“We do not know who Satoshi is,” Thiel told the crowd. He was referring to Satoshi Nakamoto, the man who invented bitcoin, and had become an “elusive figure who might or might not exist ...

Benjamin Wallace’s “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto” is a new attempt to unmask the identity of the figure (or figures) who eventually did so, introducing Bitcoin in 2008 under the name Satoshi ...