28 according to first meta s website radke had lived in. Autumn radtke a 28 year old american ceo of bitcoin exchange firm first meta was found dead in her singapore apartment on feb. Some in the bitcoin community are wary of the claim and the desire to uncover nakamoto in the first place.
Here s why satoshi nakamoto set bitcoin s supply limit to 21 million. Bitcoin s mysterious inventor is now one of the world s 50 richest people accessed march 30 2020. In the process nakamoto was the first to solve the double spending problem for digital currency using a.
As part of the implementation nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database. Satoshi nakamoto is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin authored the bitcoin white paper and created and deployed bitcoin s original reference implementation. Cotten was the founder of quadriga an online platform.
Canadian gerald cotten died suddenly aged 30 in december from complications with crohn s disease while volunteering at an orphanage in india. Quadriga which allows the trading of bitcoin litecoin. It comes after the death of quadriga s 30 year old founder gerald cotten who was the only person with the password to access the platform.
Nakamoto s absence also bodes well for the project s bona fide as a decentralized project. The project has been able to grow beyond the shadow that a creator can cast. Bitcoin inventor satoshi dead by design satoshi s internet footprint death as well as the fact that his one million coins have not moved have both been great for bitcoin.
An australian computer whizz who claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin has spoken out to explain why his business partner died in poverty several years before the cryptocurrency exploded in price. Gerald cotten who served as the chief executive of the quadrigacx exchange died on 9 december in india due to complications relating to crohn s disease according to canadian court documents. Bitcoin will spike to 20k within 18 months winklevoss twins call crypto the ultimate social network hong kong cnn business the death of a canadian entrepreneur has left a huge stash.
