Prominent Bitcoin hater has jokingly announced himself to be the mysterious Bitcoin creator – Satoshi Nakamoto
SchiffGold chairman, permanent Bitcoin hater Peter Schiff, has taken to Twitter to congratulate the community with April Fool’s Day.
Apparently, following the joke of Binance CZ about him being Satoshi Nakamoto, Schiff admitted that it was indeed he who created the largest global cryptocurrency Bitcoin in 2008-2009 (and the first crypto ever back then).
Schiff jokes that he’s Satoshi
Schiff tweeted that he owned “billions of Bitcoin” and continued to buy BTC. For this reason, he continued, he constantly slammed Bitcoin in hopes of getting rid of “paper hands” and gradually buying BTC’s total supply of 21 million coins so he could to have “the moon all to himself”.
In tweet that followed, Schiff explained that he added that the piece about “the moon” because he wanted to make sure everyone understands his April 1 joke.
“I wanted to make sure no one took my April Fool’s joke seriously. I didn’t want to be responsible for fools buying #Bitcoin.
The crypto community has been long trying to figure out who among the crypto influencers alive today could be Satoshi Nakamoto. Among the “candidates” Hal Finney (passed away in 2014), Adam Back (Blockstream CEO), and some even joked that it is Elon Musk.
CSW and other fake Satoshis
In 2018-2019, several self-proclaimed Satoshis emerged, the most active of them being Craig Wright, founder of Bitcoin SV, who adopted aggressive tactics in trying to prove that he is the real creator of Bitcoin.
He sued multiple top representatives of the crypto community, who rejected his claims, including Vitalik Buterin, an Ethereum co-founder.
As U.Today reported in March, Craig Wright lost a case he filed against 16 top Bitcoin developers, including Gregory Maxwell, Pieter Wuille, and Peter Todd.
