Researcher Varun Mathur believes that the GoldLover Twitter account belongs to the creator of Bitcoin. Some followers question the veracity of that account and consider it to be a bot.
A Twitter user, identified as Varum_Mathur, recently came across a series of tweets that may have come from an anonymous account of Satoshi Nakamoto. The author of those messages wrote them shortly before the launch of the first cryptocurrency.
Varum Mathur presented his analysis of the discovery of the GoldLover account (@fafcffacfff). He also showed a wall of tweets that he described as interesting, which aroused the interest of some Twitter users.
It is public knowledge that the release of the Bitcoin white paper occurred on October 31st, 2008. A day earlier, @fafcffacfff tweeted the following: “However, we know that throughout history no fiat currency has survived”.
By way of reflection, Varun posted this question: “Could it be a coincidence that one day before the publication of the Bitcoin white paper, someone thought of interrupting the issuance of fiat money?”
The researcher refers to an e-mail that Satoshi sent on February 11th, 2009. The creator of Bitcoin claims that “the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches.” Nakamoto questions the functioning of central banks and centralized money issuance, which he posted on bictoin.org.
That was the second Twitter account to post a note on the availability of Bitcoin’s code in January 2009. Previously, programmer Hal Finney had announced that “Bitcoin [was] running.” Finney received the first 10 BTC in the history of the pioneering cryptocurrency, which happened on January 12th, 2009.
According to Varun, Satoshi and Hal Finney were the only Bitcoin users on that date. He noted that many onlookers came across another tweet on GoldLover, dated January 29th, 2009, but dismissed it as insignificant. It read: “From: Satoshi Nakamoto-2009-01-11 22:31 Bitcoin v0.1.2 is now available for d.”
Although Varun has not found the exact location of the account @fafcffacfff, he notes that there was another tweet on the same day. In it, GoldLover adds that “(Bitcoin) is completely decentralized, with no server or trusted parties.”
Questioning of the Veracity of the Account
Varun left the thread open to comments from skeptics and concluded his posts by saying that Sathoshi Nakamoto was very expressive. Some tweeters questioned this assumption, considering that his writings were few.
One of the readers of the note states that Satoshi moved away from the ecosystem after the conviction of Bernard von NotHaus for creating Liberty Dollar. He claims that US federal authorities persecuted Liberty Dollar, which triggered Satoshi’s anonymity. He says that “this Twitter account is red herring”, that is, he considers it to be a fallacy.
One commenter views the work as interesting but thinks that the Twitter account was tracking content that related to gold. Therefore, he found things about Bitcoin after the release of the white paper on a forum on this topic. “There was a lot of overlap between the gold bug and Bitcoin communities in those days,” he notes. Grin developer David Burkett proposed the same idea on Twitter.
Other followers suspiciously say that they believe that “the account is just a bot.” In that way, he also raises questions as to whether the account belongs to Satoshi Nakamoto.
At the time of writing this article, the price of Bitcoin is around USD 49,000. Its trading volume in the last 24 hours is USD 114 billion and its market capitalization exceeds USD 911 billion.
By Alexander Salazar
