According to Eric Balchunas, a programmer from California who died in 2014 was hiding under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
Bloomberg chief analyst Eric Balchunas suggested on Twitter who was hiding behind the pseudonym of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Balchunas concluded that in fact it was the programmer Hal Finney.
In the crypto community, he is known as one of the first bitcoin supporters who participated in the development of the cryptocurrency, and also conducted the first bitcoin transaction with Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009.
I’m out of my element here but based on everything I’ve seen/read Hal = Satoshi. https://t.co/vc7mjZU1kR
— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) August 15, 2021
Finney died in 2014 at the age of 58 due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The chief analyst at Bloomberg gained confidence that Finney is the creator of bitcoin after reading a message on the forum that the programmer sent back in 1993.
In it, Finney described the idea of cryptocurrency trading cards, the principle of which is similar to the technology of non–fungible tokens (NFT).
In mid-April, it became known that the fortune of the creator of bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto, who, according to various estimates, owns from 750 thousand to 1.1 million BTC, exceeded $ 61 billion.
