Adam Back has once again denied claims that he is the mysterious Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
The latest denial comes after an investigation by New York Times reporter John Carreyrou pointed to him as the most likely candidate.
Back Pushes Back
Following the NYT’s publishing of Carreyrou’s piece, Back took to X to reject its conclusion.
“I’m not Satoshi,” he said flatly.
The Blockstream founder also explained that he had been one of the most active posters on the Cypherpunks mailing list, loudly interested in electronic cash and cryptographic privacy from around 1992 onwards.
Two things are important here: first, his focus on e-cash and online privacy meant that people looking into Satoshi’s true identity would have found many Bitcoin-like elements in his past work; and second, the fact that he posted on the lists so often left a big enough paper trail that those same researchers would keep finding his fingerprints.
According to him, his posting volume meant that
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