On April 7, 2022, Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel gave a keynote speech at the annual Bitcoin Conference held in Miami. He opposed the so-called Bitcoin enemies, like Warren Buffett and Larry Funk, whom he called “national expansion.”
The true followers of Bitcoin, unlike the stogues of these companies, were not part of the company, nor had a board of directors.
“I don't know who Satoshi is,” Tiel told the crowd.
He wrote in his book “The Mostious Mr. Nakamoto: A 15-year quest to unravel the secret genius behind Crypto,” which he referred to Nakamoto Sajima, who became “an elusive person who may or may not exist.”
In 2008, Nakamoto became “an unnamed coder of experimental money that is interesting, primarily for the fringe community,” Wallace writes.
When he first introduced Bitcoin, Market Value It was $0.00099, or a tenth of a cent.
But by 2022 it was About $42,000 Hovering All bitcoin. Nakamoto's creation is “the ninth most valuable asset in the world, and has become just below Tesla and above meta,” writes Wallace.
However, in the spring of 2011, Nakamoto disappeared. He stopped communicating with the outside world.
He owns over 1 million bitcoins $100 billion (at least) put him in the top 20 of the richest people in the world. However, at the time of this writing, he remains completely unknown.
Why did Nakamoto go to such lengths to avoid the spotlight?
“The modern history of science has not set a precedent for those who have devised innovative technologies and brought them to the world without gaining credibility,” Wallace writes.
It is a fascinating mystery in a world where mysteries are rapidly disappearing. I have long known the secret sources of Bob Woodward's “Deep Throat” and the identity of Joe Klein, author of “Anonymous,” who wrote “Primary Color,” a scandalous account of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential election.
However, Nakamoto somehow became “the mythical founder of a project with a market capitalization of $1 trillion,” Wallace writes.
Bitcoin was first featured on Halloween 2008 in a nine-page white paper titled “.Bitcoin: Peer-to-peer electronic cash system“We outline Nakamoto's design, which does not rely on bank or government debit and credit databases. Initially, it was largely accepted by programmers who believed traditional currencies needed up-to-date information.
Bitcoin “had an immune system that interfered with central forces,” Wallace wrote. “Unlike gold sticks, Bitcoin could not be seized. Unlike bank accounts, it could not be frozen. Unlike national currency, it could not be capitalized by a dictator.
As time passed and Bitcoin was slowly accepted into the mainstream, Nakamoto became almost as famous as his creation. For the past few years, rapper Ye, who was once Kanye West, has been wearing a baseball hat. In Nakamoto's nameThere was a bronze statue of Nakamoto Built in Budapestand Satoshi-sanWallace writes that it recruited settlers for the world's first sovereign Bitcoin-driven society, a cryptocurrency cruise ship. Several economists and engineers claim Nakamoto is making a claim despite being wrapped in secret. Deserves a Nobel Prize.
Nakamoto's details are rough at best. He claimed in his online profile that he is Japanese, but none of his followers believe it. “His English is perfect and with the supple confidence of a native speaker,” Wallace writes. “He heard it from the British, or at least from the Commonwealth country.”
Nakamoto also went to extreme lengths to hide his identity, from using an email server that manipulated the date and time his email was sent to dodging personal questions even from his closest collaborators.
There were many theories. Some suspect that Nakamoto is actually Neil Stevenson. Neil Stevenson is a novelist who “Cryptonomicon” was hoping for digital money. Or Julian Assange, Australia's founder of WikiLeaks. Or even Elon Musk, who was argued by one SpaceX intern, claimed that he must be the creator of Bitcoin because both spoke of “order” inference and used the word “Bloody.” ”
“He didn't think Nakamoto even had a background in computer science,” said Gavin Andresen, the developer of Bitcoin. “It made him think Nakamoto might be a professor,” writes Gwern Branwen, a security researcher and dark web analyst, that Nakamoto “can be anyone.”
As Bitcoin is a clever bond of existing technology, Branwen suggested, “Satoshi is not qualified for encryption or is nothing more than a self-taught programmer.”
Why did Nakamoto even get hidden? Bitcoiner wondered if he had disappeared to avoid being charged with tax evasion, or if he had disappeared to avoid criminals trying to steal his vast Bitcoin property. “The general view was that he acted selflessly,” Wallace wrote. “The most enthusiastic Bitcoiner treated Nakamotology as a kind of blasphemy, as if Scientologists were being asked about Xenu.”
There could also be a few Nakamotos. After all, the Bitcoin whitepaper used “us” rather than “me.” I realized that Nakamoto's name could be Porte Manto, the name of large companies such as Samsung, Toshiba, Nakajima and Motorola. “So maybe the corporate cabal was behind it,” Wallace wrote.
Wallace tracked down many of the biggest suspects, denying that they were all hidden geniuses. Wei Dai, the amateur cryptographer (from “Satoshi is Not Me”), has given the author a bite to gold creator Nick Szabo.[Nakamoto] Szabo said he wanted to respect his privacy,” he told him.
But much of the Bitcoin community is full of mystery. In fact, they enjoy it. At the first Bitcoin conference in New York in 2011, the hottest item was a T-shirt with the words “I Am Satoshi.” The issue of the identity and location of the creator of Bitcoin “was approaching the meeting,” Wallace writes. “Is he here among us?”
Nakamoto's anonymity is primarily considered “a feature, not a bug.” “To be truly decentralized, Bitcoin had to give birth to a virgin. To steal human form – a flawed individual with a particular identity that might taste good for this group – gave the best shots received and taken on its own terms.”
To this day, the real Nakamoto has not yet made any progress. And that is probably the only way we learn the truth. There are no treasure chests to discover by stitching together the correct clues.
“The reason everyone else can get is if Nakamoto had misstep or confided someone,” Wallace wrote. “But as the years went by, the trails became fainter, even if there were trails.”
That may be exactly what Nakamoto wants. Perhaps Wallace writes, he made it impossible to find him.
