{"id":11693,"date":"2025-02-06T13:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11693"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:01:32","slug":"kraken-may-know-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-claims-coinbase-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11693","title":{"rendered":"Kraken May Know Bitcoin Creator Satoshi, Claims Coinbase Exec"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a recent twist surrounding Bitcoin\u2019s elusive founder, data surfaced this week suggesting a Canadian exchange \u2014 later acquired by Kraken \u2014 may hold key clues to the true identity of the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n

The development follows newly published forensic research by Arkham Intelligence and a subsequent deep dive from Conor Grogan, Director at Coinbase, who posits that Satoshi may have used Canada\u2019s Cavirtex<\/a> (acquired by Kraken in 2016) for at least one transaction in Bitcoin\u2019s early days.<\/p>\n

Does Jesse Powell Know Who Created Bitcoin?<\/h2>\n

On Tuesday, blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence revealed that it had added an additional 22,000 addresses tied to Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s purported mining activities, bringing the total to over 1,096,354 BTC \u2014 valued at approximately $108 billion. These addresses were identified using the well-known \u201cPatoshi Pattern,\u201d a blockchain analysis technique that pinpoints a cluster of early blocks believed to have been mined by Satoshi.<\/p>\n

Arkham announced<\/a> via X: \u201cWe\u2019ve added an additional 22,000 Satoshi addresses with a total BTC balance of 1,096,354 to the Satoshi Nakamoto entity on Arkham. These are derived from a known mining pattern referred to as the Patoshi Pattern, and include the only (known) addresses from which Satoshi spent BTC from.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conor Grogan, who serves as a Director at Coinbase since 2020, used Arkham\u2019s dataset to conduct his own analysis. On February 5, he posted<\/a> a series of findings on X, highlighting several activities he believes may shed light on the mysterious Bitcoin founder, including evidence of a potential link to a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went through Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s wallets; thread of new findings \u2026 My best guess is that Satoshi was last active onchain in 2014 \u2026 He may have used a Canadian BTC exchange (!) \u2026 Kraken may know the identity of Satoshi,\u201dGrogan wrote.<\/p>\n

Among Grogan\u2019s most striking revelations is that an address labeled \u201c1PYYj\u201d \u2014 which he connects to Satoshi through the Patoshi Pattern cluster \u2014 received BTC from Cavirtex, a Canadian exchange that Kraken<\/a> later purchased in 2016. According to Grogan, \u201cThis address is also associated with funding 12ib, one of the largest active BTC addresses of all time, which hold 3B of BTC today.\u201d<\/p>\n

He argues that if Cavirtex did indeed hold any personally identifiable information (KYC data) on 1PYYj or related addresses before Kraken\u2019s acquisition, then \u201cthere is a chance that Jesse Powell has information on the true identity behind Satoshi.\u201d Grogan added in jest: \u201cMy advice to him would be to delete the data.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grogan\u2019s analysis also points to 24 outbound transactions from the addresses tied to the Patoshi Pattern. Notably, 200 BTC were sent to an early Bitcoin faucet across two transactions, reminding the community of a time when claiming 5 BTC was as simple as filling out a CAPTCHA.<\/p>\n

Additionally, he noted a 500 BTC transfer in 2010 to 1PYYj that could represent \u201ca new documented case of a Satoshi payment,\u201d if the sender was indeed Nakamoto and the recipient a third party.<\/p>\n

While Grogan\u2019s thread underscores mounting indications of Satoshi\u2019s interaction with a Canadian exchange, he remains cautious about drawing definitive conclusions. He states, \u201cWe can\u2019t definitively link these [addresses] to Satoshi but there is good evidence,\u201d adding that these findings slightly weaken earlier theories pointing to cryptographer Len Sassaman. \u201cThis is the first set of evidence I\u2019ve seen in years that has decreased my confidence that Satoshi was Len [Sassaman]<\/a>,\u201d Grogan wrote.<\/p>\n

For now, neither Kraken nor its co-founder Jesse Powell has commented on the matter, leaving observers and researchers to continue sifting through the blockchain\u2019s early-day clues in search of the world\u2019s most infamous pseudonym.<\/p>\n

At press time, BTC traded at $97,834.<\/p>\n

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In a recent twist surrounding Bitcoin\u2019s elusive founder, data surfaced this week suggesting a Canadian exchange \u2014 later acquired by Kraken \u2014 may hold key clues to the true identity of the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. The development follows newly published forensic research by Arkham Intelligence and a subsequent deep dive from Conor Grogan, Director at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-11693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}