It seemed that everyone had already heard about bitcoin and cryptocurrency, everyone is talking about it, many are engaged in it. mining, and some test their nerve cells for strength, “playing” a cool trader.
But what do we know about the creator of bitcoin? When did he appear and who is behind him?
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Summer xnumx. At that moment, when the whole world was experiencing the global financial crisis, a simple bitcoin domain was registered.org.
On October 31 of the same year, several hundred cryptographic specialists included in the closed mailing list received a letter from a certain Satoshi Nakamoto, who sent them a description of the fully decentralized electronic cash platform. What then was fantastic, however, as it is today.
It is difficult to imagine that the value can be transferred quickly, inexpensively and from anywhere in the world. In this case, you do not depend on a third party. But this is already a reality, ladies and gentlemen.
Bitcoin saw the light
3 January 2009 is considered the birthday of the first cryptocurrency. The first block and the first 50 bitcoins were generated.
But then it was hard to imagine that after almost 10 years he would create such a hype and excitement around his person.
In fact, bitcoin has significantly changed our worldview and many things in our environment. Blockchain, mining, cryptocurrency – there was nothing like it before. And now the states are trying to ride the crypto trend and sell us their cryptocurrency. Hello cryptoruble!
Satoshi Nakamoto really changed our worldview.
Satoshi Nakamoto, who are you?
If you use Google, you will find an image of an elderly person of Asian appearance. This is Dorian Nakamoto, he lives in the USA and, as he has stated hundreds of times, has nothing to do with the creation of Bitcoin.
In 2014, a reporter for the American magazine Newsweek published an article stating that Dorian is the same Satoshi. After that, Nakamoto was besieged by journalists.
But after some time, a message appeared on a profile crypto forum signed with the name of Satoshi Nakamoto: “I am not Dorian Nakamoto.”
There are also versions of Nika Sabo (cryptocurrency expert), Charlie Lee (creator of Litecoin) and even Ilona Mask. Hmm, is it possible?
There were guys who themselves presented themselves as the creator of this cryptocurrency. For example, the Australian businessman Craig Wright, but he could not prove something.
Anyway, not the fact that it was one person. The program code is developed quite well, because Bitcoin still works without failures and hacks. Everything is thought out to the smallest detail.
How could a real Satoshi Nakamoto confirm his identity?
Nakamoto should have a lot of bitcoins. Presumably, more 1 million coins. As proof, he could have moved these coins to another address.
NSA found Satoshi?
The crypto community repeatedly tried to figure out the mysterious creator, but all attempts were in vain. Recently, the US National Security Agency (NSA) using stylometry has joined the search.
Stylometry - statistical analysis of written text. All known Satoshi messages and texts were compared with trillions of samples of other authors on the Internet. Plus, do not forget that the NSA has access to Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook and other American services. According to some reports, the US monitors absolutely all traffic passing through them. Yes, it is not entirely legal, large companies will never recognize it.
Why does the NSA need all this? Some anonymous sources claim that the US was suspicious of Bitcoin and “saw” Satoshi Nakamoto as a Russian or Chinese agent.
Search results are unknown. But it’s interesting for us that the total monitoring of traffic can reveal many users by means of stylometry.