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A new theory on Reddit suggests a collective identity behind the enigmatic Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.
In a recent post on Reddit, archived here, user christofooch said that the theory originates from a Crypto ‘98 event. American software developer Hal Finney, along with a certain Satoshi Hada and a Toshiaki Tanaka, attended the event, hinting at a connection that could unravel the mystery surrounding Bitcoin’s origin.
The post starts with a video featuring Hal Finney at the Crypto 98 event. “I found the event program info page and found that there was a man there named Satoshi Hada and Toshiaki Tanaka,” the Reddit user wrote, with both names appearing as authors on ‘On the Existence of 3-Round Zero-Knowledge Protocols’ from the event.
Researching those names also brought a third piece of the puzzle together, an IBM paper from 2007 with the same two authors, along with Naohiko Uramoto, a research paper discussing public and private keys — a foundational concept in blockchain technology.
So, bringing in Hal Finney, one of the first Bitcoin contributors and known to have received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto, and then three academics who were pulling together the strands of the concepts that brought Bitcoin to life.
Whose names combined are Satoshi Hada, Toshiaki Tanaka, and Naohiko Uramoto.