Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym of a person or group of people who came up with Bitcoin concept. They are allegedly no longer involved with active development of the technology.

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Does the creator of BitCoin hold a 'master' private key?

If the creator of BitCoin, whoever he/she is, was the one that started the block-chain and with every cryptographic operation deriving from that initial key, would the network be under the complete ...
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What is the email of Satoshi Nakamoto?

I know the Satoshi Nakamoto profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3 and his public key: http://forum.bitcoin.org/Satoshi_Nakamoto.asc And I know maybe Satoshi is not a real ...
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How would we know the real Satoshi?

Should Satoshi decide to reveal his or her true identity, how can one know the person is the real creator of Bitcoin, rather than a person who hacked the forum login, email address or the like? In ...
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Where is the post where the original Bitcoin Whitepaper was first released? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: When and how did Bitcoin start? I understand Satoshi release the original whitepaper to some cryptography mailing list, in 2009 I believe. Can anyone point me to that ...
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When and how did Bitcoin start?

Exactly when was the first block mined and the first bitcoins generated? How many people knew about the project at this point? Had the project been publicly announced before the first block was mined ...
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What was the last life sign of Satoshi Nakamoto [closed]

If heard that the name may even a pseudonym and that very less is known about the initiator of bitcoin. Also it seems that he has stopped working on the main client. When was his last verifiable ...
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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? I have heard about him and read his paper. Why is he no-longer publicly involved in Bitcoin?
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What is a 'Satoshi'?

I am aware that Satoshi Nakamoto is the author of the paper that originated Bitcoin and the creator of the original bitcoin client. However, I often hear the term Satoshi as if it was a monetary unit. ...