We still don't know who created Bitcoin but it definitely wasn't Linus Torvalds

Date:
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 18:09:45 +0000

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Who created Bitcoin? One thing is clear - it wasn't Linux creator Linus Torvalds.

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The question of who created Bitcoin has been a mystery ever since the iconic white paper, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System , was published
by the pseudonymous "Satoshi Nakamoto" in 2008. No one has ever come forward with legitimate proof it was them and until that happens, the mystery persists.

One thing is for sure, though: Satoshi isn't Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux , who sparked some fun debate by inserting a line into the Linux source code : "NAME = I am Satoshi".

But despite the story rapidly sweeping social media and crypto blogs alike, Torvalds quickly poured cold water on the joke. Has Linus Torvalds (inventor of Linux & Git) just announced himself to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of #Bitcoin? pic.twitter.com/zih69vDJJi January 27, 2022 See more

"I'm afraid that is just a jokester taking advantage of how GitHub works - it shares git objects between different repositories, so you can use the SHA1 'name' of an object to specify something you did in your own tree, and then use my repository as the web name, and make it look like your object is in my tree," he told ZDNet .

After more explanation, Torvalds said that "I'm sadly not the owner of a huge stash of original bitcoins."

Satoshi stepped back from active involvement in the Bitcoin community in 2010 and no one has heard anything from them since. It is unclear if they even still own Bitcoin, although you would hope so, given how crazy the journey
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Over the years, many people have either claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto or
been erroneously revealed to be them.

Newsweek famously published a piece in 2014 claiming to have identified Satoshi as a Japanese man living in California with the same name. The
subject later denied the story through his lawyer and it is widely accepted that this was not, in fact, the creator of the original cryptocurrency.

Over the years, Australian Craig Wrighthas also claimed on multiple occasions to be Satoshi without ever providing conclusive evidence, including showing
he can control the original coins. Many in the crypto community are highly sceptical of his claims. We've found the best Linux laptops around



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