The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of the creator of Bitcoin, remains a long-running mystery. But according to a new investigation published in the New York Times, Satoshi could be Adam Back, a British cryptographer who conducted influential early research about digital assets. Back denies that he is Satoshi. People have been trying to track down the father of Bitcoin for decades, without much success. Based on Back's denial, it's not clear if the Times' tech journalist John Carreyrou, known for his reporting that took down Theranos, got much further than anyone else. Back fits the profile of the kind of person you might suspect would create the first cryptocurrency. He created Hashcash, the proof-of-work system that Satoshi used to mine Bitcoin, and he is now the co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, a company building infrastructure for blockchain-based payment systems. Back even agreed with Carreyrou that he's a reasonable suspect, and it's probable that Satoshi is '...
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