Satoshi Institute reveals Satoshi's Bitcoin history

Satoshi Institute reveals Satoshi's Bitcoin history

Satoshi Nakamoto's broke a three year long silence, telling the world he is not Dorian Nakamoto (photo). Every post he made can be found in the database of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Satoshi Nakamoto remains an obscure figure to most people that are involved in cryptocurrencies. As the creator of Bitcoin, he is the reason we are all here. You would not be reading this article if it weren't for him. Heck, I would not have written this text, and we would probably think virtual currencies could only exist in a galaxy far, far away. Inventor of Bitcoin. However, Nakamoto is real. Whether....


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Satoshi

This is a guest post by Derek Watson. So, it turns out that Satoshi Nakamoto is not Satoshi Nakamoto. According to Andreas Antonopoulos, who was charged with giving him the bitcoins that had been raised for him as a sort of apology for the Newsweek fiasco (and explaining what they were), he doesn't know how to use a Web browser. So, assuming that Satoshi didn't invent the Bitcoin protocol, have a stroke and retire to build model railway engines, what should we think about the Creator? A lot of effort has been put into trying to work out who Satoshi is. His last words were that he was....