Satoshi Nakamoto is said to be the inventor of bitcoin and wrote the token's original white paper in 2008.
Nakamoto's paper, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," was published in October 2008.
In his white paper, Nakamoto cited the work of Stuart Haber, a computer scientist credited with helping invent blockchain technology.
A Newsweek article in 2014 said that Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese American man living in California, was the elusive inventor of bitcoin.
After the article published, Nakamoto's online account revived itself after a five-year hiatus, stating: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."