Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper in October 2008 and vanished after a final private email in April 2011, leaving a primary record of 39 emails and 543 forum posts in public archives. Several candidates have been proposed — Finney, Szabo, Back, Wright — but as of August 2026 no one has produced a decisive cryptographic signature, and in the case of Craig Wright the UK High Court issued four declarations on 20 May 2024 that he is not Satoshi. The roughly 1.1 million BTC attributed to Satoshi has never moved in the more than 17 years since it was mined in 2009.