The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the man who created bitcoin, is a mystery people around the world are hoping to solve. Not much about him is known, and his identity has never been completely established.
The invention of the cryptocurrency was disclosed in an email from Satoshi Nakamoto titled “Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper” in October 2008. Satoshi stayed involved in the community over the next two years, collaborating with others on the blockchain’s development. The last post by Satoshi on the Bitcoin forums was made in December 2010, although unconfirmed private messages from April 2011 have surfaced.
There were suspicions that Satoshi, for a fact, wasn’t a single person but a group of people. But email histories show that Satoshi was a lone individual. The coders who remained in contact with Nakamoto would characterize him as a paranoid man. The possibility that someone would destroy Bitcoin or that something might go wrong terrified Satoshi. Overall, this creates the impression that Satoshi Nakamoto was a programmer who created Bitcoin on the side to experiment with the potential of the project.
There have been theories identifying Nakamoto, but none of them have been conclusive enough.
