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For those who still don't know (it's not for you), Satoshi Nakamoto is the anonymous creator of Bitcoin and he left us a roadmap but also a halo of mystery that feeds all kinds of rumours, sometimes with more sense than others. Without taking into account the words of Dan Pena in which he declared that it was of Russian authorship, many people have been associated over time with the authorship of the code, but Nakamoto's true identity was never exposed, giving rise to speculation since October 13, 2008, the date on which he published the paper "bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", considered as the bitcoin whitepaper. I left it to the readers to draw your own conclusions.
Linus Torvalds (creator of the Linux operating system) modified a kernel code, a fundamental core of the free operating system that commands all software and added the phrase "Name: I am Satoshi" despite having previously stated that he was not Satoshi when asked if he has the necessary skills to be a candidate.
Craig Wright, an Australian businessman and computational scientist, has also claimed to be the creator of Bitcoin and also after previously denying it. Many people have trusted his words and demonstrations on the BBC, where he digitally signed messages using cryptographic keys that were created during the early stages of bitcoin's creation. There were others, such as Dan Kaminsky, who stated that the process was "maliciously resistant" to validation.
Michael Clear, a cryptography student at Trinity College Dublin, was singled out by the New Yorker's Joshua Davis after analyzing 80,000 words of Nakamoto's writings and looking for grammatical matches. Michael Clear publicly denied it.
Neal KingVladimir OksmanCharles Bry were also suspected of the honor when Fast Company's Adam Penenberg wanted to contradict Joshua Davis.
In addition to these, several more people may be possible creators of Bitcoin, but to this day no one has yet convinced the crypto community of everything, which will only recognize as the chosen one the one who unlocks one of Satoshi's virtual purses, a wallet that houses 150 bitcoin that are at rest since the date of the cryptocurrency creation
