omg, you guys, there's been a pretty wild claim made about the true identity of satoshi nakamoto, the mysterious creator of bitcoin. apparently, a new york times investigator thinks he's found the real deal, and it's a british cryptographer named adam back. i'm not sure what to make of it all, but it's definitely got me intrigued.



so, the investigator, john carreyrou, has been digging into this whole thing for over a year, and he's come up with some pretty interesting evidence. for one, he's noticed that both adam back and satoshi nakamoto have some weird grammar quirks in common - like, they both tend to hyphenate compound nouns incorrectly. it sounds kinda nitpicky, but i guess it's a pretty specific thing to have in common. carreyrou also found that back used a term called "partial pre-image" in a cypherpunks list back in 2004, and then nakamoto used the same term a few years later.



another thing that's got carreyrou convinced is that adam back was actually the first person that nakamoto emailed. like, ever. and get this - back's own paper from way back when lays out some principles that ended up in the bitcoin white paper. it's all pretty circumstantial, but it's definitely enough to raise an eyebrow. oh, and back also references his own hashcash project in the bitcoin white paper, which is just a bit too coincidental for carreyrou's taste.



but here's the thing - adam back himself says it's all just a big coincidence. he claims he's not satoshi nakamoto, and that he was just really interested in the whole cryptography and electronic cash thing back in the day. i kinda believeRead more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com

What do you think about this?