New Evidence Claims to Reveal the Identity of the Crypto Creator Known as Satoshi Nakamoto (Bitcoin)

Greek Reporter ^ | April 8, 2026 | Abdul Moeed

[nickcarraway]

A year-long investigation by journalist John Carreyrou identifies Adam Back, a 55-year-old British computer scientist, as the man who created cryptocurrency under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous figure who introduced Bitcoin in 2008.

Back is the CEO of Blockstream, one of the most influential companies in the Bitcoin industry, and the inventor of Hashcash, a computational anti-spam tool that Bitcoin’s mining process directly borrows from.

Carreyrou’s investigation began after watching an HBO documentary in late 2024 that tried, and failed, to identify Bitcoin’s founder. Back appeared visibly uncomfortable when his name came up as a suspect. That reaction sparked a deeper inquiry.

Adam Back emerges as the crypto creator Satoshi Nakamoto Carreyrou combed through thousands of posts across three cryptography mailing lists dating back to 1992, building a database of more than 34,000 users.

After filtering for writing habits shared with Satoshi, including the use of double spaces between sentences, specific hyphenation errors, and the tendency to place the word “also” at the end of sentences, the pool narrowed from 620 candidates down to a single name: Adam Back.

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Back also shared at least three rare linguistic markers with Satoshi. Both hyphenated the term “proof-of-work” as a compound noun, a practice only eight people had used across the mailing list archives.

Both referenced an obscure Russian online currency called WebMoney. And both used the phrase “partial pre-image” in connection with Hashcash. Back was the only person in the database who matched all three.

Back denies all claims but refuses to provide key evidence Beyond writing patterns, Back outlined the foundational architecture of what would become Bitcoin between 1997 and 1999, a full decade before it launched. He proposed a distributed electronic cash system with built-in scarcity, publicly verifiable transactions, and inflation controls that mirror Bitcoin’s design precisely.

Carreyrou confronted Back in person at a Bitcoin conference in El Salvador in early 2025. Back denied being Satoshi Nakamoto more than six times during a two-hour meeting.

However, when Carreyrou quoted Satoshi saying he was “better with code than with words,” Back appeared to respond as though the words were his own, noting that he had done a lot of talking on those lists for someone who preferred code. Back later said it was just a casual conversational response.

Back also acknowledged that he possessed the technical expertise and professional history consistent with Bitcoin’s creator, even as he maintained that he was not Satoshi Nakamoto.

He declined to provide the metadata from emails he exchanged with Satoshi, which Carreyrou had requested as part of the investigation.

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KEYWORDS: adamback; bitcoin; blockstream; crypto; cryptocurrency; satoshinakamoto

[nickcarraway]

I bet it was Banksy.

[DesertRhino]

His identity is in the D.B. Cooper zone these days... lots of theories.

[Wayne07]

The problem with naming someone is you put a massive target on their back. Nakamoto is believed to have billions in crypto, the currency of organized crime, terrorists, narcos, and s—thole countries. You could get this guy killed for the sake of some clicks on an article.

[Magnum44]

[nickcarraway]

in crypto, the currency of organized crime, terrorists, narcos

Isn't it the exact opposite? Because of blockchain, isn't crypto more trackable than any type of currency, and the absolute worst for anything you don't want tracked?

[HYPOCRACY]

Don’t let those facts get in the way of a bad TV show plot.

[DesertRhino]

Exactly. The organized crime, terrorists and narcos meme is government speak for “we hate it because we do not have good control over it”

Or as a famous Italian in the 1920s said, “”Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”.

[Oystir]

The author John Carreyrou (sp) is a good investigative journalist. He wrote “Bad Blood” the account of the rise and fall of Theranos, the Silicon Valley biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes. Holmes claimed her company had developed a device that could run dozens of lab tests from a single finger-prick drop of blood — a vision that attracted billions in investment from high-profile backers like Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, valuing the company at over $9 billion. She sits in Federal prison in part because of the book