Bitcoin’s mysterious creator is among the world’s richest people

Progressive cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is arguably one of the greatest financial phenomenons. However, there is great uncertainty over who created it and what their net worth is. 

All that is known about the founder of this progressive financial phenomenon is the name, Satoshi Nakamoto. Beyond this, nothing further is known. Yet, in 2016, Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright claimed that he is Nakamoto. The truth of the matter remains a mystery. 

Nakamoto could be alive, be dead, or he or she or it could be a group of people. No one knows for certain. However, the mysterious unknown creator of bitcoin is among the world's richest people as the cryptocurrency booms.

Bitcoin was a whisker away from hitting $20,000 over the weekend, hitting a high of $19,771 yesterday, according to the CoinDesk price index. At that price, bitcoin’s anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, would have been worth $19.4 billion, or the 44th richest person in the world, according to the Forbes rich list. That's based on estimates that Satoshi owns 980,000 untouched bitcoin.

That would place the anonymous man or woman as the 44th richest person in the world, based on Forbes annual rich list, ahead of Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed (who incidently branded bitcoin the "next Enron"), high profile investor Carl Ichan, steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, and many more.

In October, Satoshi Nakamoto was ranked 247th on the Forbes rich list with an estimated fortune of $5.9 billion. That was when bitcoin set a then-new record of $6,000 a coin—about a third of where it’s trading today.