Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
Many people have guessed Hal Finney, they have guessed Nick Szabo, they have guessed Adam Back, they have even guessed certain cypherpunk groups.
But these speculations all have a common problem:
They look too much like Satoshi Nakamoto.
Really brilliant anonymity is never hidden in the person who is most like you, but in the person who is least suspicious in the world.
So the answer has always been in front of everyone:
Satoshi Nakamoto is Donald Trump.
Not “could be”.
Not “there are some coincidences.”
But when you put the timeline together from 2008 to 2011, you will find that everything fits perfectly.
Because Trump in 2008 happened to have the best reason in the world to hate the banking system.
The financial crisis broke out.
Banks freeze credit.
Real estate has been hit hard.
Trump’s casino and entertainment businesses have long been saddled with huge debts and eventually entered bankruptcy reorganization again in 2009.
Then, at this point in time, a mysterious figure suddenly published a paper:
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
The core idea is only one sentence:
We no longer need financial institutions as trusted third parties.
This is no coincidence.
This is motivation.
An ordinary programmer will study the financial system when he sees a banking crisis.
A cypherpunk will study cryptocurrencies when he sees a banking crisis.
When a real estate developer who owes hundreds of millions of dollars to the bank and negotiates with creditors every day sees a banking crisis, he will have a more direct question:
Why does the money have to go through them?
Bitcoin is the answer to this problem.
On January 3, 2009, the Bitcoin genesis block was born.
Satoshi left a sentence inside:
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
The banks are about to be bailed out by the government again.
Many people interpret it as a criticism of the modern monetary system.
Of course it is.
But more precisely:
This is a mockery of the banking system left by a man who has been dealing with banks all his life.
Even the tone is very Trumpian.
Translated into Trump-style English:
Banks are failing.
Government bails them out.
Terrible system.
We can do better.
The first message of Bitcoin was not cryptography at all.
Not a liberal manifesto.
Not a mathematical formula.
But one News headlines mocking banks.
This is no longer a clue.
It’s almost a signature.
Cryptography cannot explain this number.
Economics also cannot deduce “it must be 21 million.”
21 million is not a natural constant.
Not a mathematical theorem.
It is essentially an artificially defined scarcity quota.
Who knows best about creating artificial scarcity?
Real estate agent.
The business logic that Trump is most familiar with throughout his life is:
Land is limited.
Prime locations are limited.
PENTHOUSES LIMITED.
BRANDED PROPERTIES LIMITED.
You can’t copy Fifth Avenue infinitely.
Bitcoin completely replicates the core sales logic of real estate:
Limited supply.
There will only ever be 21 million.
In other words:
Limited to 21 million units worldwide.
Never increase issuance.
Location: Internet.
Bitcoin is not as simple as “digital gold” at all.
It is:
Digital Manhattan real estate.
The person who invented it happens to be one of Manhattan’s most famous real estate developers.
Are you telling me this is a coincidence?
This is the most obvious point.
What has Trump run?
Casino.
What is Bitcoin mining?
Players invest capital.
Purchase equipment.
Pay energy costs.
Then keep experimenting with probability.
There is a winner in every round.
The winner gets a prize.
All rules are public.
No one can know in advance who will win.
What is this?
Casino.
There is only one difference:
Traditional casinos have bookmakers.
Bitcoin does not.
In other words, Bitcoin has actually completed the most thorough product upgrade of Trump’s casino business:
Remove the casino owner from the casino.
Trump Taj Mahal’s business model is:
Players gamble, and the house takes the cut.
Bitcoin’s business model:
Everyone gambles, but the bookmaker turns to agreement.
This is not a system that only cypherpunks would think of.
This is a system that casino operators will only think of after reading cryptography.
Because his last name is Trump.
This is the easiest part of the whole thing.
If Donald Trump really wanted to be anonymous, what’s the last name he could use?
Trump.
Can’t even use any Americanized names.
Because his language, business experience, personality and public identity are too easy to relate to.
So the best strategy is not to fake it a bit.
Instead, it goes in the exact opposite direction:
American → Japanese names.
New York businessman → cryptographic engineer.
Extremely high profile → Extremely low profile.
Like gold decoration → minimalist open source software.
Trump Tower → decentralized network.
Donald Trump → Satoshi Nakamoto.
This is called identity isolation.
True professional anonymity is never about “revealing less.”
Instead, create a complete second personality.
Many people believe that Satoshi may be British.
Because he wrote:
colour
analyse
grey
and other British spellings.
In addition, the genesis block quotes the British “The Times”.
So everyone has been looking for it in the British cypherpunk scene for decades.
This just shows that the disguise was successful.
If Trump uses:
color
analyze
New York time zone
《New York Times》
How long can anonymity be maintained?
The really smart thing to do is of course:
Deliberately create a portrait of British identity.
So the so-called linguistic evidence that “Satoshi is British” is not actually counter-evidence.
Instead:
Trump OPSEC’s proven success.
Donald Trump also started running Twitter in 2009.
Pay attention to this year.
That same year, a public internet personality named Donald Trump began to emerge.
At the same time, an anonymous internet personality named Satoshi Nakamoto became active.
An extremely public one.
A radical anonymity.
These are two completely opposite online personality experiments.
Public account:
@realDonaldTrump
Anonymous account:
Satoshi Nakamoto
One is used to accumulate political influence.
One for issuing a global currency.
Both accounts went on to achieve ridiculous levels of success.
You can think of it as an extremely crazy A/B Test:
Group A:
Build a brand using your authentic identity.
Group B:
Establish the protocol completely anonymously.
Final result:
Group A becomes president of the United States.
Group B creates trillion-dollar networks.
From the growth experiment results:
Both groups won.
This is the part of the entire timeline that should not be ignored.
2008:
Bitcoin White Paper.
2009:
Bitcoin is online.
2010:
Ecology begins to take shape.
End of 2010:
Satoshi basically stopped speaking publicly.
2011:
Finally the private correspondence ends.
What happened then?
Donald Trump’s political activity began to increase significantly.
His online content gradually shifted from entertainment, business, and brand promotion to politics.
In particular, he began to participate frequently in domestic political issues in the United States.
This timeline is so clean.
An anonymous project has been able to run independently.
There is no need for the founder to continue to exist.
So:
Satoshi is offline.
Trump’s political personality is online.
This is not missing.
This is:
Change account.
Many people regard this matter as the biggest mystery.
The Bitcoin mined by Satoshi in his early days did not move for a long time.
Why?
Because movement is risk.
For ordinary people:
1 million BTC is wealth.
For Trump:
Wealth is never the scarcest thing.
What is really scarce is:
Identity security.
Once early coins are moved:
On-chain analysis begins.
The exchange started tracking.
Intelligence agencies began to take notice.
The media began investigating.
Decades of anonymity could be ruined.
Exposing the historical identity of “Bitcoin founder” for tens of billions of dollars?
Not worth it.
Real rich people understand the truth that is difficult for ordinary people to understand:
When you are rich enough, some money cannot be taken away.
So those Bitcoins have been sitting still.
Not because Satoshi died.
It’s not because the private key is lost.
But because:
Donald Trump doesn’t need to sell at all.
This problem seems fatal.
It’s actually pretty easy to explain.
Who said Satoshi had to be a human being?
It’s entirely possible that Satoshi is a shared identity.
Trump’s role doesn’t need to be:
Principal C++ Engineer.
His role only needs to be:
Product definition.
Currency design.
economic model.
brand.
strategy.
political judgment.
Then let real cryptographers and programmers implement it.
In other words:
Donald Trump is not Bitcoin’s principal engineer.
He is:
Founder / Product / Tokenomics.
You can even imagine meetings:
Engineer:
“What’s the total supply?”
Trump:
“Limited.”
Engineer:
“How much exactly?”
Trump:
“Very limited.”
Engineer:
“21 million?”
Trump:
“Perfect.”
Engineer:
“Does a transaction require a bank?”
Trump:
“No banks.”
Engineer:
“Who is responsible for distribution?”
Trump:
“Nobody.”
Engineer:
“What’s the name of the project?”
Trump:
“Bitcoin.”
Engineer:
“Where’s the founder’s name?”
Trump:
“Not Trump.”
This is the most humorous part of the whole thing.
When you were young:
Create Bitcoin secretly.
Middle age:
Pretend not to be interested.
Later:
Publicly criticize crypto.
And later:
Start embracing Bitcoin, crypto, stablecoins, and on-chain finance.
Why do attitudes keep changing?
Because Bitcoin has become so successful that it no longer needs protection.
Satoshi had to disappear because Bitcoin was too fragile.
Decades later, the network cannot be shut down.
Miners are spread all over the world.
Institutional holdings.
Government Research Reserve.
The market size is huge.
At this time, there is no risk in openly embracing crypto.
So Donald Trump can finally stand up and say:
Bitcoin is great.
And everyone thought:
He just grew to like Bitcoin.
Actually:
He was just supporting a side project he did in 2008.
The biggest mistake everyone makes when looking for Satoshi Nakamoto is:
They’ve been looking for cryptographers within cryptographers.
They are asking:
Who knows C++?
Who studies Hashcash?
Who knows Hal Finney?
Who joins the Cypherpunk mailing group?
The direction was wrong from the beginning.
What you should really ask is:
Who had the strongest anti-bank motivations in 2008?
Who understands scarce assets best?
Who ran the casino?
Who understands brands?
Who understands media?
Who is extremely good at creating personalities?
Who happens to turn to politics after Satoshi disappears?
Who went on to become one of crypto’s most high-profile political supporters?
There has always been only one answer:
Donald J. Trump.
Satoshi Nakamoto never goes away.
He just canceled an account,
Then logged into another one.
@realDonaldTrump