Imagine you had a very rich uncle who left you a huge fortune, let’s say to the tune of 9 figures in US dollars. You would be ecstatic right? Now imagine if someone had a similar fortune stashed in Bitcoin but was never heard from again. It would be a tragedy of epic proportions.
Satoshi Nakamoto , the enigmatic father of BitcoinCT r: 8 has disappeared and his disappearance is an elephant in the room. His last words to the world being “I’ve moved on to other things…”.
Is Nakamoto San still alive?
Is he Japanese?
Why can’t he spend his massive fortune?
Let us try to deconstruct one of the most mysterious people in the world. What’s in a name?
If we were to judge a book by the cover, and take his word for what it is, he is a Japanese man.
So what about the name Satoshi Nakamoto, which is spelt 中本哲史 (Nakamoto Satoshi) in Japanese? We talked with Takaaki Kagawa, BA Literature (Waseda University, Tokyo) and he had this to say about the name our father of Bitcoin has chosen for himself: “First of all, it sounds like a fairly valid Japanese name. Satoshi is a common male name, and I had a couple of classmates called Satoshi even though the Japanese spellings were different. Nakamoto is a surname which is not everywhere, but it is not uncommon. According to Myoji-Yurai (browsed on the 27th of April, 2016), there are approx. 39,200 people with this surname spelt in this particular way in Japanese.” If indeed Satoshi Nakamoto spells Nakamoto in this particular manner then and is a Japanese living in Japan then we can narrow down the number of people to a smaller pool.If we assume that he told the truth about his age, then we have even a smaller […]
