Cryptocurrency enthusiasts have voiced a petition on Twitter to have the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC).
This comes days after the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced three recipients of the Economics Nobel: former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, and U.S. economists Philip Dybvig and Douglas Diamond for their “research on banks and financial crises”.
Nakamoto has not received any peace awards but cryptocurrency users have publicly honored the pseudonymous creator several times. According to Cointelegraph, a group of crypto enthusiasts set up a bronze statue of Nakomoto at a park in Budapest.
Satoshi Nakamoto should win the Nobel Prize.
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) October 10, 2022
Satoshi Nakamoto deserves two Nobel Prizes:
— Crypto Intelligence Amateur (@0xCryptoSapiens) October 11, 2022
1. Nobel Peace Prize
2. Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- True Freedom through #bitcoin-@NobelPrize @crypto @elonmusk @cz_binance
100% Satoshi Nakamoto should win the Nobel Prizes for his contributions to worlds finance & world peace https://t.co/Hbw3XQjXwd
— 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 (@DeepBlueCrypto) October 12, 2022
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However, It’s unclear if Nakamoto would ever be eligible to receive the Nobel prize, given their identity has never been publicly revealed.
A new report by Aiden Lab, based on a data point of Nakamoto’s updates to the code and posts occurring primarily during the daytime in the Western Hemisphere, indicates the person is potentially based in North America.
Price Action: Bitcoin traded higher intraday on Thursday evening as the total cryptocurrency market cap rose 0.2% to $923.3 billion at 9:02 p.m. EDT, according to data from Benzinga Pro.
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