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The hunt for the mysterious Bitcoin inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto continues to this day, as new data-driven research has been recently deployed in order to figure out the creator\u2019s location while he\/she or they worked on the network. The researchers analyzed Satoshi\u2019s 539 Bitcointalk posts, 34 emails, 169 code commits, metadata from all the versions of bitcoin he worked on, the genesis block data, and archived data from the Wayback Machine. <\/strong><\/p>\n To this very day, the world is still clueless about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the first cryptocurrency network Bitcoin<\/a>. Just recently, research stemming from The Chain Bulletin published an editorial<\/a> that attempts to hone in on Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s location during the creation of the world\u2019s first blockchain.<\/p>\n On November 23, 2020, the author Doncho Karaivanov explains researchers combed through \u201cSatoshi\u2019s Bitcointalk posts, Sourceforge commits, and emails, along with other available data.\u201d According to the research, the data points to \u201cthe most likely place the anonymous inventor of Bitcoin called home \u2013 London.\u201d<\/p>\n Karaivanov says the research is data-driven and relies on timestamps that cover approximately \u201c742 activity instances from 206 days (not consecutive).\u201d The timestamped documentation started on Halloween on October 31, 2008, and statistics end on December 13, 2010, which was the last time the community heard from Satoshi<\/a>. The researchers compiled scatter charts based on suspected time zones in order to see when Bitcoin\u2019s mysterious inventor was awake and active.<\/p>\n \u201cCommon suspect locations are the UK (GMT), US Eastern (EST), US Pacific (PST), Japan (JST), and Australia (AEST),\u201d Karaivanov\u2019s study details. \u201cThe last two were easy to debunk, but the first three prospects needed further examination.\u201d<\/p>\n During the course of Satoshi\u2019s online activity, the researchers also note that Nakamoto posted a total of 539 times on the website forum bitcointalk.org. \u201cLooking at this data alone, we cannot determine, beyond a reasonable doubt, which time zone Satoshi lived in,\u201d Karaivanov\u2019s report stresses.<\/p>\n On Sourceforge, a code repository web portal where the Bitcoin code was once stored, Satoshi deployed 169 commits during that period of time. Again the researchers used scatter charts based on specific time zones to analyze Satoshi\u2019s commit activity, which has proof timestamps in UTC.<\/p>\n Similarly, the commit charts just like the Bitcointalk post charts, are consistent and Karaivanov notes that they don\u2019t leave a smoking gun in any of the plausible regions. Then the researchers charted Satoshi\u2019s bulk of email activity which alone did not leave any hard evidence. However, by merging all the data from the Bitcointalk posts, commits, and emails the data starts to deduce that Satoshi\u2019s home location wasn\u2019t in Japan or Australia.<\/p>\n The biggest clue that points to Satoshi stemming from London resided in the genesis block\u2019s initial message taken from The Times (Times of London) newspaper issue on January 3, 2009.<\/p>\n According to the researchers they deduct that Nakamoto could not have seen the Times of London headline, if the inventor was located in the United States. \u201cThis exact issue of The Times did not circulate in the United States,\u201d Karaivanov wrote.<\/p>\n Karaivanov says that it would be \u201cextremely unlikely\u201d that the front page of the U.S. edition was formatted in the same way, as it would be entirely different than the Times of London headline in the UK. Moreover, the newspaper did have an online version of the story, but the headline was written in a completely different way. That specific online article<\/a> said: \u201cChancellor Alistair Darling on brink of second bailout for banks.\u201d<\/p>\n The genesis block data tips the scales \u201cheavily in favor of the GMT time zone,\u201d the author insists. \u201cThis is without mentioning all the clues that point to Satoshi being British, like his spelling of endings with -ise instead of -ize and -our instead of -or, e.g., analyse, organise, neighbour, colour, etc,\u201d Karaivanov\u2019s study concludes. \u201cThen there\u2019s his use<\/a> of the word bloody. More specifically, we not only think he is British, but that he also lived in London while working on Bitcoin.\u201d<\/p>\n Karaivanov also concedes by saying that it is impossible to say with \u201cabsolute certainty\u201d that London was the precise location. \u201cHowever, we can say, with reasonable confidence, that he was located in London,\u201d the researcher added.<\/p>\n Karaivanov\u2019s research is not the first time Satoshi clues have been uncovered by researching specific time zones in comparison with Nakamoto\u2019s known online activity. In February 2018, another data-driven research study called \u201cThe Time Zones of Satoshi Nakamoto,\u201d also attempted to uncover Nakamoto\u2019s location during the creation of Bitcoin as well.<\/p>\n For instance, the report highlights an early draft of the Bitcoin paper<\/a> and the paper\u2019s online metadata. Alongside this, they looked at the metadata tied to the bitcoin.org\/bitcoin.pdf<\/a> Nakamoto also created. Combining the two timestamp values, indicates the computer Satoshi used to do these things online was set to \u2018Mountain Time Zone\u2019 in the United States.<\/p>\n But the 2018 paper about Satoshi\u2019s time zones is a bit more inconclusive, as there are multiple timestamps that show Satoshi could\u2019ve been located in a myriad of regions. For example, the 2018 study also says that Satoshi\u2019s commits indicate his computer leveraged \u201cBritish Summer Time\u201d timestamps.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Time Zones of Satoshi Nakamoto\u201d review also highlights an analysis<\/a> of Nakamoto\u2019s hourly activity that was published in 2011. That specific research from 2011 concludes that Satoshi must have lived in an EST time zone in the U.S. The 2018 investigation alludes to circumstantial evidence that Satoshi was a \u201cnight owl\u201d and regularly pulled all-nighters online. Most of Nakamoto\u2019s all-nighter periods took place in the \u201csummer of 2010 and the month of February.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the most compelling findings in the 2018 research suggests that Satoshi rushed toward the end of his task, after taking a brief period of time off from the Bitcoin project. The findings show that Nakamoto put little to no activity into anything Bitcoin-related during the 2010 months of March, April, and May. Then, all of a sudden, in the summer of 2010, there was a huge burst of online activity from Bitcoin\u2019s creator.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the behaviour of someone who at the end of February found himself with an all-consuming task to complete by the end of May and then had practically unlimited free time, including the latitude to work into the small hours of the night, until the following October,\u201d the armchair detective dubbed \u2018In Search Of Satoshi<\/a>\u2019 concluded on February 13, 2018.<\/p>\n The latest 2020 research suggesting that Satoshi lived in London and the 2018 research does show evidence that weighs heavier toward a UK-based home location. In the opinion of Karaivanov and his team\u2019s research, London definitely holds the highest probability.<\/p>\n \u201cPut together, his writing style, his activity pattern, and the Genesis block message, blatantly points to the capital of England as the most likely candidate,\u201d Karaivanov\u2019s findings deduce.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a number of cryptocurrency advocates discussed Karaivanov\u2019s time zone study and questioned the reliability of his findings. For example, Jorge Stolfi, a professor of computer science commented on the theory after the study was published on the Reddit forum r\/btc.<\/p>\n Stolfi said<\/a> the \u201c\u2019London\u2019 hypothesis implies that he worked on bitcoin straight from 17:00 to 03:00 without dinner. The \u2018US\/Eastern\u2019 hypothesis would imply that he started working on it at noon and had dinner after about 22:00. The \u201cUS\/Western\u201d hypothesis would imply that he worked all day from 08:00 to about 20:00 and practically did not work after dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n Stolfi added:<\/p>\n While all these are possible, if anything this data would confirm that he was in the US, probably in the Western part during that time \u2014 agreeing with the PDF metadata.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n What do you think about the study that assumes Satoshi lived in London while creating Bitcoin? Let us know what you think about this enigmatic subject in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The post New Research Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Lived in London Creating Bitcoin<\/a> appeared first on Bitcoin News<\/a>.<\/p>\nReport Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Lived in London While Creating Bitcoin<\/h2>\n
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Bitcoin\u2019s Genesis Block: \u2018Chancellor on Brink of Second Bailout for Banks\u2019<\/h2>\n
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Satoshi Time Zone Studies from 2011 and 2018<\/h2>\n
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Satoshi\u2019s All Nighters and Cramming to Get Bitcoin Complete<\/h2>\n
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