Penerbitan The New York Times (NYT) mempublikasikan penyelidikan yang mengklaim sebagai pengungkapan terbaru tentang identitas asli pencipta bitcoin yang anonim dengan nama samaran Satoshi Nakamoto. Jurnalis John Carreyrou, yang dikenal melalui bukunya Bad Blood tentang perusahaan Theranos, yang dianggap sebagai penipuan terbesar di zaman modern, menghabiskan satu tahun menganalisis arsip internet dan akhirnya得出 kesimpulan bahwa Satoshi adalah kriptografer Inggris Adam Back.
Adam Back, co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, as well as a cryptographer and computer scientist, is widely known for the invention of Hashcash in 1997 — a proof-of-work system underlying Bitcoin mining. As a developer, he participated in the early development of Bitcoin.
Back has long been considered one of the main contenders for the role of Satoshi, but he has repeatedly and publicly denied it. For nearly 20 years, no one has been able to provide actual evidence of Satoshi's true identity. Moreover, there is not even an understanding of whether it is one person or a group of people using a common pseudonym.
In the process of concluding that Bitcoin was developed by Adam Back, Carreiro built a multi-layered analysis system, applying linguistics and artificial intelligence, comparing the writing habits of Satoshi and other developers. He also found strange coincidences in Back's correspondence and behavior during key moments in Bitcoin's history.
The basis for the start of Carreiro's investigation was the documentary film Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery from HBO released in 2024, which named Canadian developer Peter Todd as the creator of Bitcoin. Todd and Back are personally acquainted and even appear together in the film, where both directly deny that either of them is Satoshi.
Carreiro found HBO's version to be 'unconvincing'. After all, Todd was 23 years old at the time of the publication of the concept of Bitcoin (white paper) in 2008, and after the film's release, he showed photographs of himself snowboarding at the times when Satoshi was posting on the forum. Moreover, the journalist found Back's reaction in the film 'suspicious', as he noticeably tensed, laughed nervously, and asked to leave the conversation off the record when his last name was mentioned.
In more than a decade and a half, the community has put forward dozens of candidates for the role of Satoshi, but Carreiro highlights only a few. For everyone except Back, he noted possible reasons for dismissal. According to the journalist, only Adam Back matches the age (55 years) — he is alive, technically competent, has British origins, and there is no documented evidence against such a hypothesis.#BinanceWalletLaunchesPredictionMarkets $BTC
