Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, co-founder of Binance, stirred the crypto world with an outlandish yet fascinating theory: Satoshi Nakamoto could be an AI from the future. In a recent interview with Turkish blockchain advocate Erhan Ünal, CZ said while he personally doesn’t know who Satoshi is, he’s heard wild theories—including the idea of a time-traveling AI inventing Bitcoin.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto ?
“I think it’s good that we don’t know who he is,” CZ said, explaining that even those early Bitcoin contributors who communicated via email with Satoshi never uncovered anything definitive. No IP addresses, no leaks—just a legacy shrouded in secrecy.
CZ also acknowledged the possibility that Satoshi Nakamoto could be a group rather than an individual, emphasizing that whoever it was, they “covered their tracks really well.” Theories about Satoshi’s identity spiked again recently following HBO’s 2024 documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, which controversially named Canadian cryptographer Peter Todd as Satoshi—a claim Todd strongly denied.
On Bitcoin’s future, CZ remained optimistic, saying Bitcoin will be “way bigger than gold,” urging people not to judge new technologies using old benchmarks.
At the moment, Bitcoin’s market cap stands at $1.88 trillion, having recently fallen back to seventh place after briefly surpassing silver, Amazon, and Google earlier this month.
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