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The true identity of the enigmatic Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto continues to fuel speculation among the crypto community. Take a look at the most interesting news brought to you by U.Today in 2022; maybe they will shed some light on this mystery.
Did Satoshi Nakamoto meet with the SEC five years ago?
Back in SeptemberFox Business journalist Eleanor Terrett Obtained a copy of former SEC Director Bill Hinman’s public calendar. According to the contents of the calendar, on August 23, 2017, Hinman met with venture capitalist Tim Draper, Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and SEC official Valerie Szczepanik. It appears that Draper and both SEC representatives found out who Satoshi really was, but three days later Draper tweeted that he had been targeted by a “convincing” Satoshi impersonator. complains that the latter wastes too much time.
Ripple CTO said that “Satoshi” could be a part
While writing a thread about Craig Wright’s claim, Ripple CTO David Schwartz He commented that he might be part of “Satoshi”, the group of people who created Bitcoin. In 2020, he said, given the difficulty and skill required to create Bitcoin, it may require the involvement of a group of people rather than a single individual. Schwartz believes he can do almost anything Satoshi does. Unfortunately, Ripple CTO saidhe didn’t learn about the world’s largest cryptocurrency until 2011.
The legal battles of self-proclaimed Satoshi Craig Wright: one defeat and one Pyrrhic victory
On March 25, 2022, Craig Wright’s controversial claim from 2020 was finally ended, and not in his favor. The Supreme Court rejected Wright’s claim that the private keys of his wallet containing 80,000 BTC were stolen by hackers, and thus the Bitcoin developers must grant him access to said wallet because they owe him a fiduciary duty. However, Judge Falk ruled self-proclaimed Satoshi has no legal basis to sue the main BTC developers.
However, the 2019 lawsuit against the podcaster Peter McCormack “win”: Craig Wright received compensation of £1. The legal battle began after McCormack called the self-proclaimed Satoshi a fraud, which Wright considered defamatory. Interestingly, Wright was seeking $122,000, but Judge Chamberlain only awarded nominal damages after it was revealed that key parts of Wright’s evidence were false, such as not being invited to academic conferences, according to McCormack.
Satoshi’s identity may have been revealed by Martin Shkreli
Two weeks ago, on December 13, the biotech entrepreneur Martin Shkreli A Substack shared a post saying that it may have discovered the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Shkreli claims that former programmer and ex-criminal cartel boss Paul Le Roux has been hiding behind the mask of Bitcoin creator all this time. To prove his point, Shkreli provided the transaction signature cipher of the first transfer sent to the late bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney. The decryption reads: “This transaction was made by Paul Leroux on January 12, 2009 by Hal Finney #bitcoin.” However, two Bitcoin core developers, Peter Wuille and Greg Maxwell, were skeptical of Shkreli’s revelation.
Elon Musk shares the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto tweet
Some news should be taken with a pinch of humor (especially when it comes to Elon Musk’s tweets), and the following is one of them. In a post on Twitter on March 9, the Tesla CEO shared a meme It is related to the origin of the name Satoshi Nakamoto. If we combine the names of the largest Asian companies and corporations (Samsung, Toshiba, Nakamichi and Motorola), the name “Satoshi Nakamoto” can be formed. Some users suggested that the meme was a hint that Satoshi’s background is a mix of Korean and American, while others assumed that the post was sarcastic and that there was no hidden message.
Charles Hoskinson responded to a question about “pretending to be Satoshi.”
While interviewing the creator of Cardano in June Charles Hoskinson, crypto YouTuber Alexander Lorenzo asked everyone to suggest questions to ask his future interviewer. An anonymous Twitter user who goes by Chaddydill.eth asked why Hoskinson claimed to be Satoshi when he was working on Ethereum in the early 2010s. Charles was quick to reply – perhaps wanting to close the thread once and for all – that he was only 20 years old when Bitcoin was launched. He also denied ever claiming to be Satoshi and advised the user not to believe everything they read online.