BREAKING: Has Jack Dorsey Been Exposed as Bitcoin’s Mysterious Creator Satoshi Nakamoto?
Rumors explode as crypto sleuths connect dots between Twitter's founder and Bitcoin's anonymous genesis.
### The Dorsey Dossier: Coincidence or Smoking Gun?
Fresh blockchain forensics suggest eerie parallels between Dorsey's early cryptography work and Satoshi's white paper timestamps. Former Square engineers whisper about 'off-the-books' projects in 2008.
### Silicon Valley's Worst-Kept Secret?
VCs quietly point to Dorsey's obsessive focus on decentralized payment systems—years before Cash App embraced Bitcoin. 'Jack always played 4D chess with infrastructure,' claims one ex-board member.
### Wall Street Snarks While Crypto Burns
As the theory trends, hedge fund managers mockingly short BTC—'because nothing pumps a fake identity like Wall Street desperation.' Meanwhile, the real Satoshi's untouched 1M BTC stash keeps appreciating through the drama.
Whether proof or parody, one truth remains: fourteen years later, Nakamoto's creation still outsmarts everyone trying to claim it.
Could Jack Dorsey Be Satoshi Nakamoto?
Jack Dorsey was born in 1976 in St. Louis. At just 15, he wrote a dispatch software used by taxi companies for years. He dropped out of college, moved to California, and by 2006, created Twitter. His first tweet has become an iconic phrase, reading: “just setting up my twttr.”
Since the early 2010s, Dorsey has been an enormous proponent of decentralization. He admired cypherpunks like Adam Back. He wore RSA shirts in the 90s, long before the idea of Bitcoin even existed. And when BTC appeared in 2009, he became one of its earliest high-profile endorsers.
In 2009, Jack Dorsey built Square, which started as a simple card reader. Under his leadership, the company rebranded to Block in 2021 and quickly became one of Bitcoin’s most prominent corporate supporters.
Dorsey’s endorsement of Bitcoin from within his business dealings came long before 2021, as Block (Square at the time) integrated BTC into its Cash App in January 2021 and, around the same time, began funding open-source blockchain developers with Block’s Bitcoin arm, Spiral.
In a Bitcoin TV podcast with Strategy (formerly Micro Strategy) founder Michael Saylor, Jack Dorsey said Bitcoin will “unite a divided world”, going as far as saying that fixing money could even bring world peace.
Many Mysteries And Coincidences Fuel The Dorsey Being Satoshi Theories
In 2009, the year Bitcoin was created, the intriguing mystery began regarding the theories that Jack Dorsey is Satoshi Nakamoto. Around this time, many people started noticing strange overlaps with Dorsey’s life.
To begin, the first Bitcoin transaction was on Dorsey’s mother’s birthday, and the last block Satoshi ever mined was on his father’s birthday. Finally, the Satoshi BTC forum account was created on November 19, Dorsey’s own birthday.
Also in 2009, Satoshi once entered an IRC channel without masking his IP, which traced back to California. At that time, Dorsey was living and working in San Francisco, California.
Then, five years later, in 2014, a hacker of Satoshi’s email claimed he was from St. Louis, which is, coincidentally, Jack Dorsey’s hometown.
There are more, smaller nuggets of information that support the theory. For one, Dorsey is believed to have worn Adam Back’s RSA shirts throughout the 90s.
Dr. Adam Back originally introduced the RSA shirt design in 1995 in protest of the US government classifying the RSA encryption code as a munition and illegal to export to non-US citizens. The shirt featured a five-line encryption software program on the front and clauses from the US Bill of Rights on the back. By doing so, he had shown the importance of code as free speech.
Finally, Jack Dorsey is alleged to have traveled to Japan weeks before Bitcoin.org was registered, and he wrote in 2001 about “leaving a mark on the world without leaving a trace,” which is seen by many as exactly what Satoshi Nakamoto intended with his creation of Bitcoin.
Dorsey Himself Has Refuted Claims That He Is Satoshi.. Kind Of
Jack Dorsey mostly denied speculation that he is the infamous Bitcoin creator. In a 2020 podcast interview with Lex Fridman, he smiled and said, “No. And if I was, WOULD I tell you?”
Many experts agree and have dismissed the theory as a pure coincidence. Those who refute the Dorsey being Satoshi suggestions are quick to point out that, unlike most cypherpunks of his era, he was an extremely public individual who posted what he was up to on nearly an hourly basis.
To put into context, around the time Bitcoin was officially launched (2009 and 2010), Jack Dorsey posted over 6,200 tweets, providing a significantly larger dataset to work with compared to Satoshi, who created fewer than 1,000 timestamped events during the same period.
During that same period of 2009 & 2010, Jack Dorsey was not only Chairman of the Board of Twitter, but also the CEO of the then fledgling startup Square. He would have been an extremely busy person, not only overseeing multiple companies but also traveling around the world, meeting important people, doing press interviews, speaking at conferences, promoting philanthropic causes, and more.
As a result, his activities do not fit the profile of someone who had the time and mental bandwidth to build an entirely new financial system from scratch while maintaining perfect anonymity. Dorsey is, nonetheless, another fun candidate for the man behind the Satoshi Nakamoto mask.
