A theory regarding who created Bitcoin, is doing the rounds of social media and this time the suspect is former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The theory was put forth by deBanked’s editor-in-chief, Sean Murray, who says that all the dates and facts line up with his claim. He claims that Dorsey is the real Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous name and creator behind Bitcoin.
Murray, in his post on X, laid out all the pointers, one of them being that when Dorsey was incollege, he was interested in cypherpunk culture. He wore a t-shirt with the RSA logo from Adam Back, the creator of Hashcash, got newsletters about cryptography, and took a university course that focused on it.
Murray further said that in 2003, Dorsey wrote an autobiography where he talked about hacking and working on cryptography late at night, around 4 am. Interestingly, the original Bitcoin code documents have timestamps from around the same time.
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Murray says that Dorsey also wrote about stopping his reliance on the US dollar and creating a system to trade goods without money. He further added that Dorsey’s Twitter profile once stated that he was a sailor and interestingly, the original bitcoin code has a saying which goes, ‘Never go to sea with two chronometers — take one or three.’
Another thing that Murray picked up on was when Satoshi had accidentally logged into an IRC chat which revealed his location to be in California. This happened in 2009 and at that time, Dorsey was also in California.
Murray pointed out a few other interesting coincidences, like the first Bitcoin transaction occurred on Dorsey’s mother’s birthday. And another one being that Satoshi joined the Bitcoin forum on Dorsey’s birthday.
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However, analysts from BitMEX Research disagreed with these claims. They said it’s hard to know exactly when Satoshi stopped mining because the “Patoshi pattern” has changed over time. Replying to the point where Murray says that Satoshi’s last mined block was on Dorsey’s dad’s birthday, BitMEX wrote, “How do you know Satoshi’s last mined block, when the patoshi pattern gradually degrades over time?”
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