The mystery about the ingenious creator of Bitcoin concealing behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto has been fascinating the global public for more than a decade. Suddenly jumping out of the dark in 2008, this persona hurled the highly disruptive distributed LEDGER technology “blockchain” that has added the missing native value layer to the internet. Purposely agnostic without advocating any old or fielding new names, this paper first identifies the degrees of freedom Satoshi Nakamoto had available in the design of Bitcoin, and in fabricating snippets of personal data.
By interweaving the substantial collection of previous and new circumstantial with direct evidence, like relevant locations and happenings in history and at the time, a consistent skeleton of Satoshi Nakamoto’s biography transpires. The results underpin that the iconic creator of Bitcoin most likely encoded bits of information in his self-chosen alias, dates and blockchain parameters, which particularly point to the numbers 21 and 42, and the numeral systems used in Bitcoin’s framework.
Moreover, a psychogram of a reclusive and capricious genius is drawn, which sheds new light on
Satoshi Nakamoto’s background, mindset, pastimes, and penchant for puns; this study may also
explain the motivation of his abrupt departure from the public, his continuing abstinence from
engaging with the Bitcoin community, and from reaping the fruits of his mindboggling wealth. From a
history of technology perspective, such an altruistic sacrifice for the benefit of his brainchild is entirely unprecedented.
The now notorious pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto stands for the remarkable inventor of one of the most ground-breaking innovations of the ongoing twenty first century: the cryptocurrency Bitcoin (tracker symbol: BTC) with its underlying blockchain concept; this disruptive technology has enabled the “Web3” by equipping the internet with a native value layer. Yet, even up after more than a decade
after its launch in 2008/2009, only very little is known about this individual or group, who spent an
extraordinarily sophisticated efforts on hiding his/its true identity, biography, and whereabouts.
Satoshi Nakamoto was only interacting with the community for about two years between the second
half of 2008 and end of 2010, followed by a few emails in spring 2011 before completely vanishing in April 2011. Afterwards, Satoshi Nakamoto appears to have surfaced with brief statements, one in an attempt to stop a media-driven manhunt for a Japanese-American sharing his “name”, and to intervene in a self-destructive civil war raging within the Bitcoin community; however, it has been arguable whether these postings even originated from the elusive architect of Bitcoin.
Please don’t ask me what i think from a biggest god like Satoshi Nakamoto, i am still fascinated by his fascinating knowledge.
Reference
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361456322 (Satoshi Nakamoto and the origins of Bitcoin : Narratio in Nomine, Datis et Numeris (There is a Story is in the Name, Dates and Numbers)
