Nakamoto’s net worth is estimated to be up to $73 billion, with crypto holdings in the region of 750,000 to 1.1 million BTC.
The price of bitcoin hit a new all-time high earlier this month above $68,000 following an increase of more than 300 per cent over the last year.
Nakamoto described their vision for a peer-to-peer digital currency in a white paper in 2008, before launching bitcoin a few months later in January 2009.
In 2015, Australian programmer Craig Wright claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto but was broadly greeted with scepticism from senior figures within the crypto industry.
“But, as the events of this week unfolded and I prepared to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys, I broke.