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Satoshi Nakamoto

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Satoshi Nakamoto (fl. 31 October 2008 – 26 April 2011) 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. As part of the implementation, Nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database. Nakamoto was active in the development of bitcoin until December 2010. There has been widespread speculation about Nakamoto's true identity, with various people posited as the person or persons behind the name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Satoshi Nakamoto is the 4th most popular computer scientist (up from 32nd in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Japan (up from 513th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Satoshi Nakamoto ranks 4 out of 245. Before him are Alan Turing, Richard Stallman, and Grace Hopper. After him are Tim Berners-Lee, John McCarthy, Barbara Liskov, Dennis Ritchie, Frances E. Allen, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Geoffrey Hinton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Satoshi Nakamoto ranks 1. After him are 50 Cent, Angelina Jolie, Liz Truss, David Beckham, Sia, Richard Hughes, Enrique Iglesias, Kate Winslet, Bradley Cooper, Hernán Crespo, and Asma al-Assad.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Satoshi Nakamoto ranks 20 out of 6,245. Before him are Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Hideki Tojo (1884), Emperor Taishō (1879), Murasaki Shikibu (973), and Shinzō Abe (1954). After him are Hiroo Onoda (1922), Yoko Ono (1933), Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), and Osamu Dazai (1909).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Japan

Among computer scientists born in Japan, Satoshi Nakamoto ranks 1. After him are Ken Kutaragi (1950), Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965), and Chieko Asakawa (1958).

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