Jack Dorsey may be the creator of bitcoin

Journalist Sean Murray has hypothesized that Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Block, may be the real Сатоші Накамото" href="https://noworries.news/biography/satoshi-nakamoto/" data-bio-id="4232">Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of bitcoin BTC $96,269.42 Bitcoin -0.24% Market capitalization $1.91 trillion VOL. 24 hours $1.67 billion . He collected a number of coincidences that, in his opinion, support this theory.

Murray pointed out that Dorsey had been interested in encryption since his youth, studied in a cryptographic environment, and wrote about his security experiments as early as 2003. Interestingly, the source code of the flagship cryptocurrency contains time stamps that coincide with his early morning work habits. The researcher also emphasizes that the code of the first cryptocurrency contains a nautical proverb, and Dorsey’s Twitter profile in 2007−2009 had the inscription «sailor».

Another series of coincidences relates to dates. The first bitcoin transaction took place on Dorsey’s mother’s birthday, and the creation of the Bitcoin forum coincided with the entrepreneur’s birthday. The last time Satoshi mined was on his father’s birthday.

When the creator of Bitcoin wrote in 2010 that cryptocurrency should not be donated to WikiLeaks, Twitter received a court request for information about the organization. The next day, Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared from the network. After 2011, he sent his last message, and around the same time Dorsey became the chairman of Twitter, while remaining CEO of Square.

Nevertheless, skeptics from BitMEX Research believe that these coincidences are not proof. At the same time, in 2020, journalist Lex Friedman directly asked Dorsey if he was Satoshi. The businessman evaded the question, saying that even if it were true, he would not admit it. This only fueled interest in Dorsey’s possible connection to the bitcoin legend.