Major Contributor Behind Bitcoin’s Codebase Answers Questions About The Creation Of Cryptocurrency

Meet Jeff Garzik – one of the earliest contributors to the Bitcoin codebase and later a lead developer at BitPay. In the latest crypto news, we have Garzik and his attempt to reveal something that everyone of us is asking themselves – who created Bitcoin?

The truth is, no one knows, and even Garzik is clueless about this. In an interview with Bloomberg, he spoke to his suspicions of the actual creator of Bitcoin. Basically, Garzik’s theory revolves around Nick Szabo, Adam Back and a group of people involving these people as the major contenders for the title of Satoshi Nakamoto.

Currently, there are a lot of people who believe that the Australian outlier Craig S. Wright who is spearheading the Bitcoin SV (“Satoshi Vision”) hard fork in 6 days is actually the person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

Garzik told Bloomberg that his “personal theory” revolves around Dave Kleiman who is a Florida man who passed away in 2013 and whose estate is currently engaged in a lawsuit against Craig S. Wright – as the man behind Bitcoin.

Wright had worked with Kleiman, who was a computer security expert. As one report reveals:

“Kleiman and Wright had allegedly acquired these coins by mining them through W&K Info Defense Research LLC. The ownership structure of W&K is in dispute, though Kleiman’s estate claims that he was either the sole owner or held it in partnership with Wright. Either way, they claim that Wright stole at least 550,000 BTC, or 1.1 million if W&K was wholly owned by Kleiman.”

As Garzik notes, this is where the dots connect and paint a picture of Kleiman being Satoshi. The self-taught coder, according to Garzik, “was someone who was very, very smart, but not a classically trained software engineer.”