Who is Satoshi Nakamoto ?Satoshi Nakamoto is a talented cipher and coder.
Wrote the whitepaper on bitcoin "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" and published it on the cypherpunks mailing list in October 2008
Developed the code for bitcoin and founded https://bitcointalk.org
He used an e-mail address and a web site that is untraceable.
In 2009 and 2010, he wrote hundreds of posts in flawless English.
He invited other software developers to help him improve the code, and corresponded with them,
He never revealed any personal details.
Stefan Thomas, a Swiss coder and active community member, graphed the time stamps for each of Nakamoto's bitcoin forum posts and found:
He made almost no posts between the hours of 5 a.m. and 11 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time.
In April, 2011, he sent a note to a developer saying that he had “moved on to other things.” He has not been heard from since.
His birthday is said to be on April 5, 1975 according to this post.
(But it is likely that he didn't select his real birth-date)
His writing is clean, with few typos.
He shows a high proficiency in English. Making very few mistakes.
After his first post, in which he used American spelling, he switched to English spelling for all the rest. From: "Satoshi Nakamoto" <
satoshi@anonymousspeech.com>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 4:38 PM
To: "Wei Dai" <
weidai@ibiblio.org>
Cc: "Satoshi Nakamoto" <
satoshi@anonymousspeech.com>
Subject: Citation of your b-money page
I was very interested to read your b-money page. I'm getting ready to
release a paper that expands on your ideas into a complete working system.
Adam Back (hashcash.org) noticed the similarities and pointed me to your
site.
I need to find out the year of publication of your b-money page for the
citation in my paper. It'll look like:
[1] W. Dai, "b-money,"
http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt, (2006?).
You can download a pre-release draft at
http://www.upload.ae/file/6157/ecash-pdf.html Feel free to forward it to
anyone else you think would be interested.
Title: Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party
Abstract: A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow
online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without the
burdens of going through a financial institution. Digital signatures
offer part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted
party is still required to prevent double-spending. We propose a solution
to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network
timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of
hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without
redoing the proof-of-work. The longest chain not only serves as proof of
the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came from the largest
pool of CPU power. As long as honest nodes control the most CPU power on
the network, they can generate the longest chain and outpace any
attackers. The network itself requires minimal structure. Messages are
broadcasted on a best effort basis, and nodes can leave and rejoin the
network at will, accepting the longest proof-of-work chain as proof of
what happened while they were gone.
Satoshi
Was Satoshi a good coder ?
It was pretty good: I'd give it a grade of B+. The worst problem was that there were only a few, huge files, but if you ignored that then it made a lot of sense. It was written in (then-)modern C++, clearly with a lot of care. It was clearly not written in a stream-of-consciousness manner. There were very few bugs that you could blame on lack of programming skill.
My personal suspicion in this area is that Satoshi was never (or not recently) a full-time programmer, but he was pretty familiar with computer science (maybe a student or academic?), and he'd read some comprehensive C++ book just before starting on Bitcoin, so he made full and correct usage of C++ features in a slightly messy way.
Someone hacked Satoshis email account to try and discover who he is:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2062951.0There are websites dedicated to preserving the writings of Satoshi Nakamoto:
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/http://satoshinakamoto.me/The Dai / Nakamoto Emails:
https://www.gwern.net/docs/bitcoin/2008-nakamotoSatoshi Nakamoto translated (meaning)
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@decentro/satoshi-nakamoto-a-comprehensive-translation-of-an-enigma
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=399281.msg4336076#msg4336076Lots of people have been suspected of being Satoshi:People who corresponded with him have all been named as suspects: Hal Finney, Martti Malmi, Adam Back, Michael Marquardt, Gavin Andresen and Wei Dai.
But in doing so are we minimising those individuals own contribution to Bitcoin.
They may not be the founder but they are the apostles.
Bitcoin is a collaboration of efforts based on a combination of ideas all consolidated in this whitepaper
It was then executed by a group of individuals, both identified and anonymous.
Many threads with some compelling arguments have been made about it.
I'm not going to duplicate the theories but have instead provided the links to various theories on here:People or organisations that have been suspected of being Satoshi:
Charles Bry, David Chaum, Neal J. King, Shinichi Mochizuki, John Nash, Tatsuaki Okamoto, Vladimir Oksman, Gavin Andresen, Andreas Antonopoulos, Peter Bachman, John Perry Barlow, Doug Barnes, Michel Bauwens, BCNext, Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Bell, Kay Bell, Tamas Blummer, Nicholas Bohm, S. Boxx, Stefan Brands, Eli Brandt, Greg Broiles, Patrick Byrne, Jan Camenisch, Arthur Chandler, Jim Choate, Igor Chudov, Bram Cohen, Nick Collision, Matt Corallo, Geoff Dale, Luke Dashjr, L.Detweiler, Whitfield Diffie, Ray Dillinger, Jamie Dinkelacker, James A. Donald, Dooglus, Barry Downey, Evan Duffield, Vincent Durham, Tony Eng, Dan Fabulich, Niels Ferguson, Paul Ferguson, Amos Fiat, Art Forz, Matthew Franklin, Patri Friedman, Curtis D. Frye, Tony Gallippi, Jeff Garzik, Matthew Gaylor, John Gilmore, David Gordon, James Orlin Grabbe, Ron Gross, Ashish Gulhati, Laszlo Hanyecz, Martin Hellman, Michael Hendrix, Eyal Hertzog, Robert A. Hettinga, Eric Hughes, Mike Ingle, David Irvine, Douglas Jackson, Victor K., Jeff Kane, Mark Karpeles, Sunny King, Steve Klingsporn, Con Kolivas, Dave Krieger, Nick Lambert, Matthew B. Landry, Laurie Law, Charles/Charlie Lee, Vili Lehdonvirta, Hendrik Lenstra, Romana Machado, Michael Marquardt, Yossi Matias, Gregory/Greg Maxwell, Timothy C. May, Jed McCaleb, Stanton McCandlish, James McCarthy, Jim McCoy, Alfred J. Menezes, Perry E. Metzger, Jude Milhon, Max More, David Naccache, Daniel A. Nagy, Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, Moni Naor, Satoshi Obana, Kazuo Ohta, Donald O'Mahony, Jackson Palmer, Torben Pedersen, Michael Peirce, Jean-Marc Piveteau, Naval Ravikant, Ben Reeves, Ron Rivest, Meni Rosenfeld, Nikolay Rozhok, Gary Rowe, Susan Sabett, Mayank Sahu, Steve Schear, Andreas Schildbach, Nils Schneider, Berry Schoenmakers, Adi Shamir, Carol Shaw, Charlie Shrem, Barry Silbert, Jerry Solinas, Markus Stadler, Bill Stewart, Patrick Strateman, Aaron Swartz, Amir Taaki, Yael Tauman, Hitesh Tewari, Will Thomas, Peter Todd, Zhou Tong, Dustin D. Trammell, Patrick P. Tsang, Wladimir J. van der Laan, Thomas Vartanian, Roger Ver, Paul Vernon, Sebastiaan von Solms, Erik Voorhees, Michael Weber, Russell E. Whitaker, Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, Peter Wuille, Moti Yung, Phil Zimmerman, Haibin Zhang, Theymos,
Marti Malmi ,
Hal Finney #1 ,
#2 '
Nick Szabo #1,
#2,
#3,
Mike Hearn,
Michael Clear,
Dave Kleiman,
Not Wright or Kleiman (good post),
Craig Steven Wright #1,
#2,
Ross Ulbricht,
Julian Assange,
Wei Dai, Ben Laurie, Nick Szabo,
Adam Back,
Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki,#1,
#2 Craig Steven Wright lawsuit by Dave Kleiman Estate
https://www.scribd.com/document/372445546/Bitcoin-Lawsuit (external link)
Private key for the GENESIS block hidden in these equations?IBM, DARPA, Google
FBI, CIA, NSA, MI5, FSB, Mossad
YOU ?
Articles involving writing analysis:
Bootstrapped Gavin: Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity revealed!Research on Satoshi Nakamoto identityForbes journalist, Andy Greenberg discovered that a man by the name of Dorian Nakamoto, (born Satoshi) was living only a few blocks from Hal Finney. (The man who received the first bitcoin transaction)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=769004.0 Dorian Nakamoto and Hal Finney
The impact was so adverse on Dorian Nakamoto that Andreas Antonopoulos ran a fundraiser for him.Check fundraising address here:
https://blockchain.info/address/1Dorian4RoXcnBv9hnQ4Y2C1an6NJ4UrjX (Given to him in March 2014)
Most comprehensive list of suspects.Conspiracies:
Conspiracy theories Gavin Andreson and the CIA killed Satoshi Satoshi is an AI robotFrauds:
a fake Satoshi repliedanother fake Satoshi "Satoshis spokesperson" -Miss Roselyn Hamilton Craig Wright “Mr Fake”Convicted fraudster Ronald Keala Kua Maria Satoshi is writing a bookPaper: Duality: An excerptThere is a theory that the name is made up of common industrial companies.
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Samsung Toshiba Nakamichi Motorola
If Satoshi Nakamoto wanted to be known by another identity it is up to him or her to make that move. It is clear from the writing that they were deeply concerned about privacy.
Here are the writings of the real Satoshi
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/229qvr/happy_birthday_satoshi_nakamoto/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775174.0The current most popular theory:Satoshi Nakamotos' current github is showing a photo of Dave Kleiman
https://github.com/satoshinnakamoto![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F8h4srqu.png&t=665&c=_vyRQb7BW-1tFQ)
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FOFRH7IR.png&t=665&c=QE5fKLrfHLnD2g)
Mr Wright has also demonstrated this verification in person to The Economist—and not just for block 9, but block 1. Such demonstrations can be stage-managed; and information that allows us to go through the verification process independently was provided too late for us to do so fully. Still, as far as we can tell he indeed seems to be in possession of the keys, at least for block 9. This assessment is shared by two bitcoin insiders who have sat through the same demonstration: Jon Matonis, a bitcoin consultant and former director of the Bitcoin Foundation, and Gavin Andresen
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/05/02/2160632/oh-my-craig-wrights-keys-of-revelation/This in combination to the claims made in the Dave Kleiman Estate lawsuit against Craig Wright makes Dave Kleiman the current most plausible suspect.Craig Wright filed a
motion to dismissBut I'm still skeptical of the claim because it is reliant on Craig Wrights testimony. In my opinion he has a $54 million reason to lie.Adresses debunked:
https://blog.wizsec.jp/2018/02/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoins.htmlHas Craig Wright Committed Perjury?
https://hackernoon.com/has-craig-wright-committed-perjury-new-information-in-the-kleiman-case-cbaaf2628e93Wright claimed AU$54 million in tax rebates for R&D in 2014/15. That is a lot of motive for a hoax.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-australian-who-may-have-invented-bitcoin-claimed-to-have-landed-54m-in-taxpayer-funded-rebates-2015-12Wrights own mother claims he has a habit of lying:
http://archive.is/kjuLi#selection-1655.0-1655.94Craig Wrights MtGox account also is not that of a "whale"
https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hx3q9/according_to_the_mtgox_leaks_from_early_2014_our/Wright also claimed to have a PhD in computer science with Sydney's Charles Sturt University (CSU). But the university denied ever handing him a Phd.
Cybersecurity firm Wizsec dismisses the Wright claims on which the Kleiman lawsuit is based as "fantasy"
https://blog.wizsec.jp/2018/02/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoins.htmlMy conclusion:I rather not know. I think the mystery makes it more intriguing. Some legends are better as legends. Like Merlin and Robin Hood.Further reading:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/the-crypto-currency![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FocYZg3r.jpg&t=665&c=ETkitLtqbJvrSg)
This is a work in progress, corrections and additions are welcome.
Sources:
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AGD SATOSHI NAKAMOTO the so called inventor and the owner of bitcoin , who so ever he is, first of all I like to thank him for his such a great invention because bitcoin in now a days is considered to be the boon for humanity and many has find Satoshi Nakamoto on many social networking sites like on Twitter or on Facebook where he use to interact with his users , though nobody has saw him yet but we all believe that he is there and once in my life I would like to meet him seriously.