Matthew Sigel, VanEck’s Head of Digital Assets Research, added a fresh twist to the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery saga on Tuesday, claiming that tech mogul Jack Dorsey is the elusive Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) creator.
What Happened: Sigel clarified on X that the opinion was his personal and not representative of VanEck.
He pointed to a combination of technical parallels, circumstantial links, patterns, uncanny coincidences, motive, and ability as evidence linking Dorsey, the founder of Twitter (Now X) and Block, Inc., to Satoshi.
Sigel shared his research findings that delved deep into establishing the link. Some of the ‘key’ evidence included Dorsey’s funding of legal defenses against false Satoshi claims, his declared interest in cryptography and pseudonymous identities, the fact that he went offline during early Bitcoin milestones, and even his former residence …
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