked with Nick Szabo and Wei Dai during the creation period.

The drawing above is called Parallel Control, drawn by John Nash in 1954.

The editorial speaks about a letter Nash wrote in 1955 to the National Security Agency (NSA), which was declassified years later by the intelligence agency. Nash’s letter described an “encryption machine of his design,” one that did not interest the NSA and the project was soon forgotten. The anonymous writer says the letter pretty much sums up the fact that Nash was probably Bitcoin’s inventor.

“This man (John Nash) fills every single one of Satoshi’s markers and more, he rewrote the economy already, defined the encryption race 50 years ago,” the anon said. “He has since been touring the world, talking about a new kind of money technology and how it is going to give the people ‘the power’ vs government ‘schemes’ of money printing.”

The editorial continued:

[John Nash] is Satoshi, nothing is hidden it’s all in plain view. It makes 100% perfect sense now, but 20 years ago when the lecture was given, it was complete gibberish. How do you explain to a world population that everything will be different because of what you are about to do? How do you break it to them slowly before they rip you apart out of fear?

In the letter to the NSA, Nash said: “I am speaking about a research project that is not fully complete since I have not yet written up and submitted for publication any paper or papers describing the work. Also, the details of what axioms to use and how to select the basic set theory underlying the hierarchical extension to be constructed are not fully crystallized.”

There have also been a number of other theories concerning Nash and Satoshi’s alleged ties at the end of May 2015. Nash and his wife were killed in a car crash in 2015 and after he died on May 23, bitcoiners started sleuthing again.

John Forbes Nash Jr. and his wife passed away in a bad car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike on May 23, 2015.

Bitcoin proponents started to discuss the theory that erupted on Bitcointalk.org a year prior in September 2014. The interesting notion tethers Nash to Satoshi’s identity with a great deal of circumstantial evidence and a lot of speculation. The Nash speculation started after the owner of Bitcointalk.org, Theymos, received an ostensible, compromised email from Satoshi’s GMX email handle during the first week of September.

Many years have passed since this theory was revolving around the web and the sleuthing seemed to have stopped after Nash passed away. The internet is littered with theories that people have composed in order to tether the two geniuses together, but no one has ever provided a smoking gun.

John Forbes Nash Jr. definitely had the know-how to create Bitcoin but now that he’s gone, it would be even harder to prove, similar to the mysterious Hal Finney theories. Nash is just another individual on the list of possible suspects and the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto continues to remain unknown. Nash did discuss Bitcoin during a keynote presentation at Oxford University, which was published in February 2015. News.Bitcoin.com readers can watch his lecture where he discusses “Bitcoin Honesty” in the video embedded below.

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The Search for Satoshi Nakamoto: A Look at 7 Suspected Bitcoin Creators

07/10/2020 by Idelto Editor

During the last decade, cryptocurrency enthusiasts have discussed the true identity of Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto. To this day, the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery continues to prevail, and throughout the years there’s been a great number of suspects and self-proclaimed crypto inventors.

Halloween is approaching and twelve years ago on October 31, 2008, Bitcoin’s inventor published the cryptocurrency’s introductory white paper. Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the pseudonymous person or persons that wrote the white paper and developed the original Bitcoin codebase. By developing the first blockchain distributed ledger, Nakamoto essentially solved the infamous computational issue called the “Byzantine generals’ problem” or the “Byzantine Fault.”

Nakamoto left the Bitcoin project and public eye in December 2010 and during the last decade, people have been hunting relentlessly for the mysterious creator. News.Bitcoin.com has written a number of articles about the possibility of certain individuals that could be Satoshi in a series called “The Many Facts.” The series has been one of our most popular chain of Satoshi Nakamoto articles, and the following post is a list of seven suspects we’ve covered so far.

The List of Suspected Satoshis

Hal Finney

The first article in our series was called “The Many Facts Pointing to Hal Finney Being Satoshi Nakamoto,” which discusses the possibility of Finney being Bitcoin’s creator. Finney is probably one of the most popular Satoshi candidates and the editorial gives a comprehensive look at why.

For instance, Finney was an experienced developer and one of the first individuals to run the Bitcoin codebase. Harold Thomas Finney II definitely had the expertise to invent Bitcoin, as he was a prominent developer for the PGP Corporation.

The editorial’s facts pointing to this possibility include his Libertarian leanings, his location in California, and his simultaneous retirement timeframe from the PGP Corporation. Finney was also the network’s first transaction recipient. Despite the many clues, Finney passed away in August 2014 and to this day, no one can truly confirm if the California-based cypherpunk was Satoshi.

Nick Szabo

The second installment of the “The Many Facts” series involves the computer scientist Nick Szabo. On November 27, 2019, news.Bitcoin.com contributor Graham Smith discussed how Szabo could be Bitcoin’s creator. Smith details how Szabo created a project called bit gold, which was released before Bitcoin.

Szabo also coined the term and the concept “smarts contracts” and has written extensively about cryptography and contract law. Some interesting factoids include how the Bit Gold blog post publishing date was altered and how Wei Dai reportedly told Satoshi about Bit Gold creation in an email conversation.

In addition to the second part of the series, news.Bitcoin.com also published an opinion editorial called “Why Nick Szabo Probably Isn’t Satoshi.” In the article, author Deryk Makgill explains why he believes Szabo isn’t really a cypherpunk, he doesn’t share the same vision for Bitcoin, and Szabo’s altered blog post date is sketchy.

“If Nick Szabo is Satoshi, he has done a remarkable job of leaving bread crumbs that point the opposite way,” Makgill concludes.

Shinichi Mochizuki

In December 2019, news.Bitcoin.com published the third installment dubbed “The Many Facts Pointing to Shinichi Mochizuki Being Satoshi.” Shinichi Mochizuki is an obscure character and not widely known, but his long history of mathematical innovation makes him a Satoshi suspect.

Besides being a mathematics prodigy, Mochizuki has an American background and British English writing style just like Bitcoin’s creator. The computer scientist and inventor of Hypertext, Ted Nelson, said he believes Mochizuki is Satoshi in a video. Despite being able to create the blockchain codebase, Mochizuki has fallen off the map when it comes to Satoshi suspects.

Ian Grigg

The fourth part of the Satoshi Nakamoto series involves the financial cryptographer and inventor of Ricardian contracts Ian Grigg. In this article, it discussed the many facts that show Grigg could possibly be Satoshi and how he has the technical expertise. For instance, the article mentions how Grigg wrote his 2005 paper called “Triple-Entry Accounting.”

The paper discussed the concept of blockchain technology and solving the “Byzantine generals’ problem” three years before Bitcoin was introduced. Grigg is also associated with the self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright. His associations with Wright have made people believe Grigg was part of a team that called themselves “Satoshi Nakamoto.” Additionally, data scientist Michael Chon said Satoshi’s emails matched Grigg’s writing style in a stylometry test.

Dorian Nakamoto

The California-native and Japanese American engineer Dorian Nakamoto was accused of being Satoshi back in March 2014. This was when Newsweek columnist Leah McGrath Goodman published a story called “The Face Behind Bitcoin.” Again, McGrath-Goodman’s editorial was based on speculation that Dorian was at least capable of producing the blockchain codebase.

She quoted him as saying “I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it” and she also noted that Dorian’s birth name is actually Satoshi Nakamoto. Dorian’s story was covered in the fifth installment of news.Bitcoin.com’s popular series.

However, when Dorian said he was “no longer involved in that” he wasn’t referring to Bitcoin, and he was actually talking about classified engineering projects he worked on for the government. McGrath-Goodman’s questions were taken out of context and she wrote an awful hit piece about the California resident. Dorian had immediately denied being Satoshi when he spoke with a reporter from the Associated Press (AP) about the incident with the Newsweek journalist who doxxed him.

Wei Dai

In the sixth installment of “The Many Facts” Satoshi articles news.Bitcoin.com discussed the creator of b-money Wei Dai. All of the evidence that points to Dai being Satoshi is purely circumstantial, and again based on the fact that he is capable of the creation.

Moreover, Dai is referenced in the Bitcoin white paper, as the technology’s creator cited the b-money white paper. Further, there are entropy similarities between Wei Dai and Satoshi Nakamoto’s written text. However, it seems Dai and Nakamoto wrote to each other via email correspondence and Dai would have to have been playing ‘double agent’ roles.

Adam Back

The Blockstream CEO, Adam Back, is mentioned in the seventh installment of news.Bitcoin.com’s “The Many Facts” series. The reason Back made the list is because of a video published on May 11, 2020, by the Youtube channel “Barely Social.” The video called “Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto,” claims that Back could possibly be the creator of Bitcoin.

Barely Social cites a few reasons including the Blockstream CEO describing the technology as early as 1998. Back also dipped out of the public eye, while Satoshi Nakamoto was with the community, and returned almost as soon as Satoshi left in 2010. The video also compares Satoshi’s writing style with Back’s written penmanship, as they both double space and spell their words in a British fashion.

Barely Social did highlight during the video that Adam Back could always leverage plausible deniability for this accusation. Back did deny the accusation and also debated the subject on social media with Barely Social’s official Twitter account. Since mid-May 2020, Barely Social’s video has seen 478,928 views so far.

Many More Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventors and Suspected Satoshi’s

Of course, the list represented in “The Many Facts” series is still incomplete, as there are many other suspects that have not yet appeared in news.Bitcoin.com’s sequence of Satoshi articles.

There are many more self-styled Nakamotos and suspects and one could write a book about the slew of unique individuals. For instance, there’s Craig Wright, a friend of the Escobar family, the criminal mastermind Paul Le Roux, Duality, former Bitcoin lead maintainer Gavin Andresen, Bittorrent creator Bram Cohen, Craig Wright’s former business partner Dave Kleiman, the Hawaiian patent holder Ronald Keala Kua Maria, Fabio impersonator Jörg Molt, the Pakastani press release candidate Bilal Khalid, and the Belgium native Debo Jurgen Etienne Guido.

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