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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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What is a 'Satoshi'?

I am aware that Satoshi Nakamoto is the author of the paper that originated Bitcoin and the creator of the original bitcoin client. However, I often hear the term Satoshi as if it was a monetary unit. What is a Satoshi?
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If someone wanted to pretend to be Satoshi by posting a fake signature to defraud people how could they?

If a random fraudster wanted to post a bunch of mysterious ECDSA signatures that the public would believe came from Bitcoin's creator, in order to disrupt the Bitcoin market, extract money from people, or otherwise convince people to listen to them.…
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Where can I access the original, Satoshi written Bitcoin code?

The articles of https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41718.0 seem to be annotated walkthroughs, and I'd like to see the raw code, as it was originally written in the first release.
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When and how did Bitcoin start?

Exactly when was the first block mined and the first bitcoins generated? How many people knew about the project at this point? Had the project been publicly announced before the first block was mined or did that happen afterwards? Is there anything…
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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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How did Nakamoto untraceably pay for registering bitcoin.org?

Wikipedia says "Nakamoto created a website with the domain name bitcoin.org" and "transferred several related domains", while bitcoin.org says it was "originally registered and owned by Bitcoin's first two developers, Satoshi Nakamoto and Martti…
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Is bitcoin mining itself compromising the security of SHA256

Following good scientific practice I propose a Theory/Hypothesis and now ask you to test it. Initially this is a "thought" experiment but may progress to real testing depending on your thoughts. Back to the initial question first; My question: Is…
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Satoshi's final statement

I read some articles about Satoshi's history and stumbled upon this one: No one knows what Satoshi is up to, but one of the last emails he sent to a software developer, dated April 23 2011, said “I’ve moved on to other things. It’s in good hands…
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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? I have heard about him and read his paper. Why is he no-longer publicly involved in Bitcoin?
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What prior work influenced the design of the Bitcoin instruction set?

The "Script" system used by Bitcoin transactions is commonly described as a Forth-like, stack-based language. What prior work influenced the design and layout of the Script instruction set? There may have been a research paper or essay about a…
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What was the last life sign of Satoshi Nakamoto?

I heard that the name may be a pseudonym and that very little is known about the initiator of bitcoin. Also it seems that he has stopped working on the main client. When was his last verifiable life sign? Did he ever mention or announce his…
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How would we know the real Satoshi?

Should Satoshi decide to reveal his or her true identity, how can one know the person is the real creator of Bitcoin, rather than a person who hacked the forum login, email address or the like? In other words, what methods of authentication did…
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Did Satoshi ever acknowledge that his name was a pseudonym?

I am curious if Satoshi publicly acknowledged that he was concealing his real name, or if he actually claimed that was his real name. Like the title says, did Satoshi ever publicly acknowledge that his name was a pseudonym?
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Why is Poisson instead of Negative Binomial used for computing attacker's potential progress?

In chapter 11 of the Satoshi's paper it is claimed that: The recipient waits until the transaction has been added to a block and z blocks have been linked after it. He doesn't know the exact amount of progress the attacker has made, but…
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How many coins does Satoshi have?

There are rumors that the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, currently possess as much as 1.5m bitcoins. What are the steps involved to determine / guess how many coins Satoshi has?
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