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Famous people on-chain: what PublicAML knows

65 public figures whose wallets are attributed by name in our data — Bitcoin's first decade, the people who wrote the protocols, exchange founders, creators, and the names that turned up in criminal cases. Each card shows every address we attribute to the person, the risk score our engine gives each one right now, and how much has moved through it. Open any of them for the full report: source of funds, counterparties and every finding behind the score.

Who says these are their addresses. Most of the names come from an attribution feed rather than from us — we are repeating a claim, and it can be wrong or out of date. A few we assert ourselves; every address says which, under its own line, in the wording of whoever said it. A public figure can also have wallets nobody has ever linked to them, and a card showing one address is not a claim that there is only one; nothing here is a complete picture of anyone's holdings.

What the score means. The risk score is exposure, not an accusation. It says what has reached this address through the graph — an address can score high purely because strangers sent it tainted funds, which is exactly what happens to a published donation address. It is live at page load.

What the counts mean. Transfers in and out are every transfer we have indexed, all assets included. Spam and airdrop tokens are transfers too, so on a well-known Ethereum wallet most of the count is noise sent by strangers. They are a snapshot taken 2026-09-30, not live. We do not publish balances: our data cannot reconstruct one we would be willing to put a name next to.

Bitcoin history

The addresses the first decade of Bitcoin was written from: the genesis coinbase, the pizza, the donation addresses people published on forums when publishing one was normal.

Satoshi Nakamoto

The genesis block reward address. Still receives tribute payments; nothing has ever left it.

BTC1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
60HIGH
Transfers in
18,558
Transfers out
0
Active
2011 – 2026

Attributed as Satoshi Nakamoto by entities-discoverer

Christian Decker

Lightning Network researcher at Blockstream, one of the earliest academic bitcoin engineers.

BTC14r3rcGdVPqn9MxudAeDdWLbbpW81Lp8Zj
0LOW
Transfers in
310
Transfers out
301
Active
2013 – 2013

Attributed as Christian Decker (Cdecker) by entities-discoverer

theymos

Operator of BitcoinTalk and the r/Bitcoin subreddit.

BTC17RTTUAiiPqUTKtEggJPec8RxLMi2n9EZ9
0LOW
Transfers in
215
Transfers out
102
Active
2011 – 2021

Attributed as theymos (BitcoinTalk) by entities-discoverer

Laszlo Hanyecz

Paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas in May 2010, the first documented purchase with bitcoin.

BTC1XPTgDRhN8RFnzniWCddobD9iKZatrvH4
0LOW
Transfers in
87
Transfers out
11
Active
2010 – 2011

Attributed as Laslo Hanyecz by entities-discoverer

dwdollar

Founded BitcoinMarket.com in 2010, the first bitcoin exchange.

BTC1JyEmxiMso2RsFVfBcCa616npBvGgxiBX
0LOW
Transfers in
13
Transfers out
11
Active
2010 – 2011

Attributed as dwdollar (BitcoinMarket.com) by entities-discoverer

Roger Ver

"Bitcoin Jesus"; early investor in Bitcoin startups, later the face of Bitcoin Cash.

BTC16cou7Ht6WjTzuFyDBnht9hmvXytg6XdVT
0LOW
Transfers in
11
Transfers out
4
Active
2011 – 2016

Attributed as Roger Ver by entities-discoverer

Stefan Thomas

Made the "What is Bitcoin?" explainer video in 2011; later famous for the lost IronKey password.

BTC1AYLzYN7SGu5FQLBTADBzqKm4b6Udt6Bw6
0LOW
Transfers in
4
Transfers out
0
Active
2011 – 2026

Attributed as Stefan Thomas by entities-discoverer

Protocol builders

The people who wrote the contracts and clients everyone else transacts through. Most of these wallets are ordinary: a few thousand transfers, no risk findings, years of steady use.

Chun Wang

Co-founder of F2Pool. This is a payout wallet: the outgoing count is pool payouts, not personal spending.

ETH0x61C808D82A3Ac53231750daDc13c777b59310bD9
0LOW
Transfers in
4,676
Transfers out
2,162,428
Active
2016 – 2026

Attributed as Chun Wang (F2Pool) by entities-discoverer

Founders, funds and traders

Exchange founders and large capital. Their wallets sit close to exchange infrastructure, which is exactly where an exposure score has the most to say.

Creators and public figures

Wallets that exist because of an NFT drop, a token launch or a donation link. They receive a lot of unsolicited traffic, and that shows in both columns.

Investigations and enforcement

People named in criminal cases, sanctions designations or public investigations — plus the investigator whose donation address funded several of them.

Ali Khorashadizadeh

OFAC-designated in 2018 for converting SamSam ransomware proceeds.

BTC149w62rY42aZBox8fGcmqNsXUzSStKeq8C
100CRITICAL
Transfers in
4,756
Transfers out
2,474
Active
2013 – 2024

Attributed as Ali Khorashadizadeh (OFAC Sanctioned) by entities-discoverer

ZachXBT

Independent on-chain investigator; the donation address behind most public crypto fraud exposes.

ETH0x6eA158145907a1fAc74016087611913A96d96624
0LOW
Transfers in
5,890
Transfers out
199
Active
2023 – 2026

Attributed as ZachXBT by entities-discoverer

Mohammad Ghorbaniyan

OFAC-designated in 2018 alongside Khorashadizadeh for the same SamSam scheme.

BTC1AjZPMsnmpdK2Rv9KQNfMurTXinscVro9V
100CRITICAL
Transfers in
230
Transfers out
138
Active
2014 – 2018

Attributed as Mohammad Ghorbaniyan (OFAC Sanctioned) by entities-discoverer

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