Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? Anonymity, Identity Theories and the Bitcoin Holdings

What the evidence says about Satoshi’s identity, one-person and group theories, possible motives for anonymity, and the limits of million-bitcoin holdings estimates. Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym attached to Bitcoin's whitepaper, first software and early development. It is not a publicly verified civil identity. The surviving record does not establish whether the name belonged to one person or a small group, what gender that person or those people were, or who can access any associated private keys today. The coin question is almost as uncertain as the identity question.