Who Is Satoshi With Benjamin Wallace
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4.7 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:57.3 | Happy birthday, Satoshi Nakamoto. |
| 1:02.6 | I'm joined by my colleague CoinDisk reporter Tom Carreras on this very special day. For those who don't know, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, claimed their birthday was April 5, 1975 when registering a username with the |
| 1:13.6 | P2P Foundation. That would make it a big milestone for a fake birthday, the Big 50. |
| 1:21.6 | Sadoci also claimed he lived in Japan, but that's also likely and true. We have no idea, really. |
| 1:28.6 | But there is a man who tried to uncover this mystery in a book called The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto. |
| 1:36.0 | That man is author Benjamin Wallace, and he joins us now. |
| 1:40.6 | Ben, welcome to the show. |
| 1:43.6 | Thanks for having me. All right. So for context, Ben, you were the |
| 1:48.1 | first mainstream journalist to attempt to unmask Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2011 for Wired. And back |
| 1:55.7 | then, you didn't have an answer with, and with this book, you're not even close any closer to finding the |
| 2:02.6 | the real identity of sotoshi yacomoto but it seems a really desperate task because not only |
| 2:08.5 | so many have tried and failed but because the bitcoin community advises against it and |
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