Who is the creator of Bitcoin cryptocurrency? The answer that will be received when doing a Wikipedia, Google and ChatGPT search is Satoshi Nakamoto. However, Satoshi Nakamoto who published the Bitcoin white paper in 2008 is the pseudonym of an individual whose identity remains a mystery. But according to the director of the documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery on HBO, the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd a software developer from Canada.
The true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto was determined using various online information and looking at the history of his interactions with Peter Todd. Peter Todd is one of the individuals who said he had contacted Satoshi Nakamoto before this mysterious character disappeared in 2010.
Even so, Peter Todd when contacted said he was not the creator of Bitcoin despite being one of the suspected individuals for a long time. In addition to Todd, Dorian Nakamoto a physicist and Nick Szabo a computer scientist are also among the candidates who also deny that they are Satoshi Nakamoto.
Only Craig Wright, an Australian made an open admission that he was the inventor of Bitcoin but this claim was rejected by the UK court in favor of the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) who dragged him to court.
Satoshi Nakamoto will remain an enigma in the crypto world because he started the global cryptocurrency fever. He also holds 1 million Bitcoins which is now worth RM 267 billion with no activity detected on the account since 2010.