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Bilal Khalid: Real Satoshi Nakamoto or ICO Stunt?

Published 08/20/2019, 03:38 AM
Updated 08/20/2019, 04:41 AM
 Bilal Khalid: Real Satoshi Nakamoto or ICO Stunt?

If you believe the tale of James Bilal Khalid Caan, a.k.a. Satoshi Nakamoto, the legendary hoard of the first mined Bitcoin (BTC) is buried forever, in a crashed hard-drive residing in a landfill or already recycled. At least this is the rationale for why the coins of Satoshi were never moved from the initial addresses to which they were mined.

So the genie is out of the bottle, once again: the real Satoshi Nakamoto is not Dr. Craig Wright, and neither is he a close acquaintance of John McAfee. He is not Hal Finney. He is Pakistani national Bilal Khan, residing in the UK and working for the NHS.

Note that Bilal Khalid uses the widely recognized 980,000 BTC estimation, not bothering to give a more exact number of how many BTC he mined as Satoshi Nakamoto in the early days.

The crypto community was immediately skeptical of the revelation, calling it “Satoshi Nakamoto fan fiction”.

https://twitter.com/SatoshiNRH/status/1163545475661914115

Perhaps the biggest red flag is that the rationale behind the creation of Bitcoin was predominantly libertari...

This article appeared first on Cryptovest

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