Adam Back Denies Being Bitcoin Creator In Response To NYT: ‘I Am Not Satoshi’
Blockstream CEO, Adam Back, denied on Wednesday that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin (BTC), responding to a New York Times (NYT) investigation that pointed to him as the leading suspect. The NYT report, by John Carreyrou, drew on a range of circumstantial evidence — including parallels in writing style, the use of British spellings, and overlapping cryptographic expertise — to argue that Back could be the person behind Bitcoin’s origin story. Adam Back Rejects NYT Case In his post on social media platform X (previously Twitter), Back said plainly, “I’m not....
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