The story of Bitcoin is one of the biggest mysteries this world has ever seen.
It was created in response to the financial crisis of 2008, and the creator or creators
of it are still anonymous to this day. People have speculated on who it could be years. Cyber punks,
Hal Finndey, Craig Wright, government agencies, and even your Mom. The last one’s a joke,
but today we aren’t joking around. Because it’s time for Chico Crypto!
Yup nearly 13 years ago, a programmer operating under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto deployed a
piece of code that would change the world forever. January 3rd of 2009 Bitcoin was launched, and
within the first block there was a secret message sent from the creator. From the raw hex data,
we can see Satoshi said “The Times 03/January/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”
This message came from a newspaper, The Times, which had the headline Chancellor on brink of
second bailout for banks. So satoshi was quoting a british newspaper eh? Which got many to think
he was british…but we have found out through research, that this is most likely not the case.
December of 2020, Ungeared and their researchers put together a research piece
titled the strange story of Nakamoto’s spelling choices. In the research, they analyzed Satoshi’s
known writings-emails, posts, and the Bitcoin white paper to a rigorous statistical analysis,
and they found that he used majority American English, over 52 percent of the time. British
english about 35 percent of the time, and it was misspelled about 23 percent of the time. They
also found that their were inconsistencies with his writing style throughout days of the week.
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays were dominated by American spelling…Thursdays
were dominated by British spelling, and on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays
were split evenly between the 2..but all days had a batch of misspellings.
Now ungeared concluded through their analysis this. “ If his spelling was indeed part of his
operational security, why would it be so inconsistent, why would he not use a spell
checker throughout? We believe there are several possible explanations for this.
Firstly, it is possible that this was part of the plan all along – to throw us off his trail with
irregular spelling. Another is that the Satoshi team consisted of multiple team members who were
accustomed to different versions of the English language. Or perhaps, Satoshi was multicultural,
someone who has lived in different parts of the English-speaking world.
Soo if this was a sole person, this was part of his plan,
to speak in different English dialects to throw people off the trail.
Or this was because he was multicultural, living in different parts of the world.
Or because it was a team, who had members of both American dialects and British dialects.
Soo let’s just look at the case that it was a sole person, who was multicultural…living in
different parts of the English speaking world. Who could that be? Well there is Craig Wright. He has
claimed he is Satoshi for the longest time. He is of Australian Descent, has lived in Britain, and
also America. Craig just partially won a trial, where he was being sued for Satoshi’s fortune!
Decrypt covered it in an article titled “Craig Wright Avoids $170 Billion Bitcoin
Lawsuit Claim, Must Pay $100M”..the article states “Craig Wright, who claims he is Bitcoin
inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, is off the hook for a multibillion-dollar payment to the
estate of computer scientist Dave Kleiman, which argued that the men created Bitcoin together.
But Wright will still have to pay $100 million to the company he and Kleiman founded after a
federal jury in Florida found the nChain chief scientist liable for conversion.
So Craig won, but also lost..does this prove anything? Well the decrypto article
continued…Wright says he won't appeal. If true, this will bring to an end a long legal chapter
that has failed to produce any clear answers as to the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright told
reporters that the verdict meant he was Bitcoin's sole creator: "The jury has obviously found that
I am because there would have been no award otherwise." Yet neither Wright nor his defense
were willing or able to provide private keys belonging to Nakamoto that could prove his claims
Yes the Satoshi wallets, and private keys hodl at least over 1 million Bitcoin. They bitcoin inside
them have never been moved or touched…Craig could automatically prove he is the creator,
by moving some of the bitcoin and signing the transaction, but this has yet to happen.
If Craig want’s to fully prove he is Satoshi, just do what everyone has been waiting
for…Unlock the coins and sign the message.
Now the reason, I don’t think it’s a sole person who is alive, is because how could
someone resist that type of temptation? Billions upon billions of dollars are at your disposal,
and you won’t touch any of it? Greed is a powerful thing, and if Satoshi was just a
sole person who is alive…I don’t think they would be able to resist that temptation.
Sooo, is it a sole person who is dead? Well the #1 contender for this case is Hal Finney. Hal
Finney was the first, besides Satoshi to adopt Bitcoin, he stated on Twitter January 11th 2009,
that he was Running Bitcoin just 8 days after it was launched by Satoshi. Then there is this…
Three months ago on the Bitcoin reddit there was this post “Is Hal Finney Satoshi Nakamoto?
Evidence thus far” The post stated “NSA and other very talented investigators/engineers
have concluded that Satoshi Nakamoto hid his tracks too well. The only remaining way to know
who created Bitcoin is stylometry (using writing style to compare two like-minded entities in hopes
of discovering a better version of a person's fingerprint). The researcher found, Both Satoshi’s
and Hals writings have a double-space after every sentence. Both are written, according to AI,
the same exact way. All of it, everything, is written in the same tone, sentence structure, etc.
More evidence that might help: Dorian Nakamoto lived on the same street as Hal. He picked his
last name in addition to a Japanese first name to look anonymous. Hal writes in British English
quite often. So does Satoshi. Hal got immobile from Lou Gehrig's Disease and stopped contributing
to the internet at the exact time that Satoshi said goodbye. Hal died and we haven't seen Satoshi
since. Hal had two IP's connected to his house through a PRISM analysis. One was connected to
an 'internet freedom' forum and one posted on the same one only 'twice' -- so did Satoshi
with the proof of this below and then…Hal's IP and Satoshi's are possibly on the same street.
Satoshi didn't use a VPN for a POST request to a forum. Neither did Hal with the proof below….
Sooo a sole person that is alive? Very unlikely…a sole person that is no longer living like Hal…i
believe is more likely. But what about the possibility,
that this was conjured by a group of people? Going back to the daily spelling habits of Satoshi,
we can see it was different for each day of the week. Was it a different person writing each day??
Well Hal was actually part of a group called the Cypherpunks.
From this 2018 medium article by PetriB titled “The untold history of Bitcoin:
Enter the Cypherpunks” we can get early insights into this group. Under the section Early Attempts
we can see The first attempt at an anonymous transacting system was made by Dr. Adam Back
in 1997 when he created Hashcash. The second attempt came the next year in 1998 from Wei Dai
with his proposal B-Money. Then in 2004, Hal Finney created Reusable Proofs of Work which
borrowed from the principles of Backs’ Hashcash and in 2005 Nick Szabo published a proposal for
Bitgold which built on the ideas developed by Hal Finney and various other projects.
Now going to the Bitcoin Whitepaper, we can see many of these previous attempts referenced. Of
course proof of work is used, but then searching by Adam Backs’s hashcash it is in the paper,
as well as the references, and also wei dai’s b-money is there.
Could it have been this group, working together to finally complete what they all had been
attempting to do? Could this have been their end game? Putting all their powers together?
Or could Bitcoin be created by the powers that be? Like a government agency?? Just a couple days ago,
the current director of the CIA William Burns, said the agency was deep into cryptocurrency
with a number of different projects focused on cryptocurrency.
Could Bitcoin be their original and first one?? Well the CIA has insights into Bitcoin
and Satoshi that no one else does. In June of 2018, Vice Motherboard author Daniel Oberhaus
put out this article “The CIA ‘Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny’ It Has Documents on Satoshi Nakamoto”.
The article states “In 2016, Alexander Muse, a blogger who mostly writes about entrepreneurship,
wrote a blog post that claimed the NSA had identified the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto
using stylometry, which uses a person’s writing style as a unique fingerprint, and then searched
emails collected under the PRISM surveillance program to identify the real Nakamoto. Muse
said the identity was not shared with him by his source at the Department of Homeland Security”.
NSA knows who Nakamoto is. The author continues “As of February, Muse said he had submitted a FOIA
request to the DHS to learn more about the case. While recently filing some unrelated FOIA requests
of my own, I figured it couldn’t hurt to ask some other three-letter agencies what they know about
Nakamoto. My request with the FBI is still open, but a month after I filed my FOIA request with
the CIA, I received a terse reply that informed me that “the request has been rejected, with the
agency stating that it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the requested documents.”
This is known as a “Glomar response,” and the CIA is famous for wielding this turn
of phrase to avoid releasing information about open investigations. In fact, the CIA’s very
first tweet paid homage to the agency’s notorious opacity and wrote that “We can neither confirm
nor deny that this is our first tweet.” So if the government actually knows who Nakamoto is,
it isn’t too keen on sharing that information just yet…
The Glomar response, which means they know. The NSA knows, the CIA
knows….is that because it’s them? Or do they have evidence it’s Hal, it’s Craig,
it’s the Cypher Punks, or maybe Elon Musk? Cheers viewers I’ll see you next time!