Early meeting of E-Gold founders may hold clue to Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity...
Did Satoshi Nakamoto work on E-Gold? If so, Peter Thiel thinks he has a way to narrow down the identity of Bitcoin’s creator. PayPal co-founder and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel believes he may hold a clue on how to find Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s (BTC) pseudonymous creator who disappeared two years after mining the cryptocurrency’s genesis block in January 2009. His theory stems from an early meeting of E-Gold founders in February 2000, where roughly 200 people coalesced around a beach in Anguilla to devise a strategy for promoting a new currency system that could challenge....
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The legend of Satoshi Nakamoto lives on. A bitcoin enthusiast that goes by Jim Blasko claims to have found “the lost Bitcoin v0.1 raw data and files.” Skepticism would be the normal reaction to outlandish claims like these, but here’s the kicker: the code is still in Soundforge. That is, Satoshi Nakamoto’s original code disappeared […]
Over the last twelve years, the cryptocurrency community has always been intrigued by Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. For over a decade, armchair sleuths and journalists have tried to uncover the creator’s identity and information on the whereabouts of all the bitcoins the enigma mined when the network was still in its infancy. Now a few individuals believe Satoshi’s coins may be the greatest prize competition ever and the private keys are somehow hidden within the blockchain. Maybe Satoshi Nakamoto Left a Message? Just recently, some members of the forum....
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Fragments of Satoshi Nakamoto’s secret identity, the genius responsible for the birth of Bitcoin (BTC), have resurfaced, shedding new light on the creation of the world’s first cryptocurrency. This revelation comes in the form of an email, hitherto undisclosed, bearing the date of August 22, 2008. The email, directed to computer scientist Wei Dai, offers […]
Satoshi Nakomoto, the creator of Bitcoin apparently broke two years of silence to deny Newsweek's claim to having discovered his real identity. On the P2P Foundation forum on which he initially announced Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakomoto (or someone with access to his account) simply stated, "I am not Dorian Nakomoto." This denial, echoing Dorian Nakomoto's recent denial to the Associated Press, serves to muddy the waters further as to Satoshi Nakomoto's true identity. It seems the wider Bitcoin community remains skeptical of Newsweek's story, requiring as proof either a message signed with....