Satoshi Nakamoto

News

Someone Just Proposed Cloning and Reselling Satoshi's Bitcoin Stash

A Bitcoin developer wants to fork the chain in August, copy Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet history onto a new network, and hand 500,000 of those coins to people who pay for them now. Jameson Lopp called it outrage marketing. Sztorc says it's a matter of life or death for Bitcoin.

By Ramy Morton
News

Hoskinson Says BIP-361 Is a Hard Fork That Would Strand 1.7M BTC

The Cardano founder argues Bitcoin's quantum fix mislabels itself as a soft fork while leaving pre-2013 wallets, including Satoshi's, unrecoverable. Over 34% of Bitcoin's circulating supply carries exposed public keys vulnerable to quantum attack, according to on-chain data cited in the critique.

By Ramy Morton
Learn

Bitcoin Halving History: How Each Cycle Affected Price

Bitcoin has gone through four halvings since 2012. Each one cut miner rewards in half and reshaped the market. The pattern of diminishing returns is now clearer than ever, with the 2024 cycle delivering the weakest post-halving gains on record.

By Jan Whitfield
Altcoins

What Are Altcoins? Everything Beyond Bitcoin

Bitcoin started it all. But the 18,000 coins that followed are where most of the innovation — and most of the risk — lives. Altcoins are not simply Bitcoin alternatives. They are an entire ecosystem of technologies, financial instruments, and experiments — some solving real problems, others riding pure speculation. Understanding the difference is the most important skill a crypto investor can develop.

By Jan Whitfield
Analysis

Your Bitcoin Is Probably Safe. Satoshi's 1.1 Million BTC Is Not.

Google's quantum paper changed the timeline. 6.9 million BTC are already exposed. And the one problem nobody can solve is the one belonging to someone who has been silent for 15 years. Developers have proposals. They cover almost everything. Satoshi's coins are the exception that none of them can fix.

By Jan Whitfield

Satoshi Nakamoto Overview

Satoshi Nakamoto represents the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin and the foundation of decentralized digital money — spanning the Bitcoin whitepaper, peer-to-peer electronic cash system, proof-of-work consensus, genesis block, early Bitcoin development, cryptographic design, decentralization principles, and the broader philosophical foundation of financial sovereignty that continues to shape the evolution of modern blockchain-based financial systems, analyzed with historical context, technical clarity, and a data-driven perspective.