{"id":20956,"date":"2025-02-06T13:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/coinbase-executive-suggests-kraken-may-unveil-satoshi-nakamotos-identity\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:57:58","slug":"coinbase-executive-suggests-kraken-may-unveil-satoshi-nakamotos-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/coinbase-executive-suggests-kraken-may-unveil-satoshi-nakamotos-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase Executive Suggests Kraken May Unveil Satoshi Nakamoto&#8217;s Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satoshi Nakamoto was last active in 2014, and the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken might possess information about his identity. This conclusion was drawn by Coinbase&#8217;s Head of Product, Conor Grogan, following an analysis of the wallets of the presumed Bitcoin creator.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I went through Satoshi Nakamoto&#8217;s wallets; thread of new findings that I don&#8217;t think have been previously reported including:<\/p>\n<p>-My best guess is that Satoshi was last active onchain in 2014<br \/>-He may have used a Canadian BTC exchange (!)<br \/>-Kraken may know the identity of Satoshi <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ajD2A73fm8\">pic.twitter.com\/ajD2A73fm8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor (@jconorgrogan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jconorgrogan\/status\/1887154636190093696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The expert based his analysis on a recently presented <a href=\"https:\/\/intel.arkm.com\/explorer\/entity\/satoshi-nakamoto\">list of addresses<\/a> by the analytics company Arkham. These hold 1.096 million BTC valued at $108 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcv7GhaFZTUNeZWDVeM9gnktGw7BTA0LlewDC1a4r8RrgjcUEB8GHk30n0DyIc572p-QDxFR7UJ1IiFrLiQdUakawX5TgtZeBojhjqtMTPKB1GZ-MAVxv-y0C3I_hU3cPO43WjlvA?key=V9Boprr1IFVod5V_V7xuBggE\" alt=\"Coinbase Executive Suggests Kraken May Unveil Satoshi Nakamoto's Identity\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The total value of bitcoins held by Satoshi Nakamoto. Data: Arkham.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is no 100% certainty that all addresses belong to Satoshi. However, there are strong reasons to believe so, according to Grogan.<\/p>\n<p>There are 24 documented outgoing transactions from these addresses. The most popular recipient is the wallet &#8220;1PYYj,&#8221; which received bitcoins from the Canadian crypto exchange CaVirtEx.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I believe this is the first documented on-chain transfer between a wallet associated with Satoshi and a centralized exchange,&#8221; noted Grogan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This address is also linked to the 12ib wallet, one of the most active over time. It currently holds 3 BTC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This suggests that 1PY was either associated with Satoshi or is a very early follower\/co-author,&#8221; emphasized the Coinbase Head of Product.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2016, Kraken acquired CaVirtEx, which raises the possibility that it may hold information about Satoshi&#8217;s true identity.<\/p>\n<p>Grogan recommended deleting any information about the Bitcoin creator if it exists.<\/p>\n<p>In the documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, released by HBO, the creator of the first cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/peter-todd-refutes-hbos-claim-of-being-bitcoins-creator\">is named<\/a> as Peter Todd. He is from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The programmer denied the information and later <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/peter-todd-denies-being-bitcoins-creator-amidst-hbo-documentary-claims\">was forced to go into hiding<\/a> for security reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satoshi Nakamoto was last active in 2014, and the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken might possess information about his identity. This conclusion was drawn by Coinbase&#8217;s Head of Product, Conor Grogan, following an analysis of the wallets of the presumed Bitcoin creator. I went through Satoshi Nakamoto&#8217;s wallets; thread of new findings that I don&#8217;t think have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,193,111],"class_list":["post-20956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinbase","tag-kraken","tag-satoshi-nakamoto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}