Disgraced biotech entrepreneur and hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli has published a finding that appears to prove who the real person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto is.
The finding was shared in a blog post published on Tuesday, where Shkreli decrypted a signature from the first Bitcoin transaction ever made.
Shkreli’s blog post said:
The following is the Bitcoin wallet Hal Finney used to receive the first Bitcoin transfer from Satoshi.
1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3
The following signature
HM7vpPSUbNsfDHRX6gv8xxWcVNHEc/3pOk0YrVehaGoUdbWizznfzOdELkLd1EjSXsW1oE5vHAkNAPzrAVzhuoI=
decrypts to:
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This Transaction was made by Paul Leroux to Hal Finney on January 12, 2009 #bitcoin
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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