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Re:Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson says the company is mining c... by derefr on Thursday September 28, 2017 @10:18PM (#15362300)
It's the name of the creator of Bitcoin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto. You can imagine them as little pennies with Satoshi's head imprinted on them, if you like.

And it's not really a decimal; it's more properly "1 bitcoin" in the technical sense. 1BTC was later defined to be equal to 10^8 Satoshis because that seemed like a useful amount of money to track exchange rates for (though now it's about 10^4 too high.)

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Re:Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson says the company is mining c... by lstyls on Thursday September 28, 2017 @10:35PM (#15362357)
"Name" is maybe not quite right, "Satoshi Nakomoto" is the creator's pseudonym. The actual author of the bitcoin whitepaper is unknown and the subject of much speculation.

I'm sure OP knows this, I'm just being pedantic.

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Re:Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson says the company is mining c... by dragonwriter on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:07PM (#15367593)
A pseudonym is a kind of name, so “name” is entirely correct, if not entirely complete (though, AFAIK, it is as complete as is known to be correct, since it is only widely presumed, rather than known, that the name is a pseudonym.)
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Re:Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson says the company is mining c... by knocte on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:58AM (#15363066)
Strictly speaking, it's not known if the name is a pseudonym either. There are people in the world that have that name and they haven't denied being the creator.
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Re:Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson says the company is mining c... by lstyls on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:23AM (#15363859)
If it is said author's name, why have they not publicly claimed to be this Satoshi? Name one such individual who has credibly been considered to have invented bitcoin.
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Re:Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson says the company is mining c... by phaemon on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:44AM (#15366274)
You want the name of the Satoshi Nakomoto who is most likely to be the Satoshi Nakomoto? The name? That's what you want? Are you sure you've thought this through?
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