A new theory regarding the true identity of anonymous Bitcoin (BTC) creator Satoshi Nakamoto has emerged from an extremely unlikely source. Enter the Escobar family and its story about Yasutaka Nakamoto. The story goes like this: Yasutaka Nakamoto was a high-ranking engineer for Pacific West Airlines who worked for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, smuggling drugs into the United States from South America. Yasutaka disappeared completely from public view in 1992 after surviving an assassination attempt by his former employer. He then resurfaced years later to create and launch Bitcoin. He is also supposedly the brother of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. …

The researcher who identified 1.1 million Bitcoins (BTC) that Satoshi Nakamoto mined, said that his research makes him believe that Satoshi was altruistic and will never spend his coins. Sergio Demian Lerner, the designer of the second layer Bitcoin protocol RSK and renowned crypto researchers in the Reddit AMA said that it took him three years to discover privacy flaws in the Bitcoin code that led to the discovery of the Patoshi pattern. Respects Satoshi’s privacy The Patoshi pattern describes a miner who used a slightly different mining algorithm and who mined about 1.1 million Bitcoins. Most believe him to …

Craig Wright maintains that he alone has access to the ‘Satoshi’ Bitcoin addresses filed in court, despite a message apparently signed by 145 of the addresses calling him “a liar and a fraud”. Wright says anyone that thinks his credibility is now in tatters as a result “doesn’t understand digital signatures at all”. He is being sued by the estate of his alleged former business partner Dave Kleiman, which is seeking a share of billions of dollars of Bitcoin (BTC) the pair may or may not have mined together. As part of the case, Wright filed a list of early …

Satoshi Nakamoto may have relied on a Russian proxy as early as January 2009, when Bitcoin v0.1.0 was first released. Telltale signs appear in the file “irc.cpp” on line 212, though this seems to be obfuscated with a simple cipher. Bitcoin v0.1.0 irc.cpp File Released January 9 2020. Source: Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Spy games This cipher seems to work by removing all the zeros and then converting the numbers from hexadecimal notation to decimal. That produces what looks like an IP address: 87.251.146. At the time, the proxy was provided by Anders Telecom. It has apparently been defunct since 2016. …

According to an early Bitcoin (BTC) developer, Satoshi Nakamoto sought help from outside cryptographers prior to launching Bitcoin. Laszlo Hanyecz, who worked closely with Satsohi in 2010, told Cointelegraph that he was befuddled by Satoshi’s choice of the elliptic curve secp256k1. The use of this curve, at the time, was unusual. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) curves were much more common. Many Bitcoin enthusiasts over the years have been speculating as to whether this is luck or genius, as the curve chosen by Satoshi is more efficient and also makes any backdoor less likely. “I had a bunch …

Satoshi Nakamoto had pre-invented Bitcoin (BTC) GPU mining in order to defend the network, says early Bitcoin developer who worked with the Bitcoin creator in 2010. Laszlo Hanyecz, who is known for making the first real-world Bitcoin transaction, has also been credited with inventing Bitcoin GPU mining. However, in a Cointelegraph interview, he said that not only Satoshi had invented it before him, but he also had several versions of the algorithm. Hanyecz’ Bitcointalk Post Describing GPU Mining. Source: Bitcointalk.org. “Hey, go slow with this” According to Hanyecz, one of the first emails he received from Satoshi was a response …

Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto candidate and chief scientist at NChain, has lost an appeal against Bitcoin.com founder and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) evangelist, Roger Ver. Wright originally sued Ver for calling him “a fraud and a liar” in a now-deleted YouTube video in 2019, but the lawsuit was eventually dismissed, causing Wright to file an appeal. According to May 29 court documents from the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the appeal has now been rejected because “England and Wales is not clearly the most appropriate place to bring this action for Defamation.” Wright, an Australian national, reportedly …

A tweet from 2010 may provide evidence that Hal Finney is not Satoshi Nakamoto. In a recent Cointelegrpah interview, Laszlo Hanyecz, who worked closely with Satoshi Nakamoto in 2010, said that Satoshi had no familiarity with the Mac ecosystem: “He didn't have a Macintosh. He didn't know how to build it for Mac.” Consequently, Satoshi asked him to develop a MacOS version of the Bitcoin client, which he eventually did. Both Finney & his wife owned a Mac in 2010 However, a 2010 tweet from Hal Finney tells us that both Finney and his wife owned a Mac: Hal Finney …

In a recent Cointelgraph interview, Ethereum co-founder and Cardano founder Charles Hoskinon said that he believes that Adam Back “checks all the boxes” as a Satoshi Nakamoto candidate. The puzzle of Satoshi’s true identity never seems to get old. Although Hoskinson admits that he does not have any hard evidence connecting the Blockstream’s founder to the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator, he did make a mental profile of Satoshi — Back seemingly has a perfect fit. Hoskinson believes that Satoshi was somebody, who lived either in Western Europe of the coastal United States, was comfortable with British English, and had a background …

Most know Laszlo Hanyecz as the “Bitcoin pizza guy,” but this description ignores his role as an early Bitcoin developer. Hanyecz was the one to add MacOS support for the early Bitcoin (BTC) client, and he even invented GPU mining. Hanyecz got into Bitcoin in early 2010 and worked with Satoshi Nakamoto for about a year. Their work was mostly about fixing various bugs, then it became about Apple’s compatibility with Bitcoin: Satoshi Nakamoto didn’t own a Mac and didn’t know how to develop for the Apple operating system. “Bitcoin originally didn't work on Mac. So I ported it to …

On Monday, a Bitcoin (BTC) miner — or multiple Bitcoin miners — signed a message calling Craig Wright a fraud. One of the addresses used had been previously attributed to the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. The message was signed with 145 signatures belonging to the 145 corresponding addresses, and one of those addresses — 12CTHhyJtr49LgoUShbWgebLBviLAFj6nj — was a coinbase address for the Bitcoin mined in block 30169. Previous research conducted by Sergio Demian Lerner identified this block as one mined by Satoshi. Block 30169 Part of “Patoshi” Pattern. Source. SatoshiBlocks. Experts disagree However, Lerner told Cointelegraph that this is …

A message signed by 145 wallets containing Bitcoin (BTC) mined in its first years calls Craig Wright a “liar and a fraud.” The message was published on May 25 with a list of 145 addresses and their corresponding signatures. This seemingly proves that the addresses do indeed belong to the person broadcasting the message. The message itself reads: “Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn't have the keys used to sign this message. The Lightning Network is a significant achievement. However, we need to continue work on improving on-chain capacity. Unfortunately, the solution is not to …