Satoshi Nakamoto, the unknown creator of Bitcoin, is already one of the 50 richest people on the planet

Satoshi Nakamoto is already one of the fifty richest people on the planet according to the latest update of the Forbes list of millionaires. Nobody knows for sure who the father or mother of Bitcoin is, but the growing value of his creation, which has reached $20,000 this weekend, has been enough to put this person or people on the list.

It is estimated that Nakamoto-san must have about 980,000 bitcoins to his credit, so he/they should have a personal fortune of about $19.4 billion in his or her assets according to Forbes' calculations.

This puts you at 44th place among the richest people on the planet. It's just below personalities like Stefan Persson, the son of H&M creator Stefan Persson, the widow of Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, or Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Under Nakamoto, on the other hand, we have billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an investor of the Saudi royal family, or Theo Albrecht Jr., heir to the German retailer Aldi.

Just after reaching $20,000 in value the Bitcoin dropped to almost $18,000, and is now approaching $19,000 again. Despite these changes, its value would still place Nakamoto-san among the world's 50 richest people. Not bad for the owner of a cryptomoney whose value, at the beginning of this year, was just $1,000.

Okay, but who's Satoshi Nakamoto?

It seems untrue that the identity of the creator or creator of one of the most revolutionary technologies of recent decades is still unknown, but so it is. In the last few years we have thought we have met several people who said or were said that they could be the parents of cryptomoneda and blockchain, but none of the cases has been achieved any absolute certainty.

A couple of years ago and after several alleged Nakamotos, Wired and Gizmodo reported that they had indications that Satoshi Nakamoto was actually a former scholar named Craig Steven Wright. It was deduced after a joint investigation between the two media.

His research began when a researcher named Gwern Branwen published several studies related to cryptomonedas. Among the documentation he presented were several e-mails in which, trying to avoid any attention on him, they pointed out that Wright had a fortune in Bitcoins.

Shortly after this information came out, Wright himself presented himself to the press to say yes, he was Satoshi Nakamoto, but the evidence he presented was clearly insufficient. Not being able to prove himself as Nakamoto-san, many called him a fraud, although he has since then taken advantage of this uncertainty to publicize some of his business initiatives based on the blockchain.

Therefore, today we know without knowing who created Bitcoin, and with everyone going crazy about the way in which the value of cryptomoney has soared, it seems difficult for us to have a secure answer. In fact, the question we are increasingly asking ourselves is whether we will ever really know who Satoshi Nakamoto really is.