In the past few years, smart contracts and blockchain oracles have changed the crypto industry, and a special project called Chainlink is the most widespread oracle network to date. Another interesting feature of Chainlink is the creator of the project, Sergey Nazarov, who has recently been a Satoshi Nakamoto suspect. Over the past year, a number of reports sought to prove that Nazarov could be the creator of Bitcoin, using circumstantial evidence and speculation.
Chainlink founder Sergey Nazarov is considered a Satoshi suspect
For the past several years, news.Bitcoin.com has written extensively about what some people consider to be the biggest secret in the cryptocurrency space. A large number of annoyances are looking for Satoshi Nakamoto and the whereabouts of all the bitcoins that the creator mined when the network started.
Our news desk has also compiled a comprehensive list of all of Satoshi Nakamoto’s suspects. The latest on our list is a current theory. Last year, some reports and a Youtube video highlighted the possibility that Chainlink (LINK) creator Sergey Nazarov could be the inventor of Bitcoin.
A report authored by UX Sequence (uxsequence.io) gives a comprehensive rundown of all of the evidence allegedly linking Nazarov to the creation of Bitcoin. The following is the tenth episode in the Satoshi Nakamoto series, “The Many Facts” from news.Bitcoin.com.
32-year-old Sergey Nazarov (pictured left) was seen as a suspect in the hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto. The picture on the right shows all the interesting areas of Nazarov. Smartcontract.com was created six days before the Bitcoin whitepaper was published.
At least, speculators believe that Sergey Nazarov was around, at least during Satoshi’s incubation period. Nazarov is currently 32 years old and his parents are Russian immigrants who immigrated to New York.
Chainlink is a popular asset as it currently has the ninth largest market valuation at the time of writing. Basically the project is a decentralized Oracle network and the protocol connects smart contracts to a number of external elements and APIs. The project started in 2017, but is said to have originally been founded in 2014 by Steve Ellis and Nazarov. Chainlink is used by many organizations including Open Law, Web3 Foundation, Google, SWIFT, Zeppelin, and a host of others.
Smartcontract.com registered 6 days before the Bitcoin white paper is published
The first evidence linking Nazarov to the creation of Bitcoin is the fact that the Chainlink creator bought the domain smartcontract.com six days before Satoshi’s white paper was published on Halloween 2008. The website is currently linked to the Chainlink (LINK). Web portal, and to take a look at the history, you have to use archive.org.
Nowadays smartcontract.com redirects visitors to the Chainlink website, but this is how it looked years ago.
The creation of the web portal days ago is hardly a smoking weapon to suggest that Nazarov is Satoshi, but it is interesting evidence. However, hypotheses believe that it is also strange that Sergey Nazarov and Satoshi Nakamoto have the same initials.
Additionally, in October 2020, Nazarov appeared in a video with Chainlink’s Ben Chan explaining how long he has been into blockchain. During the video, Nazarov says he’s been in the blockchain space for ten years and then corrects himself. If that were the case, between the ages of 21 and 22, Nazarov would have been working on Bitcoin during the same period as Nakamoto.
QED Capital and the Russian proxy
Nazarov also owns a number of blockchain-related domains that were registered in the early days. While smartcontract.com was registered on October 25, 2008, a website called trustororacles.com was registered in April 2016. Other website domains show that Nazarov has a strong connection with a Russian company called QED Capital.
In June 2020, financial reporter Michael Kapilkov discovered that the first version of Bitcoin (v0.1.0) contains a Russian proxy.
Nazarov registered a few QED Capital websites in 2012, and the company was behind two of its previous Secure Asset Exchange (SAE) and Crypto Mail projects. Believers in today’s Nazarov-Nakamoto theory have drawn attention to the recent discovery, which shows that Satoshi Nakamoto allegedly used a Russian proxy to hide his location and identity.
QED Capital’s website, where Nazarov acts as a director and company, is also mentioned in Nazarov’s original Whois filing on smartcontract.com.
The story of Kokichi Mikimoto and the perfectly spherical cultured pearls
In addition to its links with QED Capital, speculators also refer to a unique metaphor that Nazarov published in 2013 about a person named “Kokichi Mikimoto”.
According to the story, Mikimoto created super-spherical beads, or pearls that are smoother than they are today. Mikimoto beads were also grown and the entire metaphor is eerily similar to the story of Satoshi Nakamoto.
“In 1878, Kokichi Mikimoto discovered how to produce superior pearls through artificial pearl cultivation. His pearls / products turned out to be better than the majority of the best pearls found in natural conditions, ”wrote Nazarov at the time. “He made this discovery without training in the ‘natural sciences’ and basically got his innovative results through costly trial and error.” Nazarov story continued:
Prior to its discovery, the vast majority of pearls did not even appear spherical to the naked eye. Today 90% of all pearls sold are made according to his method to produce seemingly perfectly spherical “cultured pearls”.
Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov isn’t the only cryptocurrency developer accused of being Satoshi Nakamoto. Hal Finney was reportedly the mysterious creator, and a stylometry study also pointed a finger at Gavin Andresen. The creator of the first cryptocurrency to prove the use and the peercoin network Sunny King was a suspect. In addition, the pseudonymous Grin founder Ignotus Peverell was also a candidate in the summer of 2019.
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