Satoshi Nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous name of the person or group who developed Bitcoin, authored the Bitcoin white paper published October 31, 2008, and created and deployed Bitcoin's original reference implementation, releasing the first version of the Bitcoin software and launching the network on January 9, 2009. Nakamoto's true identity remains unknown; the pseudonym used a Japanese name and listed Japan as a residence, though most analysis of the writing points to a British or Commonwealth background. Nakamoto ceased public involvement in the project around April 2011. Several individuals have been proposed as Nakamoto's true identity, including Adam Back, Hal Finney, Nick Szabo and Craig Wright, all of whom have denied it; a UK court ruled in 2024 that Craig Wright was not Satoshi Nakamoto.