During the last decade, cryptocurrency enthusiasts have discussed the true identity of Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto. To this day, the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery continues to prevail, and throughout the years there’s been a great number of suspects and self-proclaimed crypto inventors.
Halloween is approaching and twelve years ago on October 31, 2008, Bitcoin’s inventor published the cryptocurrency’s introductory white paper. Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the pseudonymous person or persons that wrote the white paper and developed the original Bitcoin codebase. By developing the first blockchain distributed ledger, Nakamoto essentially solved the infamous computational issue called the “Byzantine generals’ problem” or the “Byzantine Fault.”
Nakamoto left the Bitcoin project and public eye in December 2010 and during the last decade, people have been hunting relentlessly for the mysterious creator. News.Bitcoin.com has written a number of articles about the possibility of certain individuals that could be Satoshi in a series called “The Many Facts.” The series has been one of our most popular chain of Satoshi Nakamoto articles, and the following post is a list of seven suspects we’ve covered so far.