An online profile for the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, includes an auspicious birthday of April 5, 1975.Eighty-eight years ago today, the United States Federal government issued Executive Order 6102, making citizen’s private ownership of gold illegal. This egregious overstep of government-mandated monetary policy is, coincidentally, the chosen date of Satoshi Nakamoto’s birthday, according to...
The legendary moniker has been passed on to the community that made the decentralized payment network known as Bitcoin what it is.Nearly 12 years have passed since the release of the Bitcoin white paper, and we are no closer to finding out the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. There have been countless investigations, claims, and theories...
PLUS: What you need to know about $COIN The SEC received a bitcoin ETF application from Fidelity this week, marking the sixth such filing within the U.S. For a brief second, it also seemed Goldman Sachs filed too, but, as it was later clarified, Goldman only...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Len Sassaman is a name indelibly associated with Bitcoin, and a recent article claims he could be the pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto Sassaman was a talented cryptographer who has many links to the core Bitcoin developers Nakamoto’s last...
A user from the online platform of Substack believes that he has accidentally found the anonymous BTC creator's old Twitter account. The mentioned user is called Varun, and he thinks an old account named Goldlover has some strong connections to Satoshi's behavior at that time. The old Twitter account had many tweets regarding gold. Varun speculates that the word "gold" in these tweets...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Satoshi Nakamoto’s old Twitter account has not just been uncovered by a crypto researcher Varun Mather thought he had uncovered the old Twitter account and offered masses of evidence for his theory The real account owner was revealed as being...
Reading Time: 2 minutes The long-awaited Wright vs McCormack trial began yesterday over video link Craig Wright sued Peter McCormack in April 2019 when McCormack called Wright a fraud The case is to judge whether McCormack’s comments hurt Wright’s reputation in the UK...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Satoshi Nakamoto hasn’t been heard from since December 2010 Could he have quietly reappeared as an artist on Spotify? We look at the credentials of three Satoshi Nakamoto musicians Many in the crypto space have spent time wondering what...
Reading Time: 3 minutes Satoshi Nakamoto publicly walked away from Bitcoin in 2010 and hasn’t been heard from since With the protocol vastly bigger and his personal wealth some $32 billion, would he likely be tempted to out himself? We look at the reasons why the real...
A technical manifesto, the Bitcoin white paper was released in 2008 under an MIT public license for all to learn from, share and enjoy.
Craig Wright is fighting to lay claim to the creation of Bitcoin yet again. This time, his lawyers have contacted Bitcoin.org and Bitcoincore.org, alleging copyright infringement of the Bitcoin whitepaper. Craig Wright Claims Bitcoin Whitepaper, Again Craig Steven Wright isn't ready to give up the fight for Bitcoin...
The open-source project said it would not comply with Wright's demand to take down its copy of the iconic founding document.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hodlonaut has decried the attitude of Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre in his legal case against Wright Hodlonaut has criticized their attempts to unmask him and bully him into dropping the case The UK High Court allegedly rejected Wright’s filing in...
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bitcoin critics like to argue that Bitcoin is not backed by anything and therefore has no value This puts it potentially in the same category as art, which also has little tangible value Was Satoshi Nakamoto not just a technical genius but in...
When the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, launched the Genesis Block on Jan. 3, 2009, they left a timestamp referencing The Times newspaper's front page from the same day. The "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" message has a much deeper meaning, one that...
Bitcoin’s price continues to climb, BTC is leaving exchanges, and bitcoin "whale" sightings are becoming more frequent. But the question remains, why?
Slush Pool has immortalized a potentially iconic Reuters headline on the Bitcoin blockchain.
The emails between Satoshi and Hal Finney come from Bitcoin’s earliest days. They show how closely the cryptocurrency’s creator collaborated with early supporters at the time.
The transaction is the latest in a number of recent moves from BTC wallets that have lain dormant for 10 years.
Tomorrow marks 12 years since Satoshi Nakamoto distributed a link to a whitepaper entitled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System via a cypherpunk cryptography mailing list, and the world has never been the same since. As the first-ever cryptocurrency is about to celebrate the twelfth anniversary of the whitepaper's historic release, tomorrow could also be the first monthly close above $12,000 since December...
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