Elon Musk's theory about the creator of bitcoin: Nonsense or something plausible?

The history of the beginning of bitcoin is linked by many unknowns . The main one, who is its founder or founders, which has always been protected under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto .

Well, Elon Musk, in his usual tongue-in-cheek tone on Twitter , seems to have found a certain theory. The Tesla and SpaceX tycoon shared an image on his favorite social network that pointed out that if you take the first letters of the four great electronics giants Samsung, Toshiba, Nakamichi and Motorola, you end up with the name "Satoshi Nakamoto".

The image actually comes from a blog that in a 2017 post took this a step further, joking about the idea that aliens were after Bitcoin and these companies.

But beyond this half-joke - you never know when Musk is actually joking or not - the Tesla co-founder has other theories closer to what it could be .

Musk's ideas about the creator of bitcoin

In late 2021, Musk floated the idea that Nick Szabo , a computer scientist who pioneered smart contracts in the mid-2000s and laid the foundation for digital currencies, is "probably" the creator of bitcoin. He did so in an interview with MIT researcher and broadcaster Lex Fridman. Szabo, however, denied in 2017 that he is the real Satoshi.

The mystery of the identity of bitcoin's elusive creator was also the subject of a court case in November 2021 , when the family of the late David Kleinman sued Australian programmer Craig Wright, who has become famous for claiming, almost certainly without foundation, that he is the real Satoshi.

Although we will probably never know for sure, the photo shared by Musk may be an example that, at a given moment, a programmer needed an alias and did so by taking those of these electronics giants.