"I'm not Satoshi, but I was early in laser focus on the positive societal implications of cryptography, online privacy and electronic cash, hence my ~1992 onwards active interest in applied research on ecash, privacy tech on cypherpunks list which led to hashcash and other ideas."
"Carreyrou fed the archive into an AI to identify commonalities between how Satoshi and other active posters wrote. For example, Satoshi did not put hyphens in compound nouns, and sometimes mixed up 'its' and 'it's.'"
"Back was the best match, but wrote on X that the evidence is a 'c...'"
The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's creator, is still unknown. A New York Times investigation suggests Adam Back, a British cryptographer, could be Satoshi. Back denies this claim. He has a background in digital assets and created Hashcash, a system used by Satoshi. John Carreyrou, the journalist behind the investigation, analyzed emails from cryptography forums to find writing similarities. Although Back matched the writing style, there is no conclusive evidence to confirm his identity as Satoshi.
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