Satoshi Nakamoto
Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym of the unknown person or group who created Bitcoin, publishing the white paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" in 2008 and launching the Bitcoin network in January 2009. Nakamoto collaborated with other developers on the software until late 2010, then handed over control of the source code repository to Gavin Andresen and ceased all public communication by April 2011. The true identity behind the pseudonym has never been verified, despite numerous claims and investigations, and Nakamoto's estimated Bitcoin holdings have remained untouched since mid-2009.
“Bitcoin, when it started, was presumably one or some set of people, whoever Satoshi was. And by definition, when something starts, it's centralized.”
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