Everybody loves a good mystery. The world of crypto has produced one of the biggest mysteries of the 21st century: Who Is #SatoshiNakamoto ?

#Nakamoto is the anonymous individual who claims to have created Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s first cryptocurrency.

While there is little doubt that the person or persons who operated under the name Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, nobody knows who he, she or they might be.

Nakamoto was the author of the white paper, laying out the theory and operating structure of the Bitcoin payment system.

In February 2009, Nakamoto created the first ever online message board post dedicated to cryptocurrency, on the P2P Foundation forum.

In this post, Nakamoto stated, “I’ve developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It’s completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust. Give it a try, or take a look at the screenshots and design paper.”

Since that first post, millions of people have followed his advice.

By 2021, at least 1 million Bitcoin miners were verifying the data that make up the Bitcoin blockchain. However, those 1 million miners represent a fraction of the total number of Bitcoin holders, estimated to be more than 100 million people.

Today, Bitcoin is the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, beating out all of the other major cryptocurrencies like Ethereum (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB), Cardano (ADA), and many more.

But even with BTC’s astronomical value and adoption, we still don’t know the identity of Satoshi Nakomoto.

Is Satoshi Nakamoto a Real Person?

There is at least one real person behind the name Satoshi Nakamoto. We know this because somebody created Bitcoin’s source code, published its white paper, sent emails and made forum posts about the cryptocurrency.

But the last email from Nakamoto was in April 2011. It was a short statement to a fellow developer where the Bitcoin creator said he had “moved onto other things.”

A final forum post credited to Nakamoto was made in March 2014.