Satoshi Nakamoto is famous for being the presumed pseudonym of the person or people who developed the first Bitcoin software and introduced the concept of cryptocurrency to the general public. Nakamoto solved the problem of digital cryptocurrency being duplicated by creating the blockchain system of verification.
Nobody has ever met Nakamoto, and no photos of the person exist. An analysis of the first 36,289 mined blocks showed that one miner, believed to be Nakamoto, had accumulated more than 1 million Bitcoins. At the end of 2025, the value of one Bitcoin was about $87,500.