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Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could use a Russian proxy server in January 2009, the Cointelegraph reports citing the first version of the protocol.
This version is supported by line 212 in the file irc.cpp. It shows attempts to use a simple cipher that removes all zeros and converts hexadecimal values to decimal, the publication notes.
Image: Cointelegraph, Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
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This leads to the IP address 87.251.146. This proxy server was served by the Russian Anders Telecom. The company’s website is currently unavailable. She probably ceased operations in 2016.
This line of code is located in a file about connecting to Internet Relay Chat, a protocol for real-time messaging that became popular in the 1990s. Satoshi also discussed IRC at BitcoinTalk.
Ergo co-founder Alexander Chepurnoy in a Cointelegraph comment suggested that Satoshi might have been in one of the Five Eye countries (Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, Canada and the USA). This would explain the choice of the Russian proxy server – the probability of a backdoor from Western intelligence agencies was objectively lower, he concluded.
From this IP address, a user named Sergey commented on hotels in Vietnam on the Otzyv.ru website in December 2008 and January 2009.
Section in Russian appeared on BitcoinTalk very quickly after launch, and a well-known user NewLibertyStandard (user # 26) was active in this part of the forum, although he spoke broken Russian.
Chepurnoy, however, believes that Satoshi would hardly have used a Russian proxy server if he lived in Russia.
“Perhaps this address was used in the office where Satoshi worked, or he shared it with someone from Russia.”
Previously, users found a publication dated September 19, 1999 in the cipherpunk mailing list that Nakamoto could write.
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