It is popularly believed that Satoshi Nakamoto is the creator of Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto’s anonymity is one of the greatest mysteries of our times. Nakamoto remains pseudonymous. If his identity is revealed, it may lead to a crash of Bitcoin. He remained pseudonymous while releasing his October 2008 paper — Bitcoin-A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Some believe Nakamoto could be a group of persons, as the code is too well-designed for one person.

Some claim that he is 46-year old Japan-based gentleman. There are other contenders — Craig Wright, an Australian entrepreneur; Villi Lehdonvirta, a Finnish sociologist; Michael Clear, Irish student; Shinichi Mochizuki, Japanese mathmatician; Adam Back, inventor of Hashcash and British cryptographer.

Tesla’s Musk believes Nicholas Szabo, a computer scientist could be behind this as he had proposed BitGold in 1998. However, the computer scientist denies this.

Nakamoto’s first statue has been unveiled at Budapest in September 2021. He wears a hoodie, and has vague facial features. The hoodie has a Bitcoin logo engraved on it.

Maybe, Nakamoto is dead. Maybe, he was Hal Finney, a computer scientist who passed away in 2014. Maybe, he is incarcerated. In the past, those who have proposed private currency have been convicted, e.g. Bernard for proposing Liberty Dollar and Ross, the creator of the dark web.