Satoshi Nakamoto

Markets

The emails between Satoshi and Hal Finney come from Bitcoin’s earliest days. They show how closely the cryptocurrency’s creator collaborated with early supporters at the time.

By Michael KapilkovNov 26, 2020

Markets

Was Satoshi’s release of the Bitcoin White Paper an allusion to the Reformation or something to do with the ancient pagan tradition of Samhain?

By Nathaniel WhittemoreOct 30, 2020

Tech

Researchers believe Bitcoin’s creator probably used specialized mining software in the coin’s early days to protect the new network – not to profit from it.

By Colin Harper, Blockspace MediaAug 31, 2020

Tech

We asked four expert cryptographers about Craig Wright’s “cryptographic evidence” that he is Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto. They aren't buying it.

By Alyssa HertigJul 23, 2020

Tech

New on-chain analysis from Whale Alert suggests Satoshi Nakamoto mined an estimated 1,125,150 in bitcoin, now worth an estimated $10.9 billion.

By William FoxleyJul 20, 2020

Markets

There is a constant free market competition to define the Bitcoin narrative, and Kraken’s Dan Held argues this is part of what makes the protocol so strong.

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 1, 2020

Markets

Paul Calder LeRoux, an admitted drug dealer with a background in encryption, planned to build a bitcoin miner had he beaten the rap.

By Nikhilesh DeJun 12, 2020

Markets

As bitcoin traders struggle to bust through $10,000, there's a new claimant to the title of Satoshi Nakamoto. CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast is back with your bitcoin news roundup.

By Adam B. LevineJun 8, 2020

Tech

Noelle Acheson compares the soaring rhetoric of JP Barlow’s Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace with the quiet innovation of Satoshi’s bitcoin.

By Noelle AchesonJun 7, 2020

Markets

How the myth-making around Satoshi reinforces what makes bitcoin unique in the landscape of global monies.

By Nathaniel WhittemoreMay 22, 2020