Updated: 10.04.2026
- The crypto community has been introduced to a new contender for the role of Bitcoin’s creator. Satoshi Nakamoto.
- Derivatives exchange analysts BitMEX They decided that it could be the British singer Amy Winehouse, who died in 2011.
Crypto exchange analysts BitMEX conducted our own research and Found out, who they think is real Satoshi Nakamoto. They believe it’s British singer Amy Jade Winehouse, who died on July 23, 2011. Here’s how they explain their conclusions.
The first piece of evidence is the connection to the UK. According to on-chain data, the first Bitcoin block contained text from a newspaper headline: “The Times, 03.01.2009. Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” This headline was published in the British newspaper The Times of London and mentioned the name of Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling.
The second British-related clue is that Amy Jade Winehouse was also a British citizen and lived in the London borough of Camden. Three months before her death on April 26, 2011, Satoshi sent the last message to the blockchain.
I’d like you to stop talking about me as a mysterious, secretive person. The press is simply blowing this out of proportion to the pirate currency story. wrote then Nakamoto.
Researchers believe this explains why Bitcoin’s founder never spent the coins he mined in 2009.
According to BitMEXAmy released her final studio album, Back to Black, on October 27, 2006, in honor of Adam Back, who developed the proof-of-work concept used in Bitcoin. Just under two years later, Satoshi published a whitepaper on Bitcoin, again mentioning Adam Back, as did Amy, who named her album after him.
It took Nakamoto 18 months to develop BitcoinThis coincides precisely with the period between the release of Amy’s last album and the publication of the Bitcoin White Paper.
There are other coincidences that allow BitMEX Calling Amy Winehouse the founder of the flagship cryptocurrency is a misnomer. However, these arguments are met with smirks from most members of the crypto community.
We previously wrote that the New York Times опубликовала investigation that suggests that a British cryptographer Adam Beck maybe Satoshi Nakamoto. The similarity in handwriting led journalists to this conclusion.
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