Satoshi Nakamoto was a name I created back in 2009. I was real young at that time starting college. I wanted to keep myself identity private because I knew ppl wouldn't listen to a young African American male with a vision. Everything that you read in this thread is true whether you decide to believe it or not. I chose to create "Bitcoin" because I wanted to buy things online that I could not afford like Jordans. Niketalk, a popular forum in the black community, was very famous for exclusive Jordans at the time. And I wanted a few pairs from the marketplace but being a college kid I had no money. So I came up with a idea of online currency which eventually became the Bitcoin project. I did some research and I found "Digicash" the original cryptocurrency and I used its coding to create Bitcoin. I was a novice at coding at that time and my only experience with coding was changing my Myspace page so I decided to ask for help. I private messaged a few ppl and a guy named Hal Finney was eager to help me change the software of Digicash. I decided to change the name because I wanted Bitcoin to be original, different from Digicash because Digicash failed to become accepted online cash. "Bit" was inspired by Bitcomet and Bittorrent because I was an active torrent user for downloads. And I changed the name from Bitcash to Bitcoin bcuz the goal was to create peer to peer transactions. At that time I played a lot of online games and their form of in game currency was coins not cash. So that how the Bitcoin name got created. Everything involving Bitcoin was free bcuz I had no money to pay for stuff so we created Bitcoin with time value aka mining. As long as you had a computer you could create a coin and use it to buy stuff online. Bitcoin was in early early stages at that time so it had literally no value. My computer was horrible so I could only do a few coins at a time leaving my computer running. I sent 10 coins to Hal which became the first transaction ever. Remember the coins had no value at the time. Me and Hal talked a lot under private messages so it was only natural that I sent him the first coins I made. After then I knew Bitcoin could be alternative way of buying and selling stuff online just like my video games I play. Then Bitcoin got the attention of Wikileaks. Wikileaks was willing to donate us real money for our Bitcoins. I was 19 years old at this time and I still had the mind of a child. I got scared bcuz I didn't want to Wikileaks to think we scammed them out of real money. Bitcoin had literally NO VALUE so I didn't take their original offer. This was my mistake and I own up to that. I should have let Hal or Gavin make that decision and continue to be the voice of Bitcoin and not the decision maker. Hal and Gavin were my seniors and I had a great respect for them but they were putting me in positions that I honestly wasn't not ready to handle. Then Bitcoin got the attention of Silk Road, a infamous black market website for drugs and illegal stuff. Someone told me that ppl were using Bitcoins to get illegal stuff on Silk Road because Bitcoins were untraceable. Gavin told me that the CIA had contacted him and I really panicked. I didn't want anything to do with Silk Road so I decided to abandon the Bitcoin project. And for that decision I am sorry. Once I made my decision I started to delete everything and before I left I told Gavin that Bitcoin is safe with him. I should have fought for with you guys even though I was only 19. I was starting a new semester in college so I left and I didn't look back. All of my old computers are gone now so I don't even know if there's any bitcoins on them. Nor do I remember my Satoshi login bcuz I deleted everything. If I ever remember my Satoshi login I will come back in this thread and update it but until then its up to you if you believe my story. I guarantee you won't ever hear anything like this about Satoshi. Over the years many ppl even grown men have pretended to be me. I created Bitcoin but I didn't do it alone. I had a team behind me and I wish I would have told them who I really was during that time just incase anything were to happen. I didn't know Hal passed away until a few days ago. I completely left everything behind during that CIA event. And shortly after I began to forget all about Bitcoin. I had college to worry about at that time and my goal was graduating. Five years later I accomplished that goal yes it took me 5 years cuz I was playing around my early years.



Satoshi died 10 years ago when I left the Bitcoin community and deleted all my tracks. I go by hots23 now and thats the first name I chose as my real identity. Don't ask me for Bitcoins or to post my wallet or anything. Number 1 I deleted all my stuff like 10 years ago and number 2 I would only donate Bitcoins to the original group of ppl who helped me along the way under the Bitcoin project.


Satoshi/hots23