Satoshi Nakamoto - A “geek” Who Speaks In Code

Marko Vidrih
4 min readJun 4, 2018

In an interview recently, Laszlo Hanyecz revealed the character of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Hanyecz was the first person in the world to use Bitcoin for physical trading. He was the programmer who spent 10,000 BTCs buying two pizzas.

Until today, the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is still a mystery. People can only prove that this person is real through the mail he left, the online commentary, and the Bitcoin white paper.

In the early days of Bitcoin’s birth, Hanyecz was a freelance developer. He said that Satoshi Nakamoto is a weird guy who often gives him a “strange feeling.”

His first contact with Bitcoin began with mining. He also expressed on the Internet that he is willing to contribute to the development of Bitcoin. Nakamoto responded, when their mail exchanges exceeded one hundred.

“I thought Bitcoin was awesome, and I wanted to be involved, but I had a regular developing job,” Hanyecz said.

“Nakamoto would send me emails like ‘Hey, can you fix this bug?’ ‘Hey, can you do this?’”

Hanyecz said that even though his work on bitcoin was a side project he worked on for free, Nakamoto treated him as if he were a full-time employee.

“He’d say, ‘Hey, the west side’s down,’ or ‘We have these bugs — we need to fix this.’ I’d be like, we? We’re not a team,” Hanyecz said. “I thought that it was approval from him, that maybe he accepted me as a member. But I didn’t want the responsibility. I didn’t really understand all of the forces that were going on at the time.”

Hanyecz admits that at the time he felt that some of the requirements of Satoshi Nakamoto were annoying, so he often ignored the news sent by TA. Hanyecz said that Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity is still a mystery because ta always wants to remain anonymous and private. However, it seems strange to him that Satoshi Nakamoto intentionally concealed his identity. He or they have never had any personal conversation with me. I asked him a few questions, but he always avoided answering.

Nakamoto didn’t seem too thrilled about Hanyecz’s burgeoning mining pursuits either, Hanyecz said.

“He said, “Well, I’d rather not have you do the mining too much,’”…

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Marko Vidrih

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