Bitcoin … Becomes a Teenager

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Today is the 13th anniversary of a machine that showed the world a new way of transacting:

and which outlined a paper which is still relevant to this day [here]:

Who was Satoshi?

In 2020, there was more light shed on Satoshi with an analysis around the Wayback Machine on Bitcointalk posts, emails, code commits, and related data [here]:

This included 742 posts over 206 days, and which ended on 13 Dec 2010:

By analysing the times of the activity we can see that Satoshi may have been sleeping from 4am to 2pm (UK time). If we take 4pm UK time as the time he may have started his work (approx 9am), there may be a…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.