Throughout a current interview with Turkish social media influencers, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao quipped that Bitcoin was invented by a synthetic intelligence (AI) from the longer term.
“It could be software program coming again by means of time…It is exhausting to think about now, nevertheless it might be attainable,” CZ instructed.
This, in line with the crypto mogul, might be one of many “stranger” solutions to one of many longest-standing questions in crypto.
Nevertheless, CZ has careworn that he himself doesn’t know who the Bitcoin creator is.
“I have no idea who he’s. So, I’ve by no means built-in with them. I do know individuals who have (in early days)…so I do not know who he’s,” he stated.
If Bitcoin have been invented by a bunch of individuals, it will be very difficult for them to stay nameless, CZ argues.
“If that is one particular person, in addition they cowl their tracks very properly…” he added.
A few of the high Satoshi candidates embody the late cypherpunk Hal Finney, American pc scientist Nick Szabo, the late info privateness advocate Len Sassaman, and Blockstream CEO Adam Again. Final yr, an HBO documentary recognized Canadian Bitcoin developer Peter Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto, nevertheless it was broadly panned inside the cryptocurrency neighborhood.