The identity of Bitcoin’s creator is crypto’s greatest mystery. Now, one of the industry’s biggest names is floating its wildest theory yet.
In a recent interview with Turkish influencers, former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao suggested that Bitcoin may not have been created by a human at all.
“It might be software coming back through time… It’s hard to imagine now, but it could be possible,” CZ said, speculating Satoshi Nakamoto could be an artificial intelligence from the future.
Satoshi Nakamoto was an AI from the future.
I was just asked “who I think Satoshi might be” in a live (still on-going) interview from Turkey. I tweet during meetings all the time.
— CZ
BNB (@cz_binance) April 27, 2025
Between the lines
CZ emphasized he has no knowledge of who Satoshi actually is, but called the time-traveling AI theory one of the “stranger” yet plausible possibilities. He added that the complete anonymity of Bitcoin’s founder is either the work of a single, highly skilled individual or something far more advanced.
“Whoever it was, covered their tracks really well. No IPs, no real traces,” CZ said. “That’s very hard to do.”
Flashback
Names like Hal Finney, Nick Szabo, Adam Back, and even Canadian developer Peter Todd have all been floated as possible candidates. A 2024 HBO documentary even accused Todd of being Satoshi. a claim he denies, saying he was forced into hiding.
CZ used the moment to reaffirm his belief in Bitcoin’s dominance.
“Bitcoin will be way bigger than gold,” he said. “It just takes time.”
Reality check
Bitcoin briefly overtook silver, Amazon, and Google in market cap earlier this month. But it’s still trailing gold by a wide margin, $1.88T vs. gold’s $22.1T.
Whether a genius, a group, or AI from the future, the mystery of Satoshi endures, and the world’s biggest crypto players are still guessing.
