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Latest ‘Satoshi’ reveal turns into a debacle: Meet Stephen Mollah

Stephen Mollah is the latest to claim he invented Bitcoin, and a London event to show proof of the claim was reportedly “hilarious and heart-breaking.”

Sporting a colorful turban, camouflage pattern pants, a black suit and a long gray beard — a man named Stephen Mollah has become the latest character claiming to have invented Bitcoin. 

On Oct. 31, around a dozen journalists gathered at the Front Line Club (they have denied endorsing or being affiliated with the event) after being promised they’ll be able to finally meet the real Satoshi Nakamoto.

And for just a low-low price of $644 (500 British pounds) a pop.

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Stacks’ smart contracts reach record high ahead of Nakamoto upgrade

Stacks hit a record of over 1,400 monthly smart contract deployments ahead of the Nakamoto upgrade, which is set to revolutionize Bitcoin DeFi and scalability.

Stacks reached a new all-time high in smart contract deployment just days before the much-anticipated Nakamoto upgrade is fully activated. 

Stacks, the Bitcoin network’s smart contract layer, reached a new all-time high of over 1,400 monthly smart contracts deployed.

Stacks announced the record high in a Sept. 7 X post:

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Altcoin That’s Up Nearly 95% in a Month Could See Boost From Upgrade This Year: Pantera Portfolio Manager

Altcoin That’s Up Nearly 95% in a Month Could See Boost From Upgrade This Year: Pantera Portfolio Manager

Cosmo Jiang, a portfolio manager at digital assets-focused hedge fund Pantera Capital, is highlighting one crypto project that could witness an explosion in activity this year. Stacks (STX) aims to enable smart contracts and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications on Bitcoin (BTC). The project’s native token, STX, is up nearly 95% in the past month. Jiang […]

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A ‘Tremendous Variety of Possible Transaction Types’ — A Look at the Conversation Between Nakamoto and Andresen

A ‘Tremendous Variety of Possible Transaction Types’ — A Look at the Conversation Between Nakamoto and AndresenThe Bitcoin mempool, otherwise known as the network’s transaction backlog, is still clogged with over 390,000 transactions waiting to be processed by miners. To clear the mempool, more than 190 blocks need to be mined. As the scaling issues continue to plague the network, a conversation between former Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen and the network’s […]

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Google Trends Data Shows Bitcoin Search Interest Surged This Week Amid 10-Month Price High

Google Trends Data Shows Bitcoin Search Interest Surged This Week Amid 10-Month Price HighAccording to worldwide data from Google Trends, the search term “bitcoin” has reached a score of 93 out of 100 in the last seven days. Additionally, the price of bitcoin rose above the $30,000 range for the first time in ten months, or since June 2022. Bitcoin Search Interest Rises as Leading Crypto Asset Taps […]

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Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Turns 48 Today, Coinciding With the Anniversary of FDR’s US Gold Ban

Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Turns 48 Today, Coinciding With the Anniversary of FDR’s US Gold BanAccording to the P2P Foundation forum, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, has ostensibly turned 48 today on April 5, 2023. More than 14 years ago, Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin to the forum members, noting that the inventor “developed a new open-source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin.” The Significance of April 5 in the History […]

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Sleuth Discovers Satoshi’s Long-Lost Bitcoin Version 0.1 Codebase, Raw Code Contains Bitcoin Inventor’s Never-Before-Seen Personal Notations

Sleuth Discovers Satoshi’s Long-Lost Bitcoin Version 0.1 Codebase, Raw Code Contains Bitcoin Inventor’s Never-Before-Seen Personal NotationsOn October 7, 2022, a bitcoin supporter named Jim Blasko explained that he discovered the oldest upload of Bitcoin’s version 0.1 codebase. The original code was thought to have been lost for more than a decade and with a “little browser hacking” Blasko was able to find the lost version 0.1 raw data and files […]

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Pinning the Tail on Satoshi Nakamoto — How Journalists Erroneously Used Circumstantial Evidence Over the Years to Identify Bitcoin’s Creator

Pinning the Tail on Satoshi Nakamoto — How Journalists Erroneously Used Circumstantial Evidence Over the Years to Identify Bitcoin’s CreatorThe search for Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s mysterious inventor, has been an ongoing hunt for the last 13 years. Since 2014, dozens of so-called candidates have appeared, but none of them have convinced the greater community that they are Bitcoin’s creator. Furthermore, journalists from publications like Newsweek have pointed to a few specific individuals, and nearly […]

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Satoshi Nakamoto Dropped From the World’s 20th Richest Billionaire to the 79th in 8 Months

Satoshi Nakamoto Dropped From the World’s 20th Richest Billionaire to the 79th in 8 MonthsIn mid-November 2021, Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto was one of the wealthiest individuals on the planet, with more than $69 billion in bitcoin, and was among the top 20 on the Forbes 2021 Billionaires list. Seven months have passed since then, and Bitcoin’s unknown creator has dropped from the top 20 spot and is now […]

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13 Years Ago Today, Satoshi Nakamoto Published the First Forum Post Introducing Bitcoin

13 Years Ago Today, Satoshi Nakamoto Published the First Forum Post Introducing Bitcoin13 years ago today, the creator of the Bitcoin network, Satoshi Nakamoto published the inventor’s first forum post on the P2P Foundation website. The forum post called “Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency” introduced the e-cash system to the members of the advocacy and research forum focused on peer-to-peer dynamics in society. The First […]

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