FIND OUT EVERYTHING ABOUT THE CREATOR OF BITCOIN
Satoshi Nakamoto was marked by his creation #bitcoin.” There are many inventions that were essential in the history of humanity, but that do not have a specific known creator. The wheel, agriculture and writing are some of them. And in that same list of great inventions is Bitcoin. After all, more than 14 years after its creation and no one still knows the answer: who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
The only thing that is known is that Satoshi Nakamoto is the name given to the creator of Bitcoin. The first message sent by the unknown was precisely the announcement of the creation of Bitcoin, in October 2008. At the time, Satoshi announced that he was “working on a new electronic cash system completely peer-to-peer, without trusted third parties.”
After releasing the white paper, Satoshi released the first version of the Bitcoin software client in 2009. Over the next two years, he participated in the project via mailing lists, enlisting the help of others. Since then, Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto have gone hand in hand or almost. Many of these people are now speculated to be the real Satoshi, as we will see throughout the text.
Nakamoto worked with people on the open source team, but was careful never to reveal anything personal about himself. He eventually started participating less in the community until in late 2010, he disappeared completely. Satoshi's last message on the famous Bitcointalk forum was on December 11, 2010. After this message, Satoshi wrote his final farewell saying that he was “moving on to other projects.” He left Gavin Andressen as a kind of representative of himself to the community, and then he disappeared. No other posts, documents or anything written by Satoshi have been identified since.
Many people study these documents that have great historical value in search of signs that help discover their identity. However, the task has been difficult. Not even the Bitcoins that Satoshi accumulated were ever spent or sent to exchanges, which makes tracking them difficult.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Because of this secret, one of the best kept in modern history, in recent years there has been a lot of speculation regarding who the person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto could be. Or if there is only one person behind it. In this text, we will learn about some theories about people who could be Satoshi:
Wei Dai;
Lazlo Haniecz;
Dorian Nakamoto;
Hal Finney;
Nick Szabo;
Craig S. Wright;
Group theory.
Wei Dai
Wei Dai was just as successful at hiding his true identity as Satoshi. However, Dai's work was one of the few cited by Satoshi in the Bitcoin white paper references. Therefore, he is naturally listed as one of the candidates for the position. But he has always denied being the creator of Bitcoin.
Dai's works demonstrate great expertise in cryptography. Its main creation was b-money, a payment system that worked very similar to the $BTC blockchain.
This reinforces the hypothesis that Dai was the creator of the cryptocurrency. Note the similarity between some b-money concepts and Bitcoin:
b-money transactions were recorded in a type of ledger;
This ledger would have copies distributed among computers;
Each copy was updated whenever a transaction was executed;
An update to this system would require the “deposit” of funds to record transactions, something similar to Proof of Stake mining.
Lazlo Haniecz
If you've heard and celebrated about Bitcoin Pizza Day, Lazlo Hanyecz was one of those responsible for its creation. On May 22, 2010, he made the first purchase with payment in Bitcoin in history. There were two pizzas paid for by 10 thousand Bitcoins. The date became famous and serves as a celebration for many enthusiasts. In fact, the two, Satoshi and Hanyecz, even exchanged messages. The latter sent an email to Satoshi with his GPU miner code. In turn, Satoshi shared with him his version of the code he had prepared in case of a 51% attack on the Bitcoin network. However, there is no evidence that Hanyecz is Satoshi, he himself has admitted that the creator of Bitcoin invented GPU mining before him.
Dorian Nakamoto
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto is an oriental descendant, software developer who has the same name as the creator of Bitcoin. Obviously Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto (yes, that's his official name) couldn't be left out. Dorian has denied, more than once, being the creator of Bitcoin. Even so, he ended up becoming the “official” face of cryptocurrency in memes and other publications.
Speculation about him arose in March 2014. At the time, a Newsweek article was written by columnist Leah Goodman. The text, titled “The Face Behind Bitcoin” (The Face Behind Bitcoin, in literal translation) brought Dorian’s name. He was a retired physicist and engineer who worked for the US government.
Hal Finney
Hal Finney is one of the most important names in the history of Bitcoin. He was one of the first people to run a Bitcoin full node, on January 11, 2009. And he was also the one who received the first Bitcoin transaction in history, a transaction that came from Satoshi Nakamoto himself.
Far beyond that, Finney is responsible for making several contributions to the Bitcoin network. He developed the concept of asymmetric encryption keys. Furthermore, he participated in the same discussion group where the Bitcoin whitepaper was released. And to complete the theory, he lived a few blocks from the house of the previous “suspect”, Dorian.
However, he always denied being the person behind Satoshi. Part of the Bitcoins he received were even spent on treating Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a disease that ended up taking his life in 2014. His body was cryogenically preserved in the hope that one day they would find a cure for the disease and be able to revive him.
Nick Szabo
Nick Szabo is one of the leading polymaths in the cryptocurrency community. He is a jurist, cryptographer and has written several treatises on both topics, as well as economic treatises. And he was already involved with digital currencies even before the creation of Bitcoin.
Between 1998 and 2005, Szabo developed a mechanism for a decentralized digital currency that he called “Bit Gold”. Despite not having been implemented, many consider this to be the precursor to Bitcoin. He also remained silent from the appearance of Bitcoin until mid-2009, when he mentioned the cryptocurrency on his blog.
Furthermore, Szabo is considered one of the creators of the concept of smart contracts. He even wrote an article on this topic in 1997. This, combined with the silence regarding the first cryptocurrency, arouses suspicions that he was involved in the creation of Bitcoin. However, Szabo has always denied being the real Satoshi Nakamoto.
Craig S. Wright
In August 2015, Wired magazine wrote an article that revealed the supposed identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. According to the article, the creator of Bitcoin would be Craig Steven Wright, an Australian entrepreneur and cryptographer. Wright was a professor and researcher at Charles Sturt University.
Unlike the other names on the list, Wright always claimed that he was Satoshi Nakamoto. The admission began in 2016 and since then he has always talked about Bitcoin as if he were Satoshi. However, to this day he has not provided any solid evidence to prove his claims.
Group theory
What if, instead of one creator, Bitcoin was the work of all these minds together? It is an extremely complex tool that solves several monetary and computational problems. Due to this complexity, many believe that it would be impossible for there to be a creator for Bitcoin, and that its creation could only be a group effort.
Bitcoin's code is far from perfect. However, it was extremely well written and detailed. That leaves: two alternatives: either Satoshi is a super genius or he is a group of people. In fact, it could even be a union of efforts from everyone on this list. After all, they all have common characteristics:
They are people with libertarian thinking;
They have advanced knowledge in cryptography and, in many cases, in economics;
Made contributions to Bitcoin after its emergence or before it;
They created technologies that were adopted by Satoshi and incorporated into Bitcoin.
Two of them, Wei Dai and Nick Szabo, are cited directly in the Bitcoin white paper. And a project of this magnitude demands, in addition to in-depth knowledge in several areas, a great effort to program. Therefore, the group theory is one of the most accepted among Bitcoin enthusiasts to explain its creation.
Satoshi Hoje
Even after 14 years or more since the emergence of Bitcoin, no one knows who Satoshi is today. The creator of Bitcoin has achieved an impressive feat of remaining completely anonymous forever. On top of that, he managed to create a project that does not depend on his physical or virtual presence to be executed.
Currently, there is an organization called Nakamoto Institute, whose materials are free. The site has several messages, emails and other communications that Satoshi Nakamoto sent during the period in which he was active. Despite many analyses, no one has managed to discover concrete clues about Satoshi's identity.
Fonte: CriptoFacil
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