The biggest mysteries in the Bitcoin community are one, where will the price go, and two, who exactly is Satoshi Nakamoto. Recently, there was an interesting hypothesis—could this guy be an AI traveling back from the future? It sounds pretty far-fetched at first, but upon closer thought, it’s actually quite intriguing.

In 2008, during the global financial crisis, before the dust had settled, Satoshi Nakamoto suddenly released the Bitcoin white paper. In that document, complex concepts like distributed ledgers, cryptography, and consensus mechanisms were woven into a functioning system, solving the long-standing double-spending problem in the industry. That requires deep expertise and foresight.

Even more bizarre is that he disappeared completely after 2011. Over ten years have passed, and the Bitcoin ecosystem has become increasingly sophisticated, yet the architecture he left behind remains relevant. The Bitcoin addresses holding hundreds of billions of dollars have never moved. How could an ordinary person hide their identity so thoroughly? How could someone design such an advanced system?

Could it really be a genius team, or some entity from the future? What does everyone think—real person, collective intelligence, or something else? Share your thoughts in the comments.