But could it ever reach the heights predicted by early pioneer Hal Finney, who speculated that ... Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. This made him one of the earliest adopters ...

Then there’s Hal Finney, an early Bitcoin developer ... Even so, before his death in 2014, he firmly denied being Satoshi. Dorian Nakamoto, a physicist based in California, was famously mistaken ...

Some in the cryptocurrency world believed Nakamoto was actually Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, an elderly Japanese-American and former computer engineer, but Dorian flat-out denied the allegation.