On Wednesday, the New York Times published investigation, which suggests that the British cryptographer Adam Beck maybe Satoshi Nakamoto. The similarity in handwriting led journalists to this conclusion.
However, based on 134,308 messages from the cyberpunk mailing lists, no claims are made that Back is the inventor of the first $1,4 trillion cryptocurrency.
To gather evidence, journalist John Carreyrou spent a year poring over thousands of old internet messages, court documents, and email archives.
By studying handwriting patterns, including hyphenation errors, Carreyrou narrowed the pool of 620 early cryptographic mailing list users to one.
It all started with watching a documentary HBO movie 2024 “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery” and the scenes where Beck sat on a park bench in Riga and tensed up when the director mentioned his name as a possible Satoshi.
The journalist found Back’s behavior suspicious, so he began studying Black’s publications. He quickly discovered that in his 1997 posts, Back had outlined all five of Bitcoin’s core features, published a decade before the white paper.
Back then proposed an electronic cash system, “completely disconnected” from the modern banking system, that would maintain the confidentiality of the payer and the recipient, and would operate on a distributed network.
Back also wrote about nodes that could “come and go” without affecting the network, and proposed using Wei Dai’s own invention, Hashcash, to issue b-money coins. Later Satoshi Nakamoto mentioned both Hashcash and b-money in “Bitcoin White Pages.
Adam Beck keeps denying that he is— SatoshiHowever, when Carreyrou emailed him asking for metadata from the emails Beck had provided during Craig Wright’s trial, he did not respond.
An HBO documentary released in October 2024 named Canadian software developer Peter Todd as the leading contender for Bitcoin’s creator. This theory forced the programmer to hide from potential attackers seeking to obtain 1,1 million BTC. Satoshi.
Previously to the individual Satoshi were included Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, and Len Sassaman, but no irrefutable evidence was found. Australian computer scientist Craig Wright, on the other hand, spent years proving that he was the real deal. Satoshi Nakamoto, which caused strong hostility.
In December 2024, Wright got a one-year suspended sentence for contempt of court and a ban on publicly identifying himself with Satoshi Nakamoto.
Since the email was sent on April 26, 2011, Satoshi Nakamoto remains silent, and the world continues to wonder who he owes the creation of the first decentralized cryptocurrency to.
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