The true identity of Bitcoin’s creator remains a mystery almost 10 years after the cryptocurrency was brought into being.

Now Satoshi Nakamoto has mysteriously resurfaced to deliver a cryptic one-word message.

A profile on the Peer to Peer (P2P) website belonging to the pseudonymous genius has been updated for the first time in several years.

He posted a message containing the world ‘nour’ in quotation marks, which means ‘light’ in Arabic.


Mystery still surrounds the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto (Picture: Getty)

Nakamoto also followed a man living in Brazil called Wagner Tamanaha, who describes himself as a cryptocurrency enthusiast.

‘Looks like Satoshi’s reappeared and I’m being investigated,’ he tweeted.



Professor Craig Wright, a crypto entrepreneur identified as the man behind the Satoshi mask, then wrote several tweets in Arabic, adding to the growing mystery.

‘The light haunts the darkness,’ one message said, according to Google Translate.

‘The light of the world in trade,’ Wright added.

نور العالم في التجارة pic.twitter.com/hG8SoKe9i6 — Dr Craig S Wright (@ProfFaustus) November 30, 2018

We wrote to Tamanaha and asked what was going on. But the Brazilian seemed just as bewildered as everyone else.

He said: ‘I’m surprised too. Approximately one year ago I made a request for his friendship on P2P Foundation and it was accepted today.

‘I made that request because I was influenced by another Brazilian that is listed on Satoshi’s P2P Foundation account called Casagrande.

‘He was accepted as his friend in 2014 and he is an active user on Steemit [a blockchain social network].

‘I’m also the author of the Blockchain Cat comics on Steemit. I don’t know if that’s related?’

A chart showing the rise and fall of Bitcoin over the course of its lifetime (Picture: Coindesk)

In 2014, Nakamoto’s P2P page was hacked, so there’s a chance this could be a stunt of some kind.

He is estimated to hold up to one million coins, which works out to roughly £3billion.

If there was any change of Nakamoto selling his Bitcoin stash, the market would probably crash.

In the absence of any concrete information, cryptocurrency investors are making wild speculation about what this all could mean.

‘Maybe “nour” is a secret signal CIA was waiting for to start the global Bitcoin offensive their sleeper agent Satoshi planted 10 years ago,’ a Reddit user wrote jokingly.

‘People will believe whatever they want to believe.’

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Others suggested it was a message about the future of Bitcoin and the currencies which been ‘forked’ from it.

A fork is a name for a process in which a virtual coin is split into two or more new currencies.

Virtual denominations use a digital ledger called the blockchain, which is like a tree that records all transactions and allows them to be traced back to the original ‘genesis block’.

When something goes wrong or new features are added to a currency, it can then be forked to create a new currency which blossoms into its own new branch.

The most famous forked currency is Bitcoin Cash, which was created in August 2017 when a group of Bitcoin miners announced that they would create a new currency which makes trading faster and easier.



Bitcoin Cash was also split into two recently, with Bitcoin ABC competing against Bitcoin SV, which is championed by Craig Wright.

Basically, the rabbit hole is deep and there’s no end in sight.