Satoshi Nakamoto - The Man, The Myth, The Legend

Bitcoin (₿) is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.


The cryptocurrency was invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto.

Possible Satoshi candidates

Possible Satoshi candidates

Satoshi Nakamoto is annonymous

Satoshi Nakamoto remains annonymous

We all know it... Bitcoin.


It's revolutionised Money as we know it.

Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation.

As part of the implementation, Nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database. Nakamoto was active in the development of bitcoin up until Many people have claimed, or have been claimed, to be Nakamoto.

Characteristics and identity


Nakamoto has never revealed personal information when discussing technical matters, though has at times provided commentary on banking and fractional-reserve banking. Lorem ipsum dolor sit, amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Vero, ducimus!

On his P2P Foundation profile as of 2012, Nakamoto claimed to be a 37-year-old male who lived in Japan; however, some speculated he was unlikely to be Japanese due to his native-level use of English.

Me personally? I'm here for all the drama!