Bernard O'Shea: The mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto and a little bit of Bitcoin

Ordinary non-billionaires are willing to throw the crocodile a little bit of food from a healthy distance but don't trust it enough to shove a significant big chunk of meat down its gullet

Statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, a presumed pseudonym used by the inventor of Bitcoin in Budapest, Hungary. Picture: Janos Kummer/Getty Images

The BBC show Top Gear could rightly claim one of the world's most googled phrases: "Who is the Stig?" That has been replaced in the last few years by: "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?"

Satoshi Nakamoto is accredited with the invention of blockchain currency bitcoin. However, we have no definite evidence as to who it is. According to Investopedia, "The name Satoshi Nakamoto is often synonymous with Bitcoin, the actual person that the name represents has never been found, leading many people to believe that it is a pseudonym for a person with a different identity or a group of people".