Satoshi Nakamoto goes by this name. Person or persons who designed and deployed bitcoin’s original reference implementation produced the bitcoin white paper and developed bitcoin. Nakamoto also created the first blockchain database as part of the implementation. Up until December 2010, Nakamoto was involved in the development of bitcoin. Many people have claimed to be Nakamoto, or have been falsely accused of being him. When discussing technical subjects, Nakamoto has never divulged personal information, however, he has provided opinions on banking and fractional-reserve banking on occasion. Nakamoto claimed to be a 37-year-old Japanese man on his P2P Foundation profile as of 2012; yet, due to his native-level usage of English, others felt he was unlikely to be Japanese. Some have speculated that Nakamoto is a group of people: A security researcher who read the bitcoin code speculated that Nakamoto could be a “team of people” or a “genius”; Laszlo Hanyecz, a developer who