Musk is the founder of Bitcoin "Satoshi Nakamoto"? He responded

On November 28, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Musk said that the report that "Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin, is Musk" is untrue. As shown in the picture, a netizen forwarded the relevant report and @ed Musk. Musk responded that this is not true. Musk also said that a friend once gave him Bitcoin, but he didn't know where he put it.

Earlier, foreign media reported that former SpaceX intern Sahil Gupta believed that Musk was Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin. (Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym used by the founder of Bitcoin.)

He believes that Bitcoin was written by someone who is proficient in C++, a language that Musk uses extensively at SpaceX.

Gupta also cited other clues that support his point of view, including Musk’s interest in solving global problems, his unusual silence on cryptocurrencies, and Musk’s public statement that he does not own any Bitcoin, which fits the logic of Satoshi Nakamoto’s fading from the Bitcoin market.

Bitcoin prices have surged this year. After breaking through the $9,000 mark over the weekend, the digital currency hit a high of $9,732 in New York on Monday morning, according to research site CoinDesk, just seven days after breaking through the $8,000 mark. At the end of last year, the price of Bitcoin was still hovering around $950.

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that uses blockchain as a payment system. It was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009 based on a borderless peer-to-peer network and consensus-driven open source software. It can solve the problems of one coin for multiple payments and transaction security through encrypted digital signatures without going through any third-party credit institutions.

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