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A Reading Guide to Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin
A curated way in: questions about Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin history, each pointing to where this archive answers it in full.
Newsweek
Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.
14 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
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Was Dorian Nakamoto Satoshi? The man whose legal name was, literally, Satoshi Nakamoto
His legal name was, literally, Satoshi Nakamoto — and a 2014 Newsweek cover story named him. The evidence, weighed.
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Dorian Nakamoto (1949–) — Japanese-American engineer falsely identified as Satoshi by Newsweek
Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto (1949–): Japanese-American engineer in Temple City, CA. Falsely identified by Newsweek (2014) as Bitcoin's creator. Self-denied. Community raised 67+ BTC for him.
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Was Hal Finney Satoshi? — RPOW's author, with a real Satoshi Nakamoto living blocks from his door
He built RPOW, received the first Bitcoin transaction, and lived blocks from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. The evidence for Hal Finney as Satoshi, weighed.
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes: 'Nakamoto's Neighbor — The Bitcoin Ghostwriter Who Wasn't'
March 25, 2014 Forbes feature: Andy Greenberg followed the Temple City coincidence to Hal Finney, then dropped the theory after seeing Finney's 2009 emails with Satoshi and his wallet record.
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Why hasn't Satoshi been found? An asymmetry analysis of the public record
Reads the asymmetry between public attempts to identify Satoshi, the surviving material trail, and the persistent identification gap.
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Satoshi Nakamoto's anonymity: the six-layered wall nobody could strip
Structural reading of how "Satoshi Nakamoto" remained unidentified across development, public phase, and withdrawal. Six layers: pseudonym, channels, language, env, genesis constants, handover.
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Was Peter Todd Satoshi? — a reply that seemed to finish Satoshi's thought, two days before Satoshi vanished
A reply that read like the continuation of Satoshi's thought — and two days later, Satoshi went silent. The evidence for HBO's Peter Todd identification, weighed.
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Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto: 12 Geniuses and the Mystery of the Century
Recurring Satoshi candidates aligned across four independent layers — profile match, stylometric attribution, direct correspondence, and development environment.
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Was Len Sassaman Satoshi? Final communications sixty-eight days before his death
The Mixmaster developer who died 68 days after Satoshi's last known email. The evidence for Len Sassaman as Satoshi, weighed.
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Jameson Lopp: Hal Finney could not have been Satoshi Nakamoto
Jameson Lopp argues Hal Finney could not have been Satoshi: on April 18, 2009, Finney was running a 10-mile race in Santa Barbara during a window of Satoshi network activity.
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Tracing Satoshi Nakamoto — every documented event from 2008 to the disputed 2014 return
Interactive D3 timeline of every documented Satoshi event — correspondence, mailing lists, BitcoinTalk, P2P Foundation, SourceForge — from August 20, 2008 to the disputed 2014 P2P Foundation post.
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What did Satoshi say about himself? — a man who spoke of technology, not of himself
Inventory of every Satoshi self-reference in the public record (Aug 2008 – Apr 2011): identity claims, dev disclosures, operational state, farewells, authenticity-disputed. Each row anchored.
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Satoshi's P2P Foundation account briefly returns to deny Dorian Nakamoto (2014)
The day after Newsweek named Dorian Nakamoto as Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi's dormant P2P Foundation account posted a one-sentence denial. The post's authenticity has been debated since.