From Birthday Coincidences to Geographic Exposure: Unveiling the Mysterious Connection Between Jack Dorsey and Satoshi Nakamoto

The mysterious founder of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in the cryptocurrency world. Recently, Seán Murray, the editor-in-chief of financial media outlet deBanked, has put forth a series of claims attempting to link Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), to Nakamoto, igniting intense discussions.

WHY JACK DORSEY IS Satoshi NAKAMOTO
Jack Dorsey was:
1 of ~1,300 confirmed cypherpunks in 1996 (his UMR email)
Wore an Adam Back t-shirt in the UMR yearbook
UMR students were called Miners
Was a CompSci & Math major with an interest in crypto
Member of ACM in 1997 to at…
— Seán Murray (@financeguy74) February 15, 2025

Is Jack Dorsey Satoshi Nakamoto?
For a long time, there have been speculations linking Jack Dorsey to Satoshi Nakamoto. However, during an interview with computer scientist and podcast host Lex Fridman in April 2020, he denied such rumors, responding vaguely:
“No, if I were, would I tell you?”
Nonetheless, Murray remains convinced that Dorsey is “very likely” to be Nakamoto. He pointed out that Dorsey exhibited strong “cypherpunk” tendencies as early as 1996, including wearing a t-shirt of Hashcash inventor Adam Back and writing a declaration in 2001 about “making an impact in the world without leaving a trace.”

Coincidences of birthdays, timestamps, and special addresses
One of the core pieces of evidence presented by Murray is the coincidence of important Bitcoin milestones with the birthdays of Dorsey’s family:

The first Bitcoin transaction occurred on January 11, 2009, which is Dorsey’s mother’s birthday.
The last block mined by Satoshi Nakamoto was on March 5, 2010, which is Dorsey’s father’s birthday.
Satoshi Nakamoto registered on the Bitcoin forum on November 19, which is Dorsey’s birthday.
Additionally, Murray noted that the original Bitcoin code files are all timestamped at “4 AM,” which is the same time Dorsey once marked in his Twitter profile.
He also mentioned that Nakamoto used “brute force” to create Bitcoin addresses, one of which begins with “jD2m,” which he believes stands for “Jack Dorsey 2 Mint,” correlating with the address of 2 Mint Plaza in San Francisco, where Dorsey previously lived.

Nakamoto’s email hacked, revealing geographical location?
Furthermore, Murray presented a key clue related to Nakamoto’s location:

On September 8, 2014, Nakamoto’s GMX email account was hacked, and the hacker claimed to have information linking Nakamoto to St. Louis (one of the cities in Missouri) and attempted to extort him. Notably, Dorsey was born in St. Louis.
On January 10, 2009, Nakamoto accidentally logged into the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), and the IP address of that login was traced to California, which was precisely where Twitter’s headquarters was located at the time, a place Dorsey frequented.
Anticipating strict U.S. regulations, did he choose to disappear?
On December 5, 2010, Nakamoto urged everyone on the Bitcoin forum not to donate Bitcoins to WikiLeaks. However, just nine days later (December 14), Twitter received a “secret court order” from the U.S. government demanding all information related to WikiLeaks. Although Dorsey was not the CEO of Twitter at that time, he was still a board member.
Murray also discovered that Nakamoto’s last login to the Bitcoin forum was on December 13, 2010, exactly the day before Twitter received the government order. He posits that the timing of these events may not be coincidental, suggesting that Nakamoto (possibly Dorsey) chose to fade from public view after predicting or learning about the U.S. government’s regulatory actions.

Controversy and skepticism: Is the evidence sufficient?
Like any theory about Nakamoto, Murray’s speculation has faced considerable criticism:

Some X users believe that the creator of Bitcoin would be unlikely to willingly accept censorship, especially given that Dorsey has faced criticism for cooperating with government censorship during his tenure at Twitter.
Another point of contention is that Dorsey wore a t-shirt emblazoned with “Satoshi Nakamoto” during the 2024 Super Bowl, leading some to argue that if he were indeed Nakamoto, he would unlikely be so overt about it.

(Cryptocurrency operators and ETF issuers absent from Super Bowl ads, Jack Dorsey wears Satoshi Nakamoto t-shirt to spread the word)
Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp criticized Murray for being quite irresponsible, as this could make Dorsey a target worldwide and even affect his family:
“Even if this person has passed away, you could still put his family in danger.”

The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains a mystery
Murray claims to have spent over two months researching this evidence, meticulously documenting it in his 15 deCashed articles, while Dorsey has yet to respond or deny these claims.
This is not the first time someone has attempted to uncover Nakamoto’s true identity. In 2023, an HBO documentary claimed that Canadian computer scientist Peter Todd was Nakamoto, but this theory did not gain widespread support.

(HBO reveals Satoshi Nakamoto! Canadian developer accused of being Bitcoin’s creator, Peter Todd: I am not Satoshi Nakamoto)
Additionally, Hal Finney, Adam Back, and American cryptographer Nick Szabo have also been suspected of being Nakamoto.

(Is there more than one Satoshi Nakamoto? Adam Cochran: Hal Finney was merely a key figure behind Nakamoto)
As time passes, the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains a mystery, and whether Jack Dorsey is indeed connected to the birth of Bitcoin continues to lack conclusive evidence.

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