Recently, I stumbled upon a really extensive report published in 2020 that delved into the activities of Satoshi Nakamoto during the early days of BTC and provided us with some hints on where he is actually from. This particular report utilized the available chat logs on the Bitcointalk forum from years ago, various email correspondences, SourceForge commitments, the Genesis Block, and the metadata from his BTC whitepapers. I found it extremely fascinating and wanted to share it with you guys today.

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Pinpointing his timezone

So this report went and collected all his various activities across different platforms and started to make a plot on each of his activities in different timezones. They proposed that based on various elements, they tried to narrow it down from a list of locations like US Eastern, US Pacific, Europe (London), Asia (Tokyo), and Australia (Sydney). Then, they ascertained the median time for his last activity during each of the days. Based on this, it was very unlikely that Satoshi was from Japan or Australia because he would've needed to be a vampire and go to sleep during the afternoon. This data would directly confirm Craig Wright is in fact not Satoshi Nakamoto. Therefore, the likely candidates for his geographical locations would've been Europe (London), US Pacific and US Eastern.

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His online activities were plotted against Europe/London timezone.

His message in the Genesis Block

I'm sure many of you are aware that there is a message embedded in the BTC Genesis block. The message read;

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The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

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UK version of the Times newspaper headline

Based on this message, it was clear that Satoshi had physical access to the UK version of news/newspapers with the headlines exactly as written. Although this news was published in the US, it was very unlikely that the headlines would be the same since the US version was formatted in a way that included multiple international headlines news. Based on the Times reader demographic from July 2008 to August 2008, 43% of readers were from London. Therefore, the author of the report suggested that Satoshi was likely from London, UK (with reasonable confidence).

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You can read more about the report here.

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TLDR: The authors of this report have concluded that based on his online activities and the message in the Genesis Block, it's likely that Satoshi was from the UK and more specifically London.