Satoshi Nakamoto<\/strong> is the pseudonym of the person or group of people who, from 2009 to 2010, designed and created Bitcoin<\/strong>, and the Bitcoin-Qt software<\/strong> (now Bitcoin Core). He is also the founder of bitcoin.org<\/a> and the bitcointalk forum<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n There is no trace of his identity before the creation of Bitcoin. On his profile, Nakamoto claimed to be a 37-year-old Japanese, but this information is questionable if one considers the quality of his English, very British, and the lack of documents in Japanese on Bitcoin at that time.<\/span><\/p>\n Nakamoto said he has been working on Bitcoin since 2007. In 2008, he reserves the domain name bitcoin.org and then publishes a document on a mailing list describing his invention. In 2009, he released the first version of Bitcoin-QT software and created the first units of the currency.<\/span><\/p>\n Satoshi posts his latest message on the bitcointalk forum he created on December 12, 2010. Just before he leaves, he sets up Gavin Andresen as his successor by giving him access to the SourceForge Bitcoin project and a copy of the alert key. which helps prevent the network of important events by spreading a message to all Bitcoin customers.<\/span><\/p>\n In May 2011, he is last contacting other Bitcoin contributors, including Martti Malmi, to whom he writes: “I have moved on and I will probably not be here in the future. “<\/span><\/p>\n For a long time, Satoshi Nakamoto was the only miner in activity. According to an analysis by Sergio Lerner, his fortune would be close to a million bitcoins.<\/span><\/p>\n