{"id":33299,"date":"2020-12-13T23:27:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33299"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:09:04","slug":"a-decade-since-the-disappearance-of-bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/a-decade-since-the-disappearance-of-bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto\/","title":{"rendered":"A decade since the disappearance of Bitcoin&#8217;s creator Satoshi Nakamoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 12, 2010, the creator of Bitcoin, widely known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, posted his last entry on the BitcoinTalk forum. Since then he has never appeared online.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcointalk.org\/index.php?topic=2228.msg29479#msg29479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nakamoto&#8217;s last post<\/a> discussed the issue of DoS attacks on the Bitcoin network:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRegarding DoS, there is still a lot to be done, but before delving into more complex questions, and if necessary, I will do a quick build\u2026 this is version 0.3.19,\u201d wrote the creator of the first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119413\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/screenshot-bitcointalk-org-index-php-1607891011879.png\" alt=\"Ten years since the disappearance of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto\" width=\"1844\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/screenshot-bitcointalk-org-index-php-1607891011879.png 1844w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/screenshot-bitcointalk-org-index-php-1607891011879-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/screenshot-bitcointalk-org-index-php-1607891011879-1024x237.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/screenshot-bitcointalk-org-index-php-1607891011879-768x177.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/screenshot-bitcointalk-org-index-php-1607891011879-1536x355.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1844px) 100vw, 1844px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Satoshi noted that earlier he and Gavin Andresen had made clear that Bitcoin software could not be considered resistant to DoS attacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the improvements, but the ways to attack the network are still far more numerous than I can count,\u201d added Satoshi Nakamoto, describing further the technical details of the upgrade.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After stepping away from the project, Satoshi Nakamoto handed management of the project to Gavin Andresen, a former software developer for 3D graphics.<\/p>\n<p>Who is behind the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym remains unknown. It could be an individual developer or a group of people.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of theories about who exactly created Bitcoin, and not all withstand scrutiny. But one thing is certain: he has managed to preserve his anonymity exceptionally well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EN0urwoRg2\">\n<p>From a drug dealer to Elon Musk: how Satoshi Nakamoto managed to preserve anonymity after ten years of searching<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cFrom a drug dealer to Elon Musk: how Satoshi Nakamoto managed to preserve anonymity after ten years of searching\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/exclusive\/ot-narkotorgovtsa-do-ilona-maska-kak-satoshi-nakamoto-udalos-sohranit-anonimnost-posle-desyati-let-poiskov\/embed#?secret=13C2EGBXzr#?secret=EN0urwoRg2\" data-secret=\"EN0urwoRg2\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In November 2020, details of previously unknown <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/previously-unseen-letters-from-satoshi-nakamoto-add-another-puzzle-to-bitcoins-history\">correspondence between Satoshi and Hal Finney<\/a>, the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction, were revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 12, 2010, the creator of Bitcoin, known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, posted his final entry on the BitcoinTalk forum. Since then, he has never appeared online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,111],"class_list":["post-33299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-satoshi-nakamoto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"39","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33301,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33299\/revisions\/33301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}