One of the most popular names attached to the creation of Bitcoin, a digital asset is Satoshi Nakamoto. On Wednesday 5th of April, 2023, the pseudonymous creator clocked 48.
Although Nakamoto was active about the development of Bitcoin until 2010 (2 years it was launched), crypto enthusiasts continues to celebrate the face behind it.
Here are 8 Interesting things to know about Satoshi Nakamoto
1. Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the pseudonymous person or persons who created Bitcoin.
2. He claimed to be born on the 5th of April 1975 making him 48 as at the time of writing.
3. Satoshi developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin whitepaper, and created & deployed bitcoin’s original reference implementation.
4. There has been widespread speculation about Satoshi Nakamoto’s true identity, with a variety of people posited as the person or person’s behind the name.
5. Some of the people posited to be Satoshi Nakamoto include Hal Finney (a pre-bitcoin cryptographic pioneer), Dorian Nakamoto (a Japanese American Physicist ), Nick Szabo (a decentralized currency enthusiast), Craig Wright (an Australian Academic). Tech billionaire, Elon Musk has once denied he was Nakamoto in a tweet on 28 November, 2017 responding to a claim by a former SpaceX intern.
6. Nakamoto claimed to be Japanese (name and location) but some speculated he was unlikely to be Japanese due to his native-level use of English. The use of British English in both source code comments and forum postings, such as the expression “bloody hard”, terms such as “flat” and “maths”, and the spellings “grey” and “colour”, led to speculation that Nakamoto, or at least one individual in a consortium claiming to be him, was of Commonwealth origin.
7. A security researcher, Dan Kaminsky, who read the bitcoin code, said that Nakamoto could either be ”a team of people” or a genius. Laszlo Hanyecz, a developer who had emailed Nakamoto, had the feeling the code was too well designed for one person.
8. Nakamoto owns between 750,000 and 1,100,000 bitcoin. In November 2021, when Bitcoin hit its still-highest value of over US$68,000, that would have made his net worth up to US$73 billion, which would have made him the 15th-richest person in the world at the time.
Bitcoin’s creation has led to the creation of other crypto assets known as ”Altcoins” among which is Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, Tezos, Dogecoin, etc. Bitcoin today is the number one and largest crypto asset with a market capitalization of $539,239,865,441.