{"id":251864,"date":"2026-04-09T15:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=251864"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:18:50","slug":"who-is-bitcoins-mysterious-creator-mr-x-or-mr-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/251864\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is bitcoin\u2019s mysterious creator: Mr. X or Mr. Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“I spent more than a year digging into Satoshi’s identity, sifting through thousands of decades-old internet postings. With the help of computer-assisted reporting provided by my colleague Dylan Freedman, I amassed a body of evidence pointing to Adam Back, a 55-year-old British cryptographer. Mr. Back denied that he was Satoshi, and chalked it all up to a series of coincidences,” John Carreyrou, a journalist for The New York Times<\/a>, has said.<\/p>\n

The New York Times has reviewed Carreyrou’s 40-page report, outlining its key findings.<\/p>\n

Both Back and Nakamoto were involved with the Cypherpunks, a group of anarchists formed in the early 1990s who wanted to use cryptography — the art of securing communications through code — to free individuals from government surveillance and censorship.<\/p>\n

In a series of emails with his fellow Cypherpunks in the late 1990s, Back suggested creating a kind of electronic cash that would help people avoid government interference in financial transactions. He outlined a decentralized network of computers, or “nodes,” that would keep functioning even if a few tried to collude and take over the network. That’s exactly how Nakamoto later designed Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

Nakamoto and Back both liked to say they were better at coding than writing.<\/p>\n

When Nakamoto appeared, Back disappeared. After unveiling his invention, Nakamoto spent two and a half years trying to improve it. Then, in 2011, he famously disappeared. Back followed that same pattern, but in reverse. For more than a decade, whenever Cypherpunks discussed electronic money, Back almost always chimed in. But when Bitcoin was announced in late 2008, Back was nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

Carreyrou notes that Back’s writing style showed striking similarities to Nakamoto’s, including the use of British spellings and incorrect hyphenation. After months of gathering evidence, Carreyrou was able to meet with Back. However, Back rejected the claims, attributing the similarities to coincidence. Moreover, he stated that he could not be Nakamoto, as at the time he did not even understand how wallet addresses worked.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"