Is this Sotashi? Many use this photo for printing on T-shirts and other items with the text "I Am Satoshi Nakamato"
The question is one of the mysteries of our time. Who is Who or what is Satoshi Nakamato?
The Japanese name is the pseudonym of the founder of Bitcoin, the virtual currency that begins to get the dimensions of the internet. But his real identity is unknown.
What we know is that 2008, Satoshi developed the theory of Bitcoin (PDF) and later created the software that would make it happen.
Since then digital currency has become increasingly popular and Satoshi has disappeared, announcing that “it started with other projects.” Mystery has become an important part of the Bitcoin myth. The developer of the idea that would shake the world has become a mystery and part of the charm of Bitcoin is that no one knows how and where it came from.
A very simple definition for Bitcoin can be developed into five words: Money generated by electronic codes computers.
Lately, conspiracy theories about the identity of Satoshi have also implicated Silk Road administrator Ross Ulbricht, also known by the alias Dread Pirate Roberts. Dread Pirate Roberts, according to two Israeli computer scientists investigating the matter, received a large sum of money starting the online narco-market, which probably came from Sotashi. The experts, Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir, said: "We discovered a pathway (but we can't prove it) that shows the relationship between the two, Satoshi Nakamoto and Dread Pirate Roberts.”
Who else can it be?
There are enough people in the list of potential developers of the digital coin, but none of them admit to having a role in its development.
In 201, Joshua Davis, a journalist with The New Yorker, "showed" an Irish IT student Michael Clear as the mastermind of digital currency. Of course the student did not admit his participation. "I'm not Satoshi," he told Joshua Davis. "But even if I were I would not tell you."
What we all know is that Bitcoin is associated with anonymity. Payments are very difficult to trace, as is its mysterious founder, who today must be very rich. At the time of writing, the price of Bitcoin has reached $ 1160.
