insights INSIGHT How Writing Tics Became The First Real Lead ios_share
With no usable digital trail, John Carreyrou treated Satoshi's writings as the only reliable evidence.
He listed more than 100 unusual words and phrases, then found Adam Back used almost all of them in an advanced Twitter search.
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insights INSIGHT Why The Cypherpunk Mailing Lists Were The Key ios_share
John Carreyrou places Satoshi inside the cypherpunk movement, where electronic cash and anti-surveillance politics were central obsessions.
Adam Back fit that world unusually well because he was one of its most prolific, vocal participants on the mailing list.
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insights INSIGHT The Spam Obsession That Linked Back To Satoshi ios_share
John Carreyrou found Adam Back and Satoshi shared a rare mix of libertarian politics, anti-copyright views, and intense concern about spam.
Back's 1997 HashCash system fought mass email abuse and later became Bitcoin's proof-of-work model for minting coins.
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Get the app Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder has hidden his identity for 17 years despite many attempts to unmask him, even as his cryptocurrency has revolutionized finance and made him a billionaire.
John Carreyrou, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, walks us through the evidence he found pointing to the person behind the pseudonym. Then, we hear from the man John believes is Mr. Nakamoto.
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