Na última quarta-feira (9), uma movimentação massiva de mais de US$ 20milhões em Bitcoins (BTC), a partir de uma carteira que estava desativada desde outubro de 2010, levantou suspeitas na comunidade cripto de que o maior entusiasta da principal criptomoeda do mercado possa ter ‘eventualmente retornado às atividades’. No caso o criador, ou criadores, do Bitcoin: Satoshi Nakamoto. A transferência de 489 BTC foi rastreada pelo bot da plataforma Whale Art, que usou o Twitter para informar seus mais de 2,1 milhões de seguidores. WALTER BARROS – Cointelegraph.com
O início do ‘adormecimento da baleia’, há 11,4 anos, antecede em aproximadamente seis meses o dia 26 de abril de 2011, quando o lendário pseudônimo supostamente se despediu da comunidade cripto com a mensagem: “Eu mudei para outras coisas.” Data em que Satoshi Nakamoto teria desaparecido dos rastreamentos.
Além de um possível ou, pelo menos, desejado ressurgimento de Satoshi Nakamoto, a movimentação da baleia também chamou a atenção pela valorização de 22.805.476% do Bitcoin quando calculado o valor da cotação do BTC pelo mapeamento do CoinMarketCap na tarde desta sexta-feira (11), US$ 38.769,48, em relação aos US$ 0,17 registrados quando a baleia iniciou seu ‘sono profundo.’
Entretanto, o percentual pode ser ainda maior, uma vez que a plataforma sugere que os Bitcoins em posse da baleia naquela época valiam US$ 50, embora os gráficos históricos do BTC indiquem que no final de outubro de 2010, quando a baleia ‘adormeceu’, o Bitcoin já registrava uma valorização em torno de 70% em relação ao início daquele mês.
Coincidência ou não, na madrugada do mesmo dia 9, o bilionário Elon Musk usou o Twitter para lembrar Satoshi Nakamoto por meio de um anagrama formado por nomes de gigantes do setor tecnológico, dando a entender que as empresas poderiam estar por trás do pseudônimo do criador, ou criadores, do Bitcoin, conforme noticiou o Cointelegraph Brasil.
We don’t know who Satoshi Nakamoto was. We don’t know if Satoshi was male or female—we refer to him as male because that’s what his P2P Foundation profile claimed. We don’t know if Satoshi was a single person or a group of people. We don’t know where Satoshi is from, or where he is now.
A couple months later, Satoshi published the Bitcoin white paper to a public cryptography mailing list.
In January 2009, Satoshi finally officially open-sourced the codebase and launched the Bitcoin network. It debuted to little fanfare.
But mostly, early on, Satoshi Nakamoto himself was the only person running the software and mining coins.
May 2010 would mark the first ever bitcoin purchase: two pizzas from Papa John’s sold for 10,000 BTC.
Then, in April of 2011, he handed off control of the Bitcoin website and repository to core developer Gavin Andresen. Having slowly distanced himself from the day-to-day of Bitcoin, Satoshi eventually faded away from the project permanently.
As far as we know, no one has heard from Satoshi since.
There has never been any proof that any individual is Satoshi Nakamoto. At present day, Satoshi’s addresses own about 600,000-700,000 BTC. At current prices, his Bitcoin holdings would make him a multibillionaire.
But Satoshi’s bitcoins still sit in his addresses, unmoved to this day.
His motivations for creating Bitcoin were at least partly ideological from the beginning. When Satoshi announced the Bitcoin white paper, he claimed:
The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible.
Later, he wrote:
Yes, [we will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography,] but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own.
Satoshi acknowledged Bitcoin as a descendant of the P2P file sharing networks.
Satoshi seemed averse to taking credit for the creation of Bitcoin—either that, or he simply wanted to stay out of the limelight. He was humble and quick to give others credit. In the original Wikipedia stub that Satoshi wrote for Bitcoin, here’s how he describes the project:
Bitcoin is an implementation of Wei Dai’s b-money proposal on Cypherpunks in 2008 and Nick Szabo’s BitGold proposal.
It’s worth reflecting on why Satoshi chose to operate under a pseudonym. Remember that not all cypherpunks used pseudonyms. Both Adam Back and Hal Finney, two of Satoshi’s early collaborators, used their real names online. But Satoshi likely knew what he was doing was deeply subversive. And with the founders of e-gold and Liberty Reserve having been indicted by the US government, he must have believed he’d become an enemy of the state if Bitcoin became successful.
But Bitcoin is no longer driven by Satoshi. It belongs to the world now, and has evolved its own logic and its own culture.
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A.I. Carr 
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