"I think the creator of BTC has something important to say?"
After five years of silence, the X account purportedly belonging to Bitcoin (BTC) founder Satoshi Nakamoto resurfaced on October 2, 2023 after the prominent digital asset was suddenly revealed.
Through the post, Nakamoto has promised to research the aspects still not clearly disclosed in the BTC whitepaper in the coming months.
Not only that, Nakamoto who also said that now is the time to extrapolate seemingly unclear ideas has caused his post to record over one million views in less than 24 hours.
In the past 15 years, Nakamoto who released the BTC whitepaper explained that the digital asset was designed as a completely new electronic cash system that is peer-to-peer (P2P) without third parties.
Bitcoin is a predicate machine. Over the following months, we shall explore different aspects that were not explicitly contained within the white paper. These aspects are all parts of bitcoin, and are important. Some of these ideas were touched upon in the early years; now is…
— Satoshi Nakamoto (@satoshi) October 2, 2023
BTC is an alternative to the mint-based model* used in traditional digital payment systems, so many believe that the code for the digital asset was written before the whitepaper existed.
*Knows all transactions and decides which one arrives first
It is true that Nakamoto's true identity remains unknown to this day, but many people such as Australian computer scientist Craig Wright have repeatedly claimed that he is the creator of BTC.
However, crypto lawyer John E. Deaton has questioned the claim as Wright was too eager to be the true creator of BTC, but Nakamoto's identity is still pending at this time.
