Nakamoto continued to contribute to his Bitcoin software release with other developers until contact with his team and the community gradually began to fade in mid-2010. Near this time, he handed over control of the source code repository and alert key functions of the software to Gavin Andresen.[citation needed] Also around this same time, he handed over control of the Bitcoin.org domain and several other domains to various prominent members of the Bitcoin community.
Nakamoto is believed to be in possession of roughly one million bitcoins. At one point in December 2013, this was the equivalent of 1.1 billion US dollars. [6]
Identity
There are no records of Nakamoto's identity or identities prior to the creation of Bitcoin. Satoshi is a male, Japanese name, whose meaning is variously given as "wise", "clear-thinking", "quick-witted"[7][8] or "intelligent history", i.e. a person with intelligent ancestors.[9] "Nakamoto"(中本) is a Japanese family name.
On his P2P Foundation profile, Nakamoto claimed to be an individual male at the age of 37 and of Japanese origin, which was met with great skepticism due to his use of English and his Bitcoin software not being documented nor labelled in Japanese.[10]
The first release of his original Bitcoin software is speculated to be of a collaborative effort, leading some to claim that Satoshi Nakamoto was a collective pseudonym for a group of people.[11]
British English spelling in both source code comments and forum postings work implies Nakamoto, or at least one individual in the consortium claiming to be him, may be of Commonwealth origin.[1][12] One of his postings used the Anglicism "Bloody hard".[13] Bloody is an expletive attributive that is commonly used in Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and by Anglophones from the Indian subcontinent. However, it is seldom heard in North America outside of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Many articles have been written about possible identities of Nakamoto. Here is a list of the notable possibilities
In a 2011 article in the New Yorker, Joshua Davis claimed to have narrowed down the identity of Nakamoto to a number of possible individuals, including the Finnish economic sociologist Dr Vili Lehdonvirta and Irish student Michael Clear, then a graduate student in cryptography at Trinity College Dublin.[14] Clear strongly denies he is Nakamoto,[15] as does Lehdonvirta.[16]
In October 2011, investigative journalist Adam Penenberg cited circumstantial evidence that identified Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry.[17] This included a patent application they filed in 2008.[18] All three men denied being Nakamoto when contacted by Penenberg.[17]
Max Keiser of Keiser Report on RT is rumored to be Nakamoto.[19]
In May 2013, Ted Nelson speculated that Nakamoto is really Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki.[20] Later, an article was published in The Age newspaper, in which it was claimed that Mochizuki has denied these speculations.[21]
Jed McCaleb is claimed by some to be Nakamoto.[22] McCaleb is the creator of Overnet, the eDonkey2000 file-sharing application and the founder of Mt.Gox Bitcoin exchange. Once a strong supporter of Bitcoin, McCaleb later co-founded the company Ripple Labs, to develop another digital currency, Ripple.[23] McCaleb is known to be a Japanophile, who resided in that country.[16]
In 2013, two Israeli mathematicians, Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir, published a paper claiming a link between Nakamoto and Ross William Ulbricht, alleged by the FBI to be the owner of the Silk Road online black market. The two based their suspicion on an analysis of the network of Bitcoin transactions,[24] but later retracted their claim.[25]
In December 2013, Nick Szabo was implicated using reverse textual analysis. Nick Szabo is also a decentralized currency enthusiast and published a paper on "bit gold"
Referensi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
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