Satoshi Nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or group who developed bitcoin, wrote the bitcoin white paper and released its original reference implementation. Active publicly from October 2008 until April 2011, Nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database as part of that implementation, a design that combined a distributed ledger, proof of work and public key cryptography so that payments could be verified without a central authority. Development passed to other contributors after late 2010. The true identity behind the name has never been established, and many people have been proposed. The wallet attributed to Nakamoto has not moved coins since 2010.