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Few details are known about the private creator of Bitcoin, and new evidence might reveal why. Analysis of early Bitcoin code hints that Satoshi Nakamoto may have relied on a Russian proxy server to mask his location.<\/p>\n
According to a report from Cointelegraph, a section in Bitcoin's early code exhibits signs of obfuscation via the possible use of a cipher.<\/p>\n
The apparent cipher appears within a file dubbed \"Bitcoin v0.1.0 irc.cppm. The latter part refers to Bitcoin's Internet Relay Chat channels. The code apparently links to a proxy IP address associated with the now-defunct Russian Internet service provider Anders Telecom. Much like a VPN, a proxy hides the physical location of an IP address.<\/p>\n
The inclination is that Nakamoto may have used a Russian Proxy server to avoid detection. Tracing the IP address apparently pulls up a user named \"Sergey,\" employing the same proxy as Satoshi. Per the report, Sergey posted reviews of hotels in Vietnam in December 2008 and January 2009.<\/p>\n
Not everyone is convinced that the findings actually mean anything.<\/p>\n
\"The whole story reminds me a little 'you can make statistics say anything you want.' For me it's a simple reminder about the expected format of some variable in order to know how to process it later and take it at random,\" CTO of GEODB Javier Estrella told Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n
Still, the conversations between Satoshi and early members of the Bitcoin community seem to indicate that IRC was used in conjunction with identity obfuscation.<\/p>\n
As for why Satoshi would use a Russian proxy, in particular, it may have something to do with Russia's disconnect from western intelligence agencies. Either that or Satoshi was a Russian named Sergey. Now that would be a twist.<\/p>\n
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