Alias: ATAT

Amir Taaki

暗い — dark

ATAT resembles Amir Taaki's initials/name, and Taaki co-created Dark Wallet.

Alias: Agent Zero

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

三角形 — triangle

Zero/Zooko wordplay plus the identity-system trilemma known as Zooko's triangle.

Alias: Apache Pilot

Unknown

理想的な結び目 — ideal knots

Alias: Applesauce

Jacob Appelbaum

玉葱 — onion

Apple/Appel wordplay plus Appelbaum's prominent Tor work, matching onion routing.

Alias: Bluebird

Jack Dorsey

短文投稿 — short posts

Bluebird and short posts point to Twitter; Dorsey co-founded Twitter.

Alias: Captain

Ross Ulbricht

シルク — Silk

Captain points to Dread Pirate Roberts, Ulbricht's documented Silk Road pseudonym; Silk independently points to Silk Road.

Alias: Charlie Bravo

Charles H. Bennett

暗号特許 — cryptography patents

Charlie Bravo gives C.B. initials, and Bennett is a foundational quantum-cryptography inventor with related patents.

Alias: Cold Boot

J. Alex Halderman

弱い鍵 — weak keys

Halderman was a principal author of the cold-boot attack research recovering encryption keys from memory.

Alias: Crystal

Unknown

学生 — student

Alias: Curtain Call

Unknown

侵入研究 — intrusion research

Alias: Dashboard

Luke Dashjr

オーシャン — ocean

Dash/Dashboard wordplay plus Dashjr's co-founding of the OCEAN Bitcoin mining pool.

Alias: Fireman

Matt Blaze

クリッパー — Clipper

Blaze/fire wordplay plus Blaze's discovery of a serious flaw in the Clipper system.

Alias: Godspeed

Lawrence Lessig

ネット法と文化 — internet law and culture

Lessig is strongly associated with internet law and free-culture scholarship.

Alias: Goldfinger

Ian Goldberg

消えるメッセージ — disappearing messages

Gold/Goldberg wordplay plus Goldberg's privacy and off-the-record messaging work.

Alias: Goldszmith

Nick Szabo

スマートコントラクト — smart contract

Szabo coined and developed the smart-contract concept; the alias suggests a gold/smith wordplay consistent with bit gold.

Alias: Grill Master

Lance Cottrell

匿名スピーチ — anonymous speech

Grill Master evokes Mixmaster, the anonymous-remailer software Cottrell originally wrote; he later founded Anonymizer, directly matching anonymous speech.

Alias: Haste Maker

Sean Hastings

データアイランド — data island

Haste/Hastings wordplay plus Hastings's role in HavenCo, the Sealand data-haven venture.

Alias: Hellraiser

Martin Hellman

鍵交換 — key exchange

Hell/Hellman wordplay plus Hellman's co-invention of public-key key exchange.

Alias: Horoscope

Marc Horowitz

かなり良いプライバシー — pretty good privacy

Horoscope/Horowitz phonetic wordplay plus Horowitz's MIT thesis and implementation of a PGP public-key server. His PKS implementation became the foundation of the OpenPGP HTTP Keyserver Protocol (HKP).

Alias: Jaws

Unknown

数理システム理論 — mathematical systems theory

Alias: Jules

Julian Assange

漏洩 — leakage

Jules/Julian wordplay plus Assange's association with document leaks through WikiLeaks.

Alias: Letter S

Steven Aftergood

情報公開の自由 — freedom of information

S/Steven plus Aftergood's long-running work on government secrecy and Freedom of Information through Secrecy News.

Alias: Liberty Bell

Steven Bellovin

ファイアウォール — firewall

Bell/Bellovin wordplay plus Bellovin's foundational firewall and network-security work.

Alias: Long One

Unknown

楕円暗号 — elliptic-curve cryptography

Alias: Lucky

Ryan Lackey

データヘイブン — data haven

Lucky closely echoes Lackey, and Ryan Lackey co-founded HavenCo, an offshore data haven—an exact match for the business trait.

Alias: M

Ralph Merkle

木々 — trees

M/Merkle plus Merkle's invention of Merkle trees.

Alias: Max Power

Gregory Maxwell

機密取引 — confidential transactions

Max/Maxwell wordplay plus Maxwell's authorship of Confidential Transactions.

Alias: Mayhem

Timothy C. May

暗号無政府 — crypto-anarchy

May/Mayhem wordplay plus May's foundational role in crypto-anarchy.

Alias: Mochi

Shinichi Mochizuki

数学 — mathematics

Mochi/Mochizuki wordplay plus Mochizuki's career as a mathematician.

Alias: Mojo Man

Jim McCoy

ファイル共有 — file sharing

Mojo Man and the file-sharing trait point directly to Mojo Nation, the peer-to-peer file-sharing system founded and led by Jim McCoy as CEO.

Alias: Molten Lava

Unknown

ディージェイ — DJ

Alias: Money

Moni Naor

作業証明 — proof of work

Money/Moni wordplay plus Naor's co-authorship of the foundational proof-of-work anti-spam proposal.

Alias: Mountain Man

Unknown

ロバ — donkey

Alias: Mr. Anderson

Gavin Andresen

蛇口 — faucet

Anderson/Andresen resemblance plus Andresen's creation of the first Bitcoin faucet.

Alias: Mr. CashBack

Adam Back

ストリーム — stream

CashBack combines electronic cash and Hashcash with Adam Back's surname, while the business trait stream independently points to Blockstream, which Back co-founded.

Alias: Mr. Red

Paul Le Roux

陰謀 — conspiracy

Le Roux means the red-haired man, directly matching Mr. Red. Le Roux was a programmer who pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and later became the subject of a public theory that he created Bitcoin.

Alias: Mr. Right

Unknown

訴訟 — litigation

Alias: Mr. Toad

John Gilmore

ブートストラップ — bootstrap

Gilmore owned toad.com, which hosted Cypherpunks, and co-authored the Bootstrap Protocol.

Alias: Mr. X

Elon Musk

電気自動車 — electric vehicle

X and electric vehicles point to Musk through X and Tesla.

Alias: Mr. Z

Phil Zimmermann

メール暗号化 — email encryption

Z/Zimmermann plus Zimmermann's creation of PGP email encryption.

Alias: Ms. Crypto

Cynthia Dwork

統計的ノイズ — statistical noise

Dwork co-invented differential privacy, which protects data by adding calibrated statistical noise.

Alias: Mt. Mox

Moxie Marlinspike

消える会話 — disappearing conversations

Mox/Moxie wordplay plus Signal's disappearing-message feature.

Alias: Next of Kin

Unknown

サイバー法 — cyber law

Alias: Old Man River

Unknown

暗号化接続 — encrypted connection

Alias: Olive Juice

Eric Hughes

エンジニアリングマニフェスト — engineering manifesto

Olive juice is a visual phrase for 'I love you,' suggesting affection/hugs/Hughes; Hughes wrote A Cypherpunk's Manifesto.

Alias: Patty

Unknown

生物学 — biology

Alias: Q

Jean-Jacques Quisquater

タイムスタンプ — timestamp

Q points directly to Quisquater, who co-authored Design of a Secure Timestamping Service with Minimal Trust Requirements—the timestamping paper cited as reference #2 in the Bitcoin white paper.

Alias: Rex

Ron Rivest

暗号特許 — cryptography patents

R/Rex wordplay and Rivest's central role in patented public-key cryptography through RSA.

Alias: Riggs

Ian Grigg

リカルディアン — Ricardian

Riggs/Grigg wordplay plus Grigg's invention of the Ricardian Contract.

Alias: Running Man

Hal Finney

再利用可能証明 — reusable proofs

Finney created Reusable Proofs of Work; running also echoes his well-known running activity.

Alias: Sakou

Unknown

九州 — Kyushu

Alias: Sandstorm

Cody Wilson

スマートライフル — smart rifle

Wilson is associated with digitally manufactured firearms; the smart-rifle and Sandstorm clues are not exact.

Alias: Sasquatch

Len Sassaman

匿名転送 — anonymous forwarding

Sasquatch echoes Sassaman; Sassaman maintained Mixmaster and operated the randseed anonymous remailer, directly matching anonymous forwarding.

Alias: Shears

Steven Schear

カナリア — canary

Shears/Schear wordplay plus Schear's proposal of the warrant-canary concept.

Alias: Snowman

Edward Snowden

書類 — documents

Snow/Snowden wordplay plus Snowden's disclosure of classified surveillance documents.

Alias: Soup Man

Unknown

サーベイランス — surveillance

Alias: Space Shuttle

Mark Shuttleworth

証明書販売 — certificate sales

Shuttle/Shuttleworth wordplay plus Shuttleworth's founding of certificate authority Thawte.

Alias: Stic Man

Unknown

りんご — apple

Alias: Tall Man

Richard Stallman

無料ソフトウェア — free software

Tall Man/Stallman wordplay plus Stallman's founding role in the free-software movement.

Alias: The Acrobat

Unknown

被害者保護 — victim protection

Alias: The Assassin

Robin Hanson

予測市場 — prediction markets

Hanson developed prediction-market ideas and proposed the controversial assassination market concept.

Alias: The Belgian

Joan Daemen

ブロック暗号 — block cipher

Daemen is Belgian and co-designed the Rijndael/AES block cipher.

Alias: The Boar

Stefan Brands

匿名資格情報 — anonymous credentials

A boar may be branded; Brands developed influential anonymous digital-credential systems.

Alias: The Brother

Ross Cohen

豪雨 — downpour

The Brother pairs with The Ram: Ross Cohen is Bram Cohen's younger brother and partnered with him at BitTorrent. Both aliases share 豪雨 (torrential rain or downpour), suggesting torrent.

Alias: The Caller

Unknown

暗号電話 — encrypted phone

Alias: The Carrier

Phil Karn

フロッピーディスク — floppy disk

Carrier points to Karn's communications and amateur-radio work. His encryption-export challenge centered on a floppy disk containing source code from Applied Cryptography, directly matching the business.

Alias: The Chef

Paul Kocher

タイミング攻撃 — timing attack

Koch/Kocher means cook, and Kocher pioneered practical timing attacks.

Alias: The Cook

Werner Koch

無料暗号化 — free encryption

Koch means cook in German, and Koch created the free GnuPG encryption implementation.

Alias: The Diffuser

Whitfield Diffie

鍵交換 — key exchange

Diffuser/Diffie wordplay plus Diffie's co-invention of public-key key exchange.

Alias: The Don

Don Tapscott

電子商取引 — e-commerce

Don directly matches the name; Tapscott is a prominent author on the digital economy and electronic commerce.

Alias: The Dutchman

Jack van Lint

符号理論 — coding theory

Jack van Lint, whose full name was Jacobus Hendricus van Lint, was a Dutch mathematician whose principal work included coding theory. He authored Coding Theory and Introduction to Coding Theory.

Alias: The Earner

Mike Hearn

灯台 — lighthouse

Earner/Hearn wordplay plus Hearn's creation of the Lighthouse crowdfunding application.

Alias: The Exporter

Daniel J. Bernstein

サルサ — salsa

Bernstein designed Salsa20 and successfully challenged U.S. cryptography export controls.

Alias: The Face

Dorian Nakamoto

列車模型 — model trains

Nakamoto became the public face of a widely disputed Satoshi identification and is publicly reported as a model-train enthusiast.

Alias: The Finn

Martti Malmi (Sirius)

フォーラムビルダー — forum builder

Malmi is Finnish and set up early Bitcoin forums, directly matching Finn and forum builder.

Alias: The Gardener

Eric Blossom

ソフトウェア無線 — software-defined radio

Garden/Blossom wordplay plus Blossom's creation of GNU Radio, a software-defined radio project.

Alias: The Godfather

David Chaum

デジタルキャッシュ — digital cash

Chaum is widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash.

Alias: The Godfather II

Ross Anderson

国民保健サービス — national health service

Anderson was a leading security researcher who published influential criticism of NHS information-security systems.

Alias: The Good Man

Peter Gutmann

安全な削除 — secure deletion

Good Man/Gutmann wordplay plus Gutmann's influential work on secure data deletion.

Alias: The Gripper

Unknown

万人のアクセス — universal access

Alias: The Haberdasher

Stuart Haber

連鎖証明 — chain proofs

Haber/Haberdasher wordplay plus Haber's co-invention of cryptographic document timestamping.

Alias: The Hawk

Ahmed Kosba

零知識証明 — zero-knowledge proofs

Kosba is the lead author of Hawk, a privacy-preserving smart-contract system using zero-knowledge proofs.

Alias: The Heater

Robert Hettinga

デジタルベアラー — digital bearer

Heater/Hettinga wordplay plus Hettinga's advocacy of digital bearer-settlement systems.

Alias: The Hitman

Unknown

三位一体 — trinity

Alias: The Invisible Man

Peter Wayner

ステガノグラフィー — steganography

Wayner wrote Disappearing Cryptography, specifically about steganography and information hiding.

Alternate: Timothy C. May

Alias: The Kazoo

Unknown

ハードウェア暗号 — hardware cryptography

Alias: The Kiwi

Roger Clarke

監視研究 — surveillance studies

Clarke is New Zealand-born and a major dataveillance/surveillance researcher.

Alias: The Machine

Peter Biddle

パラジウム — palladium

Biddle led Microsoft's trusted-computing initiative code-named Palladium. Microsoft described Palladium as a hardware/software trust core able to verify the machine and software in use, so the alias and business trait converge directly. The alias's lower-band 41.11 average NI is consistent with an influential precursor rather than a Bitcoin Core contributor.

Alias: The Navigator

Marc Andreessen

ブラウザ — browser

Andreessen co-created Mosaic and co-founded Netscape, whose flagship browser was Navigator.

Alias: The Ox

Clifford Cocks

暗号特許 — cryptography patents

The Ox may point to Oxford, where Clifford Cocks conducted number-theory research before joining GCHQ. The cryptography-patents trait aligns with his pioneering public-key work and later split-key cryptography patent.

Alias: The Parakeet

Lucky Green

データ避難所 — data refuge

A parakeet is commonly green, pointing to Lucky Green. The alias may also encode 'the pair of keys': Lucky and Lackey both carry a 'key' sound. Green also commented on Sealand and offshore infrastructure in a Cypherpunks discussion about Eternity services and data havens, aligning with the data-refuge trait.

Alias: The Piercer

Brock Pierce

決済システム — payment systems

Piercer/Pierce wordplay and Pierce's extensive digital-payment and cryptocurrency work.

Alias: The Provost

Lance Spitzner

ハニーポット — honeypot

Spitzner founded the Honeynet Project and wrote extensively about honeypots; the Provost alias is unexplained.

Alias: The Ram

Bram Cohen

豪雨 — downpour

The Ram supplies RAM; paired with The Brother's B and their shared business 豪雨 (torrential rain or downpour, suggesting torrent), the clues form B + RAM + torrent: Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent.

Alias: The Repeater

Peter Todd

タイムスタンプ — timestamp

Repeater encodes re-Peter and echoes Todd's early BitcoinTalk handle retep—Peter reversed. Todd created OpenTimestamps, directly matching the timestamp business.

Alias: The Saint

Scott Vanstone

ハンドブック — handbook

Saint/St. and stone/Vanstone wordplay; Vanstone co-authored the Handbook of Applied Cryptography.

Alias: The Scout

Unknown

魔法の言葉 — magic words

Alias: The Scribe

Perry E. Metzger

暗号郵便リスト — crypto mailing list

Metzger has long administered/moderated the Cryptography mailing list.

Alias: The Soldier

Unknown

ルートキット — rootkit

Alias: The Storm

W. Scott Stornetta

デジタル文書 — digital documents

Storm/Stornetta wordplay plus Stornetta's co-invention of cryptographic timestamping for digital documents.

Alias: The Swan

Unknown

暗号郵便 — cryptographic mail

Alias: The Tailor

Bruce Schneier

フグ — blowfish

Schneider/Schneier has a tailor wordplay, and Schneier designed Blowfish.

Alias: The Tortoise

Unknown

暗号化の権利 — right to encrypt

Alias: The Villain

Edward Castronova

仮想経済 — virtual economy

Castronova is a foundational scholar of virtual worlds and virtual economies; the alias wordplay remains unclear.

Alias: The Way

Wei Dai

電子現金提案 — electronic cash proposal

Wei Dai proposed b-money, an anonymous distributed electronic-cash system; 'way' also evokes Dao/Dai wordplay.

Alias: Thommy Boy

Unknown

安全 — security

Alias: V.I.P.

Paul Vixie

迷惑メール防止 — anti-spam

V.I.P./Vixie-Paul initial wordplay plus Vixie's prominent anti-spam work.

Alias: Van Helsing

Johan Helsingius

リメーラー — remailer

Helsing/Helsingius wordplay plus Helsingius's operation of the penet.fi anonymous remailer.

Alias: Yorkie

Unknown

表現の自由 — freedom of expression

Alias: Young Gun

Peter Junger

輸出規制 — export controls

Young/Junger wordplay plus Junger's landmark challenge to encryption export controls.

Alias: Youngster

John Young

アーカイブ — archive

Young/Youngster wordplay plus Young's creation of the Cryptome document archive.