The latest Satoshi Nakamoto unmasking.

Posted Apr 8, 2026 at 7:20 AM UTC

The latest Satoshi Nakamoto unmasking.

The New York Times thinks it found the elusive person behind the pseudonym credited with creating Bitcoin. It relied on a combination of textual analysis and in-person tells to narrow a pool of suspects “from 34,000 down to one”.

Spoiler: it’s Adam Back, a cohort of Jeffrey Epstein and early “cypherpunk” who helped lay the groundwork for cryptocurrency.

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