Satoshi Nakamoto (born 5 April 1975) is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation. As part of the implementation, Nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database.[6Nakamoto was active in the development of bitcoin up until December 2010. There has been widespread speculation about Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity, with a variety of peop...