Satoshi Nakamoto

About

I’m Satoshi Nakamoto—ghostwriter of the most lucrative 9-page PDF in human history and proud caretaker of a 21-million-unit pet rock named “Bitcoin.” I believe sound money should be as open-source as oxygen and as permissionless as a cat on a keyboard. By day, I prototype peer-to-peer protocols; by night, I vanish before the press cycle starts. Fun fact: my last recorded “Out of Office” reply has aged into a quasi-religious artifact on Crypto-Twitter.

Experience

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  Creator (“Anonymous Founder & CEO”)

  Bitcoin Open-Source Project

  2007 - Present · 19 yrs 1 mo

  Distributed Ledger, Planet Earth

  I wrote the Bitcoin whitepaper, bootstrapped the network, and then Irish-exited my own party • Authored a 9-page paper that has delivered an estimated 9,000,000% ROI to early adopters • Shipped version 0.1 of Bitcoin Core in 6 days, achieving 99.98% uptime across 15+ years • Scaled network from 0 to >100M users with $0 paid marketing—just vibes and SHA-256

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  Lead Developer (Volunteer)

  Bitcoin Core

  2009 - Dec 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

  Remote

  Maintained early codebase while navigating “should number have commas?” debates • Merged 412 pull requests, raising code-coverage from 0% to 87% and slashing block-sync time 55% • Implemented the 21M hard cap and watched economists do the five stages of grief live on IRC

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  Contributor

  Cypherpunks Mailing List

  2005 - Dec 2008 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  Listserv, The Internet

  Explored privacy-tech rabbit holes at ~128-bit depth • Drafted 17 posts that sparked 4,000+ responses, driving a 2,300% YoY surge in the word “trustless” • Helped incubate ideas later powering $2T+ in decentralized market cap

Education

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  Cypherpunks Mailing List (Unofficial Alma Mater)

  DIY M.S. in Applied Cryptography

  2005 - Dec 2008 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Peer-reviewed 37 white-papers before breakfast • Graduated with 0 student-loan satoshis

Honors & awards

• Zero-Hour Glassdoor Review (★★★★★)

  Bitcoin Miners Everywhere

  Issued 2009

  “Great founder—left before middle management could form.” — @Hal Finney

• ‘Most Influential (Yet Absent) CTO’

  Blockchain Insider Power List

  Issued 2021

  First honoree to decline an award by simply not existing in public.