NYT Names Adam Back as Likely Satoshi Nakamoto, Back Denies

The New York Times reports that Adam Back, Blockstream’s CEO, is the strongest candidate to be Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto, a claim Back denies. Investigative journalist John Carreyrou points to circumstantial similarities in language and timelines and Back’s early Hashcash work as supportive clues, but offers no definitive proof. The crypto community argues that identifying Nakamoto isn’t materially important to Bitcoin’s fundamentals, which have operated for over a decade, while markets nudged higher as bitcoin hovered around $71,700.