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November 24, 2020 03:25 pm

New Research Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Lived In London While Working On Bitcoin.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Satoshi didn't leave much behind when he decided to leave the scene for good back in April, 2011. But, he did leave enough for us to conduct a thorough research into his whereabouts when he was working on Bitcoin. To conduct this research, we gathered data from the following:Satoshi's Bitcointalk account (539 available posts)His 34 emails on the cryptography and Bitcoin mailing listsHis 169 commits on SourceForge The metadata from Bitcoin whitepaper versions from 2008 (PDF) and 2009 (PDF)The Genesis block Various Wayback Machine archives The data-driven part of the research focuses on timestamps from Satoshi's Bitcointalk posts, SourceForge commits, and emails, which represent a total of 742 activity instances from 206 days (not consecutive). The timestamp data starts from October 31, 2008, when he first announced Bitcoin on the cryptography mailing list, and ends on December 13, 2010, when he sent his last email that is known to be UTC timestamped. Using that data we compiled scatter charts in different suspect time zones to see when he was active and when he was not. We then used other data we gathered to further confirm the most likely location he called home. Common suspect locations are the UK (GMT), US Eastern (EST), US Pacific (PST), Japan (JST), and Australia (AEST). The last two were easy to debunk, but the first three prospects needed further examination.

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