The Search for Satoshi
In his new book, Bitcoin: the Future of Money?, Dominic Frisby looks at bitcoin's Cypherpunk roots and considers the exciting future that is opening up for blockchain tech. In this excerpt, he is on the search for bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. One of the first places where Satoshi Nakamoto mentioned bitcoin was at the P2PFoundation.ning.com. When you register there, you have to give your birthdate. Satoshi gave April 5th 1975. There might, at first, seem nothing unusual about that. It's easy to look through history, find some event that took place on April 5th and then attach some....
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