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So, who was this Satoshi Nakamoto guy … or gal … or organization? Nobody knows. Satoshi Nakamoto doesn’t seem to be a real name; it’s most likely a pseudonym. And if anyone knows for sure who Nakamoto really is, they’re not saying. It’s the great mystery of cryptocurrency.

There is a Japanese American man named Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, born Satoshi Nakamoto apparently. This person was a trained physicist, systems engineer, and a computer engineer for financial companies — perhaps he was the Satoshi Nakamoto. However, he’s denied it several times.

How about Hal Finney, who lived just a few blocks from Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto’s home? He was a pre-Bitcoin cryptographer and one of the first people to use Bitcoin and claims to have communicated via email with the founder of Bitcoin. Some people have suggested he “borrowed” Satoshi Nakamoto’s name and used it as a pseudonym.

Then there’s Nick Szabo, who has long been involved in digital currency and even published a white paper on bit gold, before Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper. Or what about Craig White, who at one point claimed to be Nakamoto, but was later accused of fraud? Or Dr. Vili Lehdonvirta, a Finnish economic sociologist, or Michael Clear, an Irish graduate student in cryptography, or the three guys who filed a patent that included an obscure phrase (“computationally impractical to reverse”) also used in the Nakamoto Bitcoin white paper, or Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki, or Jed McCaleb, or some type of government agency, or some other kind of team of people, or Elon Musk, or, well, nobody knows, but theories abound.

The second biggest Bitcoin mystery? Nakamoto owned around a million Bitcoin, which in December 2017, was worth about 19 or 20 billion dollars. The entirety of Nakamoto’s estimated Bitcoin fortune has not been moved or spent; why hasn’t he touched this money?