Satoshi Nakamoto was born on 5 April 1975 and is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation.
15 Facts About Satoshi Nakamoto
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Satoshi Nakamoto was active in the development of bitcoin up until December 2010.
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Satoshi Nakamoto stated that work on the writing of the code for Bitcoin began in 2007.
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On 9 January 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto released version 0.1 of the Bitcoin software on SourceForge, and launched the network by defining the genesis block of bitcoin, which had a reward of 50 bitcoins.
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Satoshi Nakamoto continued to collaborate with other developers on the bitcoin software until mid-2010, making all modifications to the source code himself.
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Satoshi Nakamoto then gave control of the source code repository and network alert key to Gavin Andresen, transferred several related domains to various prominent members of the bitcoin community, and stopped his recognized involvement in the project.
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Satoshi Nakamoto has never revealed personal information when discussing technical matters, though has at times provided commentary on banking and fractional-reserve banking.
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On his P2P Foundation profile as of 2012, Satoshi Nakamoto claimed to be a 37-year-old male who lived in Japan; however, some speculated he was unlikely to be Japanese due to his native-level use of English.
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The reference to London's Times newspaper in the first bitcoin block mined by Satoshi Nakamoto suggested to some a particular interest in the British government.
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The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is unknown, but speculations have focussed on various cryptography and computer science experts, mostly of non-Japanese descent.
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Satoshi Nakamoto is known to have been interested in using pseudonyms in the 1990s.
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Wright's team claimed this was "government agency recognition of Craig Wright as Satoshi Nakamoto"; the United States Copyright Office issued a press release clarifying that this was not the case.
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All three men denied being Satoshi Nakamoto when contacted by Penenberg.
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In May 2013, Ted Nelson speculated that Satoshi Nakamoto was Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki.
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In 2016, the Financial Times said that Satoshi Nakamoto might have been a group of people, mentioning Hal Finney, Nick Szabo and Adam Back as potential members.