Lopp Blog

Cypherpunk Cogitations is Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp's blog, publishing original research such as blockchain analysis of Satoshi's mining activity.

2022

2023

2 entries

Event October 21, 2023 Added April 28, 2026 Updated September 19, 2026 Article

Jameson Lopp: Hal Finney could not have been Satoshi Nakamoto

Jameson Lopp ↔ Hal Finney, Satoshi Nakamoto, Mike Hearn, Martti Malmi, Fran Finney

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.

Event September 16, 2022 Added February 22, 2026 Updated September 27, 2026 Article

Jameson Lopp analyzes whether Satoshi Nakamoto was a 'greedy' miner

Jameson Lopp ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Sergio Demian Lerner

Jameson Lopp shows Satoshi deliberately throttled mining capacity, earning ~1.1M BTC when full capacity could have yielded ~2.19M BTC. Anyone claiming Satoshi was greedy hasn't done the math.