Quote:WAS A BRIT THE MYSTERIOUS INVENTOR OF KLEPTOCURRENCY?

April 13, 2026 / Joseph P. Farrell

For those of you who have been following the weird story of how cryptocurrencies and block chains and distributed ledgers were invented by the mysterious Japanese inventor/programmer Satoski Nakamoto (or as I like to refer to the story on this website: how klepto-currencies were invented by the mysterious Sockittome Harakiri), then this installment will surely intrigue you, as it does me. In fact, the article provokes all sorts of high octane speculation scenarios and my usual nosedive off the twig of the speculation tree into the floor of Speculation Canyon below. The story was spotted and shared by one of our regular article contributors, S.D., for which we are grateful:

Investigation Reveals Who Is the British Computer Scientist Believed To Be Bitcoin’s Secret Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto

The article begins, aptly enough, with a review of all the theories and speculations about who Sockittome Harakiri/Satoshi Nakamoto may have been, a glance at which will reveal that any high octane speculations as I might add are likely to be rather bland by comparison:

Quote:For nearly two decades, the world lived with a mystery regarding the creation of one of the most widespread assets in the world’s economy.

During this time, endless theories have arisen about the real identity of the secret inventor who hides under the name Satoshi Nakamoto.

Some are really out there, like Satoshi Nakamoto is a time traveler, or else an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) from the future; that he is an extraterrestrial alien, or the Antichrist.

Some say Satoshi is actually Jeffrey Epstein, or Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, or Jack Dorsey.

Some are certain that Bitcoin was created by the NSA or CIA.

Others say it is a creation by the Illuminati (or ‘the Jews’), or else by Chinese government operatives, or even a rogue group of US government cryptographers.

Ok, so who is Sockittome Harakiri/Satoshi Nakamoto supposed to be?

Quote:“Adam Back, a 55-year-old programmer born in London, was identified after a year-long investigation by the New York Times into the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.

The identity of ‘Satoshi’ – an online pseudonym used by the person who created Bitcoin – has been a mystery ever since the digital currency was created 18 years ago, despite multiple attempts to unmask them.

But wait, the story is not over. Mr. Back emphatically denies that he is in fact Sockittome Harakiri/Satoshi Nakamoto. But what is very intriguing is that the year-long-plus investigation by the New York Times was conducted by this fellow:

Quote:Nakamoto Investigator

Now, for those of you who clicked on the link and learned that it was John Carreyrou that unearthed Mr. Back, you might be wondering "where have I heard that name before?" And the answer is, that Carreyrou is the author of the book Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, a book about Elizabeth Holmes and her startup company, Theranos, remember her? Holmes was once the darling of the early morning talk show circuit, an articulate, intelligent, and pretty woman who had started a multi-billion dollar company called Theranos, based around an idea: a simple home-based unit that could test your blood from a very small sample for virtually every kind of disease known to humanity, and analyze the small sample and spit out the results. It was - had it worked - a veritable revolution in medicine, and not surprisingly, the defense department and military industrial complex, along with other members of The High and the Mighty Club, quickly piled into Theranos with donations-for-stock swaps and to become members of the board.

You might recall I blogged a great deal about the Theranos/Holmes story, including my suspicions that there was much more to the story than mere fraud. At the time I was entertaining the idea that the fraud part of the story may have been a narrative concocted to allow The High and the Mighty Club simply to steal the technology. (I still have that view: see the following stories on this website and ponder their implications vs the Theranos "narrative" very carefully: [1] https://gizadeathstar.com/2019/09/update-that-strange-theranos-story-and-its-optical-patents/  ; [2] https://gizadeathstar.com/2019/12/theranos-upstaged-by-toshiba/ ; [3] https://gizadeathstar.com/2019/10/update-optical-phase-conjugation-biological-tissue-and-theranos/ )

All of this brings us back to Mr. Carreyrou's arguments that Mr. Back might be the mysterious Sockittome Harakiri/Satoshi Nakamoto. One thing emerges very clearly from the Bitcoin/klepto-currency story: it is highly unlikely, in my opinion, that the multi-billion if not multi-trillion dollar swindle that is crypto-currency did not emerge out of the skull of one obscure programmer, Japanese, British, or otherwise, without an infrastructure of support ready to go. Like Theranos, the klepto-currency phenomenon now has all sorts of financial vultures swirling around overhead, from the chinless wonder of the Bank of International Swag Settlements, Augustin Carstens, to Mr. Trump and various members of his family involved in the USA's "sovereign wealth fund", which, per Mr. Trump's wishes, will have much of its assets in klepto-currencies.

A British involvement in such a scheme would thus be entirely predictable, and reasonable to expect, given the identities of some of those swirling vultures. Indeed, the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, the Bank of England herself, has come out on more than one occasion with various ideas for implementing a "cashless" society, central bank digital currencies, and has thus hinted at the use of klepto-currencies as an intermediary step. Mr. Back has denied that he is the mysterious Sockittome Harakiri/Satoshi Nakamoto. But we should not be surprised to find British members in the klepto-club. In fact, Carreyrou may have given us a profound clue: maybe one should look closer at Theranos' board of directors. Indeed, the article itself suggests that many individuals have been plausibly identified as the mysterious Sockittome Harakiri/Satoshi Nakamoto.  Perhaps that is itself a clue, and if so, a profound one:


Perhaps Mr. Nakamoto was never the pseudonym of an individual, but of a group. And if that be possible, perhaps all of the suggestions and speculations might, in some sense, be true.

Or to put it country simple: we need to completely rethink our approach to the Nakamoto identity problem. We need to look for a network of people, not an individual.

See you on the flip side...