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Torvalds is not Bitcoin inventor "Satoshi Nakamoto"-the truth of the topic that has resurfaced in part

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トーバルズ氏はビットコイン発明者

Torvalds is not Bitcoin inventor "Satoshi Nakamoto"-an image of the truth of the topic that has resurfaced in part

One of the big mysteries in the technology industry is, "Who is the mysterious person who invented Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto?" It seems that some people recently thought that Linus Torvalds claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin, the world's most popular cryptocurrency. That's Linux, the world's most popular operating system, and Linus Torvalds, who developed the most popular development tool, the Git Distributed Version Control (DVC) system. He is said to be the mysterious person Satoshi Nakamoto. The story started with BeInCrypto, a cryptocurrency news site. One writer seems to argue that Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, claims to be the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. Is this a joke or is it true? I did. Behind this discussion is Torvalds' modification of a line in the Linux kernel on GitHub's Linux kernel repository. The change was "Name = I am Satoshi". Many people jumped at this and it became news here and there. The big question, "Is he Satoshi? Is it different?" Was discussed on Twitter, Reddit, and Y Combinator. No one cares about that in the late 2000s. Certainly, there is a paper in the name of Satoshi Nakamoto called "Bitcoin: Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", but that doesn't mean that. I think there were many papers that had no place to reach by then. However, Nakamoto later released his first Bitcoin program, version 0.1, on the early open source codesite SourceForge, launching a network with block number 0, the Genesis block of Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency competition began from there, and the competition is still ongoing. However, it remains unknown who Satoshi Nakamoto was at that time. It seems that Nakamoto has been less actively involved in Bitcoin since mid-2010, leaving no clue as to his identity. Since then, he has disappeared from the internet. There have been many moves to find out Mr. Nakamoto's identity. For example, in 2014 Newsweek magazine wrote in a "The Purloined Letter" (Edgar Allan Poe's novel) -style narrative that Satoshi Nakamoto is a gentle Japanese man named Satoshi Nakamoto who lives in California. Insisted in the article and became a hot topic. Real-life Nakamoto has denied the article and is no longer considered a leading candidate. Australian computer scientist Craig Wright once claimed to be Nakamoto, but he hasn't been able to show evidence of controlling the original Bitcoin.

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