Satoshi Nakamoto
Sign in to saveSatoshi 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 until December 2010.
Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by whoever created Bitcoin and wrote the foundational paper describing how it works, though their real identity remains unknown. This person or group stopped being publicly involved with Bitcoin in late 2010, but their invention of Bitcoin and the blockchain technology underlying it has had enormous influence on cryptocurrencies and digital finance.
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- group of humans
- Given name
- Satoshi
- Occupation
- software engineer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- cryptocurrency
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- 2008-00-00
- end of work period
- 2010-00-00
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- Satoshi Nakamoto
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Satoshi Nakamoto (fl. 31 October 2008 – 26 April 2011) 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 until December 2010.
Nakamoto's true identity is unknown. Various people have been posited as the person or group of people behind his name. He used a Japanese name and gave his residence as Japan, but many have speculated that he is actually a British software and cryptography expert who worked on bitcoin in the United Kingdom. If Nakamoto is an individual person, then his bitcoin holdings make him one of the wealthiest people in the world. His wallet, which has been untouched since 2010, holds an estimated 1.1 million bitcoins. As of 14 July 2025, their price was more than $123,000 each, meaning the contents of Nakamoto's wallet would have been worth nearly $135 billion.
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