The identity of Bitcoin’s creator is crypto’s best mystery. Now, certainly one of the industry’s biggest names is floating its wildest theory yet.
In a recent interview with Turkish influencers, former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao suggested that Bitcoin may not have been created by a human in any respect.
“It may be software coming back through time… It’s hard to assume now, nevertheless it may very well be possible,” CZ said, speculating Satoshi Nakamoto may very well be a synthetic intelligence from the longer term.
Satoshi Nakamoto was an AI from the longer term.
I used to be just asked “who I believe Satoshi may be” in a live (still on-going) interview from Turkey. I tweet during meetings on a regular basis. 
Between the lines
CZ emphasized he has no knowledge of who Satoshi actually is, but called the time-traveling AI theory certainly one of the “stranger” yet plausible possibilities. He added that the entire anonymity of Bitcoin’s founder is either the work of a single, highly expert individual or something way more advanced.
“Whoever it was, covered their tracks rather well. No IPs, no real traces,” CZ said. “That’s very hard to do.”
Flashback
Names like Hal Finney, Nick Szabo, Adam Back, and even Canadian developer Peter Todd have all been floated as possible candidates. A 2024 HBO documentary even accused Todd of being Satoshi. a claim he denies, saying he was forced into hiding.
CZ used the moment to reaffirm his belief in Bitcoin’s dominance.
“Bitcoin might be way larger than gold,” he said. “It just takes time.”
Reality check
Bitcoin briefly overtook silver, Amazon, and Google in market cap earlier this month. But it’s still trailing gold by a large margin, $1.88T vs. gold’s $22.1T.
Whether a genius, a bunch, or AI from the longer term, the mystery of Satoshi endures, and the world’s biggest crypto players are still guessing.
