Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of bitcoin, and had become an “elusive figure who might or might not exist,” writes Benjamin ...
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In Pursuit of the Bitcoin God
Years of studying Satoshi Nakamoto led me to a new prime suspect. What if crypto’s creator isn’t the benign figure people ...
A digital publication in 2008 laid out the concept and technical methods for “mining” cryptocurrency. Its author didn’t seem ...
Benjamin Wallace’s “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto” is a new attempt to unmask the identity of the figure (or figures) who eventually did so, introducing Bitcoin in 2008 under the name Satoshi ...
Benjamin Wallace wrote a piece on the phenomenon for WIRED in November 2011, making him one of the very first mainstream journalists to ever cover the crypto space. Back then, nobody seemed to know ...
One of coder Hal Finney’s neighbours in California really had been called Satoshi Nakamoto: he briefly became prime suspect before being ruled out. But did Hal pinch the name? Hal died from ...