Satoshi Nakamoto might have been identified, an entrepreneur states
Unlike Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, the inventor of Bitcoin is anonymous. Under the nickname “Satoshi Nakamoto”, he/she posts on different sites and communicates via email, but after all these years the public does not even know the face of the one who created the most popular cryptocurrency.
The U.S. National Security Agency might already know the answer, writes the businessman and market analyst Alexander Muse in one of his latest posts on Medium. His sources tell that the NSA can work with big data acquired through its infamous PRISM and MUSCULAR programs that allow the law enforcement to have a direct access to millions of email accounts across the globe and to the data circulating in the data centers of Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and Facebook.
“And how are these access initiatives supposed to help find one person?” – one might ask. The question is justified. It appears that the NSA has invented a method to analyze one’s texts, build a unique “fingerprint” ID in the 50-dimensional space (yes, this sounds too sci-fi even for this digital era we live in). Each Satoshi Nakamoto’s text and message was composed into 5,000-word chunks and for each this piece the unique 50-number code was made. All these codes were then placed into a 50-dimensional space and through the use of the principal components analysis, somehow “flattened into a plane”. Thus the “fingerprint” of the Bitcoin creator was built.
It is by that reference the NSA then checked the vast amounts of confidential data they have access to. The whole procedure started under the presidency of Barack Obama, Mr. Muse writes, and it should be added that there is no reason to believe that Donald Trump, who is fond of law enforcement, security and defense, has suspended anything related to these topics.
This stylometry search lasted approximately a month and resulted in a positive match. According to the info acquired by Alexander Muse in a conversation, the previous rumors that Satoshi Nakamoto is actually a group of people might be true, so it’s not “he” or “she”, but “they” instead.
Image courtesy of A. Muse’s blog
The reason for the whole search is not because, as some believe, the law enforcement wants to secure and contain things just because it likes to do so, but rather due to suspicions that the creator of this cryptocurrency might be working for the rival states – Russia or China and weaponize this powerful financial tool one day.
The tracking technology described in the post sounds executable, but while the NSA might have solved one of the biggest mysteries in the financial sphere, it is certainly not going to share this information with everyone. However, this gives hope that some day the public will get to know the precise identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, too.