Satoshi Nakamoto, whose English name is Satoshi Nakamoto, claims to be Japanese-American. He is the creator of Bitcoin, the inventor of blockchain technology, and the leader of the crypto world. But he is such a person, and so far, no one in the world knows his true identity.

After April 2011, the anonymous creator left the emerging crypto community to work on other projects.

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Is he one person or a group of people?

What is his purpose?

How many bitcoins does he have?

Will he show up again?

Is he dead?

It remains a mystery

On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" on the cryptography mailing list of the "metzdowd.com" website. This paper is the Bitcoin white paper. The white paper also explains blockchain technology and encryption algorithm technology, and can be said to be the world's first cryptocurrency white paper.

On January 3, 2009, based on the content of the Bitcoin white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto developed the first client program to implement the Bitcoin algorithm and mined the first 50 Bitcoins on a small server in Helsinki, Finland, marking the official birth of the Bitcoin financial system. Nine days later, Satoshi Nakamoto transferred 10 Bitcoins to developer Hal Finney. According to rumors, Satoshi Nakamoto has nearly 1 million Bitcoins in his wallet.

On December 12, 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto published his last article in the Bitcoin forum, and then he stopped appearing in public, only contacting a few people in the Bitcoin core development team through email. On April 26, 2011, after contacting Gavin Andresen, the leader of the Bitcoin core development team, Satoshi Nakamoto immediately closed his email and never communicated with anyone again. So far, Satoshi Nakamoto has completely disappeared. There have been various different opinions about the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto in recent years. Some people speculate that he is the Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki, because his research field is mathematical algorithms, but Shinichi Mochizuki himself denied it.

Some people also say that Satoshi Nakamoto is Nick Szabo, a former professor at George Washington University, but this news has not been confirmed.

Many people believe that it might be Apple founder Steve Jobs.

After Apple macOS Mojave, every Mac computer has a hidden file. Copy the following file path to the "Terminal" in the Apple computer open/System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf [Open "Terminal" (usually in the "Other" folder of the "Launchpad")] Press the Enter key. Next, you can see the Bitcoin white paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" built into your Apple computer. According to Apple's update log, the Mojave system was first released on September 24, 2018, which means that this document was built into the Apple computer operating system and distributed to all users at least 5 years ago. This is really cool!

But how come the files that were put in in 2018 were only discovered recently? In fact, users discussed this issue in Apple’s official community in 2021.

Why is there a program called VirtualScanner II in ImageCapture and it also comes with the Bitcoin white paper?

Why is this in /System? Is this really Apple's? What are the benefits? How can I uninstall it? Because it is in /System, it is write-protected and cannot be simply deleted. Looking back, netizens found that Josh D discovered this little secret on November 28, 2020. Of course, it is not ruled out that someone discovered it earlier, but did not make a public announcement.

The identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has been a huge mystery for many years, just as the image of Satoshi Nakamoto has been changing in previous comics.

He created Bitcoin, the most unique financial system in human history, but suddenly disappeared after completing it. To this day, we don’t know whether he is a man or a woman, how old he is, or whether he is an individual or an organization.

Although there are many people who claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, such as computer scientist Craig Wright, who has repeatedly claimed that he is the creator of Bitcoin, the way to verify the authenticity is actually very simple. He can easily prove his identity by accessing Bitcoin's Genesis wallet.

But the millions of bitcoins in the Genesis wallet have been lying quietly for 10 years without being moved.

On April 5 this year, network engineer Andy Baio published an article on http://waxy.org titled "The Bitcoin White Paper Is Hidden in Every Modern Version of macOS." This article made the discussion about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity a hot topic again.

Many people speculate that Jobs is actually Satoshi Nakamoto.

The only comparable chain of evidence is that Satoshi Nakamoto’s last appearance was in a post on the http://bitcointalk.org forum on December 12, 2010.

Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011.

From the timeline, the time when Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared makes sense with the time when Steve Jobs died.

Jobs created a great company, Apple. Is he Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin? With the death of Jobs, it has become an unsolved mystery!