The ever-elusive Bitcoin inventor has climbed new heights of global wealth. ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ – the presumed pseudonym for the man (or possibly even a group), who pushed the original Bitcoin white paper in 2008 and the first Bitcoin block in 2009, is believed to have soared to the post of the 12th richest person in the world.
According to Bitstamp’s exchange rate, as quoted by Bitcoin.com News, the Bitcoin founder valued at $128.92 billion has surpassed Michael Dell’s $124.8 billion fortune. Even with the big numbers in focus and an estimated 1.096 million BTC, the person behind crypto’s flight is still hidden behind a mysterious shroud.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Although several names like software developer Hal Finney, computer scientist Nick Szabo and even someone as prominently in mainstream focus as Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey have been linked to Bitcoin’s foundation, they have denied involvement.
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Except them, computer scientist Craig Wright has persistently maintained in the past that he was the mystery man in question. However, he was ultimately convicted last year for his repeated lies, with the High Court ruling he was not Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright was sentenced to 12 months in prison and suspended for two years. The man from Australia who lives in the UK was also ordered to stop claiming he invented cryptocurrency. In case he continues his “legal terrorism,” he would end up facing jail time, officials said at the time.
Numerous investigations have taken flight in the past to unmask the big Satoshi Nakamoto mystery. The so-identified Bitcoin boss was even the subject matter of Cullen Hoback’s HBO documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery. The film’s director confronted a person identified as Peter K Todd as the Bitcoin inventor, who also denied the same.
Although Nakamoto has remained one of the biggest puzzles of the crypto world, the person hiding behind the ‘Satoshi’ mask appeared to be in communication with others online until spring 2011, which is when they completely disappeared, as per the New York Post. Widespread reports suggested that Nakamoto was a 37-year-old man in Japan and came online during UK daylight hours. The elusive individual’s code showed they were an expert in C++.
Benjamin Wallace called the supposed Bitcoin boss an “elusive figure who might or might not exist” in his book “The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto” released in March 2025.
He further established Nakamoto was just the “no-name coder of an experimental money that was of interest mainly to a fringe community” in 2008. However, by 2022, Satoshi’s crypto creation had become the “the ninth most valuable asset in the world, just below Tesla and above Meta.”
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A few years ago, rapper Ye, aka Kanye West, was spotted wearing a baseball hat with Nakamoto’s name. Given the Bitcoin creator’s sketchy identity, the world’s first statue of a hooded Satoshi Nakamoto was erected in Graphisoft Park, Budapest, Hungary, to honour the person’s significant contributions to the IT world.
“Satoshi’s statue represents a general human figure, since we do not know the gender, race, age, height of the mysterious developer,” explains the official StatueOfSatoshi.com website. “Satoshi is wearing a hoodie, with the Bitcoin logo on its chest. The statue is made of bronze, the face is made of a special bronze-aluminium composite, thus every visitor can see their own face when looking at Satoshi.”
Hungarian sculptures Gergely Réka and Tamás Gilly brought the statue to life, representing the “we are all Satoshi” thought.
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