PANews reported on February 17 that according to Cointelegraph monitoring, American entrepreneur Jack Dorsey was once again speculated to be the man behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. A post on the X platform has once again sparked a debate about one of the biggest mysteries in the cryptocurrency world to date. Seán Murray, president and editor-in-chief of the financial news website deBanked, compiled a bunch of facts, figures and dates related to Bitcoin in a post on the X platform on February 15. He said these were also related to Dorsey, who has been one of the most powerful advocates of Bitcoin for more than a decade. However, some people believe that the evidence is not conclusive. Jack Dorsey denied that he was Satoshi Nakamoto in an interview with computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman in April 2020.
However, Murray said he thinks Dorsey is “probably” Satoshi, noting that Dorsey has shown cypherpunk tendencies since studying computer science at university in 1996, such as wearing an RSA shirt from Hashcash inventor Adam Back and later writing a manifesto in 2001 about how to make a mark on the world without leaving a trace. One of Murray’s most striking observations is that the first Bitcoin transaction took place on January 11, Dorsey’s mother’s birthday, while the last Bitcoin block allegedly mined by Nakamoto took place on his father’s birthday, March 5, 2010. Murray also said that Nakamoto allegedly registered the Bitcoin forum on November 19, Dorsey’s birthday. Meanwhile, Murray also claimed that the original Bitcoin source code documents are all timestamped to 4 a.m. — though it’s unclear in which time zone — which Murray claims is the time Dorsey once set on his Twitter profile. Nakamoto is said to have used a “brute force” method to create Bitcoin addresses, including one that begins with “jD2m,” which Murray claims stands for “Jack Dorsey 2 Mint,” a reference to Dorsey’s former home at 2 Mint Plaza in San Francisco. Dorsey has not confirmed this.
Murray also claims that Satoshi “accidentally” logged into Internet Relay Chat on January 10, 2009, showing a real IP address in California — the home of Twitter and where Dorsey spends most of his time. Murray says Satoshi told people on the Bitcoin forum on December 5, 2010 not to donate Bitcoin to WikiLeaks, while noting that nine days later, on December 14, Twitter received a “secret court order” requiring it to turn over all information about WikiLeaks. Dorsey, while not CEO of Twitter at the time, remained on the company’s board. Murray also claims that Satoshi last logged into the Bitcoin forum the day before, on December 13.
