Satoshi Nakamoto is a person famous as a founder of Bitcoin and creator of unique Bitcoin client. In his P2P Foundation profile he told that he was from Japan. Nothing else is known about him. Satoshi Nakamoto was working out his project since 2007 and in 2010 he finished his participation in Bitcoin development. Bitcoin founder is still unknown. Satoshi Nakamoto is the name, by which scientific work setting forward theoretical foundations about bitcoin is signed, so that it is unclear whether it is a pseudonym or not.

Public activity

Genesis Block

An article about new EZ Flash IV crypto-currency has been published in 2008 and a year after it there has been published the first software, which has been launched in the network immediately. Satoshi Nakamoto who was in the role of Bitcoin developer continued his discussions on websites with specialists interested in further development of the system. But such a contact between him and his team was going to be weaker and in spring 2011 Satoshi announced his personal exit, as developer told: “In order to be engaged in more important tasks”.

Since then nobody heard about Nakamoto. This person disappeared as unexpected as appeared. The total control over the Bitcoin.org domain has been handed to his colleagues including Gevin Anderson – one of the leader developers of the Bitcoin.

Satoshi Nakamoto personality

It is widely thought that there is no person with such name. Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym which has been chosen for certain person or group of the persons, first works setting forward basic crypto currency have been signed by this pseudonym.

This name became a kind of legend and mystery. It is known just that developer of the most popular crypto currency has chosen Japan male name, which can be translated as “a wise”. Society perceived his claim about Japan origin incredulously as neither software nor Bitcoin customer in Japan exist. Over a period of several years in mass media has been appeared information that behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto hides out a professor of economics and law, whose name is Nik Sabo, an owner of anonymous trading platform – Ross Ulbricht, Japanese mathematician — Motidzuki Siniti and many others. But all of them disproved their belonging to pseudonym and participation in Bitcoin creation.

Character research

Why should we know about his personality? Whoever Satoshi appeared to be – real person, group of the persons or governmental body – it is very important information. It explains crypto currency origin and can confirm or disprove wide range of gossip and insinuations existing in BTC exchange. This mystery attracts researches. One of them Skye Grey made a huge work in this direction. He has published a very detailed analysis about text predispositions; this analysis is based on the search of key turn of Bitcoin technical documentation, comparing it to works of researcher of Jorge Washington University. whose name is Nick Szabo.

“Grey: I am not sure that it is Nick Szabo, but I have a lot of independent evidences denoting his side, each of evidence is very interesting”

According to text analysis just 0.1% of all researches of cryptography were able to reproduce this way of writing. There is a fact that Nick was looking for technical employees for Bit Gold project featured crypto currency bitcoin, it has happened few months before bitcoin announcement but after it the project has been finished.

Satoshi did not cite Nick Szabo’s works while he was citing other crypto currency projects which were less connected with bitcoin.

There was an absence of reaction about bitcoin from the side of Nick Szabo while the decentralized currency topic was the main topic of his research for the last 10 years.

There was a fact that Nick antedated his articles about Bit Gold intentionally in order to look lagged. This began after bitcoin creation announcement.

In his researches it is noticed that Nick during several years beginning from the 1998 was developing mechanism which allows decentralization of digital currency. In the long run this mechanism changed to the system named “Bit Gold”, this system is direct predecessor of bitcoin architecture.

Dorian Nakamoto

According to widely acknowledged history of origin of Bitcoin system Satoshi Nakamoto was highly skilled scientist (or group of scientists) who has found a Niko’s designing concerning Bit Gold and thought up an idea of its improvement, he has published technical description of bitcoin and decided to embody it by designing of unique bitcoin customer. Changing of date of publication of articles about BitGold: there are two basic articles in Niko’s blog, first one was originally published in December 2005, then the date of publication was made post factum in December 2008; the second article published in April 2008 has also been moved till December 2008.

It has been noticed because the date of recording in Blogger can be edited manually, but the original date will be seen in unedited URL. But this could happen, because Nick could find deficits in the article and change or edit it till December.

On 6 of March 2014 the Newsweek Magazine has published investigation of experienced journalist whose name is Liya Gudman. An article was supposedly a kind of disclosure of Satoshi personality. During several months Liya Gudman was looking for Bitcoin creature as a result she has found a man whose name was Dorian Prentis Satoshi Nakamoto. In the article there was information that Dorian was a creator of Bitcoin. But the day following it person who was supposed to be a creator of crypto currency Bitcoin, made a denial in mass media. 64 years old American of Japan origin Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto affirmed that three weeks ago he has heard about bitcoins for the first time. Nakamoto has noticed that a range of details in the article Newsweek are true – he was really working to defense contractor in due time and name he got at birth is really Satoshi. Nevertheless he doesn’t refer to legendary creator of Bitcoin, who was hiding behind Satoshi Nakamoto’s pseudonym.

Assets in Bitcoins

Financial performance of Satoshi Nakamoto in the system is estimated at about 1 million of bitcoins, it is equal to 1.1 billion of USA dollars. The search of mystery personality will undoubtedly continue because in hands of this person or even group of the persons are each 12th bitcoin, and Satoshi can easily destabilize the currency as fast as he placed it to the world market.

Satoshi used specific apparatus: while his like-minded persons who have been connected with Bitcoin placed Bitcoin-customer on simple apparatus, Satoshi used several tens of PCs at the same time or used FPGA-computer he has made by himself. Today we know it by his personal activity “script” in general list of transactions: Namato’s blocks can be easily seen on the graph (what one of researches has done; the result is on picture).

Each dot on this graph is one block containing all transactions of the system for the last ten minutes. The time is LTR. Mining activity of Satoshi forms visible rack.