Chainlink again in the spotlight, and actually co-founder Sergei Nazarov, who seems to be a very private person, more or less stated that he is a real Satoshi Nakamoto.
In one interview with Ben Khan, Vice President of Chainlink Network Engineering, Nazarov explained how Chainlink Oracle Network will scale to meet the demand of the DeFi market. Here is where Nazarov's little mistake revealed that he has been working in the blockchain industry for 10 years now.
The evidence it writes about comes from 2008 when Nazarov registered the domain smartcontract.com. Interestingly, this is Chainlinka's current landing page. What is it about? 6 days after the registration of smartcontract.com Satoshi presented the first version of the Bitcoin White Book.
The email ID of the email that bought smartcontract.com is exactly the same as the email that bought the chainlink.network domain. This is a strong evidence of Nazarov's actions in smart contracts already in 2008. It is not a hard evidence, but it is known that he worked during the time of Satoshi.
In 2010, Nakamoto made a lot of claims about BTC smart contracts.
Page from 2014
Chainlinka landing page in 2014. The only thing he talks about is smart contracts in the Bitcoin network. This is very strong evidence that suggests that Sergey is a real Satoshi.
If we take a look at Sergei LinkedIn's profile, we will see the relationship with QED Capital, the organization behind smartcontractract.com. Basically, QED is a Russian organization and Sergey is the Managing Director of QED.
Michael Kapilkov, 2020 start-up mentor at Columbia University-IBM Blockchain Accelerator tried to prove the combination of Bitcoin code with Russia. He claims that Satoshi used the Russian proxy to release the first version of Bitcoin code.
The IP address used is 87.251.146, the same IP address was used by a user named Sergey to post hotel reviews in 2008 and 2009.