Who is the creator of Bitcoin cryptocurrency? According to the Internet, it's Satoshi Nakamoto. However, the Satoshi Nakamoto who published the Bitcoin white paper in 2008 is a pseudonym of an individual whose identity remains a mystery. However, according to the director of the documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery on HBO, the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd a software developer from Canada.
For your information, the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto was determined using various online information and looking at the history of his interactions with Peter Todd. Peter Todd is one of the individuals who said he had contacted Satoshi Nakamoto before this mysterious character disappeared in 2010.
Even so, Peter Todd when contacted said he was not the creator of Bitcoin despite being one of the suspected individuals for a long time. Besides Todd, Dorian Nakamoto a physicist and Nick Szabo a computer scientist are also among the tuurt candidates denying they are Satoshi Nakamoto.
Only Craig Wright, an Australian, made an open admission that he was the inventor of Bitcoin but this claim was rejected by the UK court in favour of the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) which dragged him to court. Satoshi Nakamoto will remain an enigma in the crypto world because he started the global currency fever. He also holds 1 million Bitcoins which is worth RM 267 billion with no activity detected on the account since 2010.
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