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NYT investigation names Adam Back as Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 10, 2026
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Satoshi Nakamoto monument in Budapest, Hungary (Nominesine / Shutterstock.com)

John Carreyrou — the journalist who broke the Theranos story — spent 18 months trying to identify Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator. His conclusion, published in the New York Times this week: Adam Back, 55, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, the comp…

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