Elon Musk is once again called the father of bitcoin

Former SpaceX intern Sahil Gupta believes that Elon Musk is the creator of bitcoin, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. The theory, of course, is not new.

Gupta stated: «A few years ago, I wondered if Musk could write the source code for bitcoin. Then I realized that he actually did. Musk wrote software for his first companies Zip2 and X.com, which literally specialized in peer-to-peer payments. The source code of X.com was written in C and described as „monolithic“. That’s what happened with bitcoin.»

Gupta says that while there is no direct evidence that Musk is Satoshi, there is a flurry of indirect evidence. For example, when Gupta was an intern at SpaceX, he observed Musk’s linguistic habits and found similarities with the way Nakamoto writes.

In turn, Musk, who seems to have decided to go into the perfume business to have the funds to buy Twitter, claimed a few years ago that he was not Satoshi.

Not true. A friend sent me part of a BTC a few years ago, but I don’t know where it is.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2017

It should not be forgotten that the self-proclaimed creator of the flagship crypto lives in Australia and has been bothering the crypto community for years. Scientist Craig Wright has repeatedly emphasized that it was he who created bitcoin. In September, during a court hearing, Wright said that he had destroyed the disk with the keys to Satoshi Nakamoto 's wallet, the world’s first cryptocurrency wallet, by himself. The pseudo-creator of bitcoin «confessed» that he had trampled on the hard drive with the keys to Satoshi’s wallet. «If I hadn’t done it, people would have forced me to do things I didn’t want to do,» Wright allegedly explained his actions in a cryptic manner.

In early August, Craig Wright was accused of plagiarizing a scientific dissertation. He also won a lawsuit against a blogger who was conducting defamatory activities against an Australian scientist. And in early May, Craig Wright Coinbase-ta-kraken-u-torgivli-falshyvym-bitkoyinom/" data-wpel-link="internal">filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Kraken for trading «fake bitcoin.»