The Bitcoin Conspiracy Too Big to Be True

The first person to receive a Bitcoin transaction was computer scientist Hal Finney, born in 1954. He was also the first to tweet about Bitcoin. And in 2004, he was the first person in the world to create a reusable proof-of-work system — before Bitcoin came along, using exactly such a system.

Was Finney Nakamoto?

What were the odds that a Japanese math professor named Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto (who had nothing to do with Bitcoin) happened to live 1.6 miles from Hal Finney’s home in Temple City? Coincidence. Publicly, Finney, who died in August 2014 of ALS, always denied being the elusive “Satoshi Nakamoto”, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.