Satoshi Nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto is the ubiquitous and mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto authored the bitcoin white paper and was active in Bitcoin’s development until December 2010, when he posted his final message on the bitcointalk.org forums.

Satoshi’s identity remains a mystery until today, with several individuals having claimed or speculated to be Nakamoto himself. Nakamoto possibly owns around 1 million Bitcoins, but others believe this is unlikely due to Nakamoto’s desire for a fair launch. The majority of Satoshi-era wallets continue to stay dormant, and his/her identify remains unknown.

Satoshi Nakamoto in the News

Gavin Andresen edits his now famous blog post to say “I now know it was a mistake to trust Craig Wright as much as I did”

2023/02/01

Elon says he thinks Nick Szabo might be Satoshi

2021/12/29

Craig Wright wins court case and is award half of the 1.1 million BTC mined by Satoshi

2021/12/06

Gavin Andresen also says it’s “possible” he was “bamboozled” by Craig Wright

2016/05/02

Gavin Andresen gets tricked into believing Craig Wright is Satoshi

2016/05/02

Jeff Garzik says Craig Wright’s evidence “could have been produced by anyone”

2016/05/02

Craig Wright posts on his blog that he is Satoshi

2016/05/02

Wired suggests Craig Wright might be Satoshi

2015/12/08

Hal Finney passes away due to complications from ALS

2014/08/30

Dorian Nakamoto goes on record saying “I have nothing to do with Bitcoin, nothing to do with developing.”

2014/03/07

Newsweek claims to have uncovered Satoshi’s identity

2014/03/06

Satoshi sends his final email to Gavin Andresen

2011/04/26

Satoshi hands over control of the Bitcoin source code to Gavin Andresen

2010/12/19

Satoshi posts his final message in the bitcointalk.org forums

2010/12/11

The first Bitcoin transaction: Satoshi sends 10 BTC to Hal Finney

2009/01/12

Version 0.1 of the Bitcoin software is released

2009/01/09

Satoshi announces Bitcoin

2008/10/31

Wei Dai receives an email from Satoshi asking to cite b-money

2008/08/22

David Chaum releases the first known proposal for a blockchain protocol

1982/04/04

Satoshi Nakamoto FAQ

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Why did Satoshi disappear?

Satoshi Nakamoto Links

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