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==Possible identity==
==Possible identity==
Doubts are casted on his identity and/or nationality. While the few informations available about him point to Japan, he never wrote a single line of Japanese, the Bitcoin client has no Japanese version and there is no Japanese page on [http://bitcoin.org bitcoin.org].
Doubts are casted on his identity and/or nationality. While the few informations available about him point to Japan, he never wrote a single line of Japanese, the Bitcoin client has no Japanese version and there is no Japanese page on [http://bitcoin.org bitcoin.org].
According to popular belief Satoshi Nakamoto looks something like Umemiya Masako.


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Revision as of 06:06, 17 December 2010

Satoshi Nakamoto is the founder of Bitcoin. He is said in a p2p foundation profile[1] that he is from Japan. Beyond that, not much is known about him.

Possible Motives

He left some clues about why he is doing this project when he include the following text in the Genesis block, "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks".

Possible identity

Doubts are casted on his identity and/or nationality. While the few informations available about him point to Japan, he never wrote a single line of Japanese, the Bitcoin client has no Japanese version and there is no Japanese page on bitcoin.org.

Notes