Software engineering intern at SpaceX reveals the name of Bitcoin creator.Read to Know

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Bitcoin -- which recently reached a jaw-dropping value of more than $9,000 --

but do we know who exactly created the cryptocurrency?.

Satoshi Nakamoto is listed as the author of the original paper describing Bitcoin, but no actual person, or group, has come out to say they are Nakamoto.

Sahil Gupta, a software engineering intern at SpaceX, recently wrote a Medium post making a case that Satoshi Nakamoto is none other than

Elon Musk

What's Gupta's evidence for this claim?

Nothing concrete, but his logic is relatively sound. The original 2008 Bitcoin paper was written by someone "with a deep understanding of economics and cryptography," which Gupta says Musk possesses. Musk is also a master of coding language C++, the language Bitcoin was written in, Gupta says.

Gupta then points to this 2014 tweet from Musk as a possible coy confession that he created Bitcoin.

But, my favorite piece of Gupta's argument is this: "Would Elon choose a pseudonym that's an anagram for 'So a man took a shit?' Of course.

It's not much to go on, but it's certainly an interesting hypothesis. What do you think? Did Elon Musk create Bitcoin? Share your thoughts in the comments section.

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