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Questions tagged [satoshi-nakamoto]

Use this tag for questions about the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, and their work on Bitcoin.

Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym of a person or group of people who came up with Bitcoin concept. They are allegedly no longer involved with active development of the technology.

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Which wallets belong to Satoshi Nakamoto?

I am curious to know which wallets belong to Satoshi Nakamoto? I heard that the BTC in them were never moved.
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Does the creator of BitCoin hold a 'master' private key?

If the creator of BitCoin, whoever he/she is, was the one that started the block-chain and with every cryptographic operation deriving from that initial key, would the network be under the complete control of the creator? The only way I could see…
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Do サトシ (Satoshi) or ナカモト (Nakamoto) mean anything in Japanese?

Do サトシ (Satoshi) and ナカモト (Nakamoto) have any special meaning in Japanese? For example, the last name "Smith" or "Miller" refers to a blacksmith or grain miller, respectively.
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Is there any concrete evidence that Wright & Kleiman were involved or not involved in the creation of Bitcoin?

Is there any cryptographically verifiable evidence that one or both Wright & Kleiman were or were not involved with the Satoshi Nakamoto character? Looking for information related to Bitcoin keys, addresses, PGP keys, or any other type of…
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What is the email of Satoshi Nakamoto?

I know the Satoshi Nakamoto profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3 and his public key: http://forum.bitcoin.org/Satoshi_Nakamoto.asc And I know maybe Satoshi is not a real person, but a pseudonymous of a group of people. But…
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Won't DNS records reveal who Satoshi is?

Fine, we don't know who he is. I get that. But he did register bitcoin.org, and as a result had to use a credit card. So the original domain registrar must know who he is, no?
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What were "atoms" in Bitcoin-0.1.0?

Satoshi's first implementation of Bitcoin had a kind of internal marketplace as well. In that part of the code, Atoms are "added" and "propagated" but I'm having a hard time understanding what these data were in modern Bitcoin terms.
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Did Satoshi Nakamoto Really Publish A Second Paper In December, 2015?

http://bitcoinnewschannel.com/2015/12/27/page-2-of-the-hash-tube-signature-scheme-credited-to-satoshi-nakamoto/ The guys working at this site claimed that Satoshi Nakamoto sent them a paper titled (hash tube signatures) which you can read via the…
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Satoshi's IP address(es)?

Does anyone know Satoshi Nakamoto's IP address(es)? The forums he posted on should be able to figure that out. He posted on p2pfoundation.org, bitcointalk.org, and the cryptography mail archive.
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Was this message written by Satoshi?

the program i am writing to parse the bitcoin blockchain got stuck on block 251718. i hadn't yet implemented support for some of the opcodes in the txout script for tx 24 and i'm now in the process of implementing these. anyway, this is not the…
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Where did Staoshi Nakamoto state that bitcoin is gold or digital gold?

I'm confronted by someone who states that Satoshi Nakamoto never compared Bitcoin to gold in the monetary sense (not about mining). However, I'm sure that I recall a quote from Satoshi stating Bitcoin is digital gold which was used several years ago…
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Supposedly 'Satoshi' was found in Australia… is there any way to verify this?

So far I can't tell what's true about all this. It also seems like it'd be easy for someone to claim to be the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. I've only seen information about this from main stream sources. Does anyone know anything beyond the…
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Where is the post where the original Bitcoin Whitepaper was first released?

Possible Duplicate: When and how did Bitcoin start? I understand Satoshi release the original whitepaper to some cryptography mailing list, in 2009 I believe. Can anyone point me to that thread? It would be interesting to see the first responses…
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How did we know that Satoshi Nakamoto has one million bitcoin?

As I know there is no known bitcoin wallet belongs to Satoshi Nakamoto. So how did we know that Satoshi Nakamoto owns between 750000 and 1100000 bitcoin?
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How Much Bitcoin Does Satoshi Have?

How can we calculate all Satoshi Bitcoin holdings? I know about the genesis address 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa and then there are lots of mining addreses When did he stopped mining, sending and receiving money?
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