Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Actually, nobody who does would share that information. The real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto has been a mystery since the year of creating Bitcoin. Many people believe that Satoshi is a group of people, not one person. The creator of Bitcoin disappeared in December 2010, at that time he stopped communicating with Bitcoin users. Throughout the entire history of Bitcoin, there were many suspicions about Satoshi Nakamoto. 

Hall Finney

Hall Finney was a programmer involved in developing Bitcoin, who received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto. A writing analysis consultancy compared a sample of Finney’s writing to Satoshi’s and found it to be the most similar they worked with before. However, Finney proved that he is not a Bitcoin creator by showing an email conversation with Nakamoto and the history of his Bitcoin wallet. He died in 2014 due to nerve disease.

Nick Szabo 

Nick Szabo is known for his essay called Smart Contracts: Building Blocks for Digital Markets. Moreover, he published a concept of decentralized currency based on cryptography called bit gold which is considered to be the precursor of Bitcoin. In 2013, a blogger Skye Grey decided to make a stylometric analysis of the way of speech of both Nick and Satoshi. However, he also denied being Satoshi Nakamoto. In the short email, he thanked for the appreciation and admitted that he is used to being accused of being Satoshi Nakamoto.

Dorian Nakamoto

In March 2014, Newsweek published an article that Satoshi Nakamoto is a Japanese-American physician living in California - Dorian Nakamoto, his birth name was Satoshi Nakamoto. He was an engineer working with secret military projects and he had libertarian views. The biggest evidence is Dorian’s answer to the question about being Satoshi:,,I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it. It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection.”. It caused a huge interest in his person, including reporters camping outside his house. On the same day, the pseudonymous Nakamoto's P2P Foundation account posted its first message in five years, stating: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto.". However, that account was probably hacked before, so that might be fake information. In the next interview, Dorian said that he has never known about cryptocurrency and that he misinterpreted the question as being about his previous work for the military. 

Craig Wright

Craig Wright admitted in the interview that he is the real Satoshi Nakamoto, which caused a raid of police and representatives of the tax office on his house. On 8th December 2015, the magazine Wired wrote that Craig "either invented bitcoin or is a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did ''. What makes that theory true? First of all, two journalists confirmed that they saw Craig using the same cryptographic key as Satoshi. Secondly, Craig Wright admitted that he was the creator of Bitcoin. Moreover, Jon Matis - A bitcoin developer, also noticed that he was using Satoshi’s cryptographic key. However, Dan Kaminsky and other Bitcoin developers accused Craig of misleading people because there is no publicly available cryptographic evidence that he was Satoshi. He wanted to answer those accusations but decided not to do that because he said that all events after his doing scared him so much that there is no courage for further publications.

Summary

It is possible that we would never know who the real Satoshi Nakamoto is. The sad thing is that they could be dead which did not let them see what masterpiece they created. The reveal of the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto would be a shocking event in the cryptocurrency field and could cause huge fluctuations in the market.