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(Image credit: Fekist on Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Despite the colossal influence of cryptocurrencies on commerce, computing, and even politics, the true identity of the presumed pseudonymous Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, remains a mystery in 2025. Making things trickier for identity sleuths, this individual (or perhaps the name represents a group?) disappeared without a trace on this day in 2010, that’s exactly 15 years ago.
On this day 15 years ago, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ posted a final public message, then disappeared. The engineer’s true identity remains the greatest mystery of the internet. pic.twitter.com/yEbQIgRZhM December 12, 2025
Though the last public message from the BTC founder was about technical matters, an email that appears to be from Nakamoto's account was sent to a fellow Bitcoin enthusiast, Mike Hearn, in April 2011. It began with an explanation for absence, of sorts, with the first line reading "I've moved onto other things."
Benjamin Wallace, the author of The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius behind Crypto, wrote earlier this year that the BTC creator’s defining moment was the publication of an article on November 1, 2008.
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Key considerations
- Investor positioning can change fast
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-disappeared-on-this-day-15-years-ago-leaving-a-final-public-message-ive-moved-on-to-other-things-true-identity-of-satoshi-nakamoto-entity-remains-unknown#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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