Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used to announce the Bitcoin paper on October 31, 2008. The mailing-list message is a contemporary record; claims about the real person or people behind that name require different evidence.
From proposal to program
The January 2009 release announcement offered experimental Windows software and its C++ source. It described a peer-to-peer cash network and a declining schedule for new coins. This is a concrete software contribution, distinct from later speculation about nationality, occupation, or personal wealth.
Stepping away
Gavin Andresen later published an April 26, 2011 email exchange in which Satoshi said they had moved to other work and provided the network’s alert key. This supports an account of handing over a maintenance responsibility. It does not mean that one developer became Bitcoin’s owner. The evidence is an exchange published by Andresen, and should be identified as such.
What a court did establish
In the 2024 COPA v Wright judgment, the High Court of England and Wales found that Craig Wright was not the author of the Bitcoin white paper, the person operating under the Satoshi pseudonym in 2008–2011, the creator of the Bitcoin system, or the author of its initial software. Read the judgment.
Those findings reject specific claims. They do not identify Satoshi. This profile does not turn stylistic similarities, coincidences, or wallet estimates into proof of an identity.