No, Linus Torvalds is Not Bitcoin's Legendary Creator Satoshi Nakamoto | Linux Today

No, Linus Torvalds is Not Bitcoin’s Legendary Creator Satoshi Nakamoto

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Jan 31, 2022

Linus Torvalds has done several amazing things. He’s the creator of both the Linux operating system and Git, the most popular distributed version control system. But he’s not Bitcoin’s inventor.

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