New Speculations on the Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto
In 2002, a person identified as "x" wrote a post to the Usenet newsgroups alt.internet.p2p and uk.finance, titled "Virtual peer to peer banking." The post describes a system with interesting similarities to Bitcoin: "I have this idea of a future with virtual peer to peer banking. A kind of decentralized and secured system. Gone would be the times that governments and banks can track and interfere with our money transfers. Or even interfere with the total amount of money on earth. My envisioned sytem would have a fixed total amount of money. But each money unit (say virtual coin) is....
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Bitcoin was first introduced in a paper by "Satoshi Nakamoto" back in 2009. Since then the cryptocurrency rose to fame and inspired a lot of bitcoin-based startups to set up shop, potentially revolutionizing the financial industry. However, not much has been said about the real identity of who introduced this concept in the first place. Satoshi Nakamoto was known to communicate with other bitcoin enthusiasts only through email, never in person or by phone. By 2011, all communications from him ceased. Satoshi Nakamoto from Washington? There have been many speculations on who Satoshi....
In a time of universal surveillance, being anonymous is a revolutionary act. They often say that you come to Bitcoin for the technology and hang around for the drama. Yesterday there was plenty on display. From a death threat to a new message from the hacked Satoshi Nakamoto's account on the now famous p2pfoundation pages. All fun and games, but the hackers claim to know Satoshi's identity. There is little doubt that the hackers have access to the actual account. As much was shown by a screenshot of the account's inbox and by forwarded emails to a Bitcoin developer dating as far back as....
There's no doubt about the fact that the bitcoin community has voiced their opinions on a Newsweek exposé of the alleged Satoshi Nakamoto (long story short: outrage and disappointment) by Leah McGrath Goodman, but now the Bitcoin Foundation is chiming in. "Today we have seen heightened media speculation on the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto," the advocacy group writes in their response, entitled We Are All Bitcoin. "As of this writing, we have seen zero conclusive evidence that the identified person is the designer of Bitcoin. Those closest to the Bitcoin project, the informal team of core....
Investigations by major tech outlets Wired and Gizmodo may have potentially identified bitcoin's creator. Satoshi Nakamoto, they say, is 44-year-old Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright, who is thought to have created the bitcoin protocol alongside US forensic researcher David Kleiman, now deceased. This, however, is not the first time that major news outlets embark on a quest to decipher the identity of bitcoin's mysterious creator. With Satoshi Nakamoto's identity still unconfirmed, CoinDesk has created a poll to find out exactly what its readership thinks about the most recent....
In the most recent attempt to uncover the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, both Wired and Gizmodo released information this week that they claim points to Australian entrepreneur Dr. Craig Steven Wright. Their accounts have already been disputed, and many questions linger. But the most relevant question is: does it matter who Satoshi is? The identity of....