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Latest investigation into bitcoin founder ties identity to Blockstream CEO Adam Back
A report in The New York Times says it has discovered the identity of the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin known as Satoshi Nakamoto. The article identifies 55-year-old Adam Back — the CEO of Blockstream, a prominent cryptographer and early figure in the bitcoin community — as the strongest candidate to be the founder of the revolutionary digital currency system, introduced in 2008. Back has denied various claims over the years that he is Satoshi Nakamoto and did so again Wednesday in a string of posts on X. The cryptocurrency community has always maintained that the mystery isn’t a financially material one and ... (full story)