Dan Kaminsky

Forensicxs published a line-by-line walkthrough of Bitcoin v0.1's 31,794 lines of source code, covering all 31 files.

Craig Wright declared himself Satoshi in coordinated interviews with the BBC, The Economist and GQ. The cryptographic proof on his blog was soon debunked: he had reused a 2009 transaction signature.

One 2013 sentence praised Bitcoin's engineering and predicted governments would keep the upper hand. Gates's criticism since — anonymity, speculation, energy — never touched the design.

American developer (luke-jr), long-tenured Bitcoin Core contributor. Maintains Bitcoin Knots; co-founded Ocean mining pool (2023). Suffered a $3.5M+ wallet theft in late 2022 (compromised PGP key).

Benjamin Wallace's Wired feature — an early major mainstream article on Bitcoin. Traces the whitepaper, mining boom, Mt. Gox hack, and growing pains, ending with Garzik's "We really don't care."

After Len Sassaman's death (July 3, 2011), security researcher Dan Kaminsky embedded an ASCII-art tribute into the Bitcoin blockchain, announced July 30 and revealed at Black Hat USA 2011.

American cryptographer (1980-2011), Mixmaster lead developer, KU Leuven PhD candidate. Died by suicide 68 days after Satoshi's last message. Later named in a Satoshi-identity hypothesis.

The Mixmaster developer who died 68 days after Satoshi's last known email. The evidence for Len Sassaman as Satoshi, weighed.

Bitcoin v0.1's unusual distribution and missing tooling (.rar packaging, no version control, no tests), read against Warez-scene conventions and Kaminsky's 2011 security audit.

Unidentified individual or group who authored the Bitcoin white paper (October 31, 2008), wrote the software, mined the genesis block, and guided early development before disappearing in April 2011.

Doubters called it unscalable in 2008. A famed hacker failed to break the code. A judge, a dictionary, and a Nobel nominator weighed in. What others said about Satoshi, read as one record.