Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto reconnects with P2P Foundation after five years. Last night at 2:18am Alexia Tsotsis, Co-Editor at TechCrunch tweeted at me asking me to email or DM her. Intrigued, I did so. Turns out, in response to the Newsweek article (see here if you can’t get to that) claiming to have the real identity of Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, the ‘real’ Satoshi posted on the P2p Foundation Ning stating: I started the P2P Foundation Ning back in 2008, where Satoshi posted information about their work on Bitcoin in Feb 2009, and so Alexia got in touch with me after seeing the Reddit post about Satoshi’s latest post on the forum.
She asked me a few questions, which I did my best to answer. I also posted the following tweets, which have now all be retweeted umpteen times: Shortly after, TechCrunch had a piece about it. Numerous other threads about this have surfaced on Reddit too, including fun wild speculation that I am myself Satoshi (I’m not!) We await their response to see if we can get any more info about all this… Satoshi Nakamoto is the Anti-Steve Jobs. By David Z. Morris Dorian S. Nakamoto FORTUNE -- "I am not Dorian S. That was the simple message posted from an account on the website of the Peer to Peer Foundation at 10 p.m. The pseudonymous creator of the Bitcoin digital currency protocol had previously discussed the development of his invention on this forum, using this account, until he vanished from the world he created. MORE: Did Newsweek just validate the Bitcoin conspiracy theory?
This doesn't necessarily mean much. And it doesn't matter a bit. Whether or not he is in fact Dorian S. But somehow, without its creator, bitcoin soldiers on. There are many important, sensible reasons we want to know who created bitcoin. Except that we know this isn't true, because the bitcoin code is entirely public, and has at this point been reviewed and revised by thousands of programmers across the world. The trust increasing numbers of people place in bitcoin rests on that community, and on that ecosystem. MORE: Understanding the Mt. Compiled quotes attributed to "Dorian" Satoshi Nakamoto thus far. The Face Behind Bitcoin. Pretty much everything about the real identity of bitcoin’s mysterious creator will surprise you. The mysterious, anonymous creator of bitcoin, whose identity has been sought by countless journalists, geeks, and hobbyists since the currency first appeared, has finally been uncovered.
Update: Dorian Nakamoto told the AP that he did not invent Bitcoin, and only heard of it when his son mentioned a reporter had called him to ask if the elder Nakamoto had invented it. And now the whole affair is a meme. The most astonishing thing about the man behind bitcoin, who went by pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto” online, is that his real name is in fact Satoshi Nakamoto. But until journalist Leah McGrath Goodman, investigating for Newsweek, thought to search a database containing the registration cards of naturalized US citizens, no one had bothered to find out whether someone living in the US who is actually named Satoshi Nakamoto might be the guy who invented a cryptocurrency that is now worth billions of dollars.
Between 2009 and 2011, Nakamoto corresponded with other coders who worked on bitcoin. Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney) I thought I'd write about the last four years, an eventful time for Bitcoin and me. For those who don't know me, I'm Hal Finney. I got my start in crypto working on an early version of PGP, working closely with Phil Zimmermann. When Phil decided to start PGP Corporation, I was one of the first hires. I would work on PGP until my retirement. At the same time, I got involved with the Cypherpunks. I ran the first cryptographically based anonymous remailer, among other activities. Fast forward to late 2008 and the announcement of Bitcoin. When Satoshi announced Bitcoin on the cryptography mailing list, he got a skeptical reception at best. I was more positive. When Satoshi announced the first release of the software, I grabbed it right away.
Today, Satoshi's true identity has become a mystery. After a few days, bitcoin was running pretty stably, so I left it running. Speaking of heirs, I got a surprise in 2009, when I was suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease. My body began to fail. Satoshi Nakamoto is (probably) Nick Szabo | LikeInAMirror. I recently became interested in identifying the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. I started from the Bitcoin whitepaper [0] published in late 2008, and proceeded to run reverse textual analysis –essentially, searching the internet for highly unusual turns of phrase and vocabulary patterns (in particular places which you would expect a cryptography researcher to contribute to), then evaluating the fitness of each match found by running textual similarity metrics on several pages of their writing.
Which led me rather directly to several articles from Nick Szabo’s blog. For those who wouldn’t know Nick Szabo and his documented links to Bitcoin: prior to the apparition of Bitcoin, Nick had been developing for several years (since 1998 [1]) the enabling mechanism for a decentralized digital currency, eventually converging on a system he called “bit gold” [3], which is the direct precursor to the Bitcoin architecture. Content-neural terms: Then, there is secondary evidence. Silk-road-paper DPR-Nakamoto. I Think I Know Who Satoshi Is. I know who 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is, says Ted Nelson. Sociologist, philosopher, computer industry pioneer and inventor of the term “hypertext” Ted Nelson is claiming that he knows the identity of Bitcoin inventor “Satoshi Nakamoto”. In a rambling – and, let's face it, odd – 12-minute post on YouTube, Nelson spins out the suspense, throws in a dialogue with himself as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, and finally ends with the statement that the mystery developer of the cryptocurrency is Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki, research professor of mathematics at Kyoto University.
Bitcoin was proposed in 2008 in a paper by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, with the first client released in 2009 (a point Nelson scrambles at around 9:15 of his video, giving the date as 2011). His identification stands on three legs: Mochizuki can rightfully be identified as being smart enough to have conceived of Bitcoin; Mochizuki doesn't use the conventional scientific peer review process. 2012-03-30-mochizuki-shinichi.jpg (549×673) Who is Satoshi, the mysterious bitcoin founder? Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous person or group of people who designed and created the original Bitcoin software, currently known as Bitcoin-Qt.
His involvement in the original Bitcoin software does not appear to extend past mid-2010. Identity There are no records of Nakamoto's identity or identities prior to the creation of Bitcoin. On his P2P foundation profile, Nakamoto claimed to be an individual male at the age of 37 and living in Japan, which was met with great skepticism due to his use of English and his Bitcoin software not being documented nor labeled in Japanese. British formatting in his written work implies Nakamoto is of British origin.
However, he also sometimes used American spelling, which may indicate that he was intentionally trying (but failed) to mask his writing style, or that he is more than one person. Investigations into the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto have been attempted by The New Yorker and Fast Company. Work Motives Influence. Jason sets his software to generate bitcoins and Gavin explains why that's a bad idea. The million bitcoin question: Can the system be hacked? Gavin explains the fundamentals of Bitcoin.