Bitcoin's legendary creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, is 48 today, at least according to the information they provided to the global network P2P Foundation when they registered.
Although Bitcoin's identity creators, so their birthdays remain unknown to the public, cryptocurrency enthusiasts noted a year increase in Satoshi’s age in their P2P Foundation profiles implying a birthday of April 5, 1975. Cryptocurrency users have suggested that the date since Satoshi likely represents a group of people rather than an individual may come from the day in 1933 when U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt began taking the country off the gold standard and issued an executive order requiring all US citizens return value in excess of $100 to the Federal Reserve.
Speculating on the true identity of the people who helped create the original cryptocurrency has been a popular pastime for many users on social media and online forums. Proposed names include computer scientist and Bit Gold creator Nick Szabo, early BTC contributor Hal Finney (who sadly passed away in 2014), cryptographer Adam Back, and Japanese-American engineer and physicist Dorian Nakamoto. While Satoshi's face remains unknown, members of the cryptocurrency space continue to use their likeness to honor them in other ways. A bronze statue of Bitcoin's creator is displayed to visitors in Budapest's Graphisoft Park in 2021, with many marketing Satoshi Nakamoto as the winner of the annual Nobel Prize in Economics.
Other important dates for BTC fans include the release of the Bitcoin white paper on October 31, 2008, and Bitcoin Genesis Day on January 3, 2009, marking Satoshi mining the first BTC block and leading to the first Bitcoin Minted time coin. There's more to come: the next Bitcoin halving is expected in 2024 and the mining of the 21 millionth coin. At the time of publication, Bitcoin is priced at $28,296, up more than 26% over the past 30 days.
