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After 17 Years of Dead Ends, a NYT Reporter May Have Finally Unmasked Bitcoin's Secret Founder, and the Clue Was Hiding in Plain Sight All Along

A New York Times reporter named John Carreyrou has reportedly identified British cryptographer Adam Back as the person behind the name Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. After 17 years of speculation and dead ends, the answer may have been hiding in plain sight all along, buried in a pattern of tiny, consistent punctuation mistakes. Satoshi Nakamoto is not just a mystery; they are also among the richest people in the world. Naka…

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Nice. According to authors from the New York Times, I met Satoshi Nakamoto in 2022. Satoshi Nakamoto is the name under which the inventor of Bitcoin…

·Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Lean Right

The Bitcoin was launched in 2008 – but no one knows who. A research by the "New York Times" now wants to reveal the identity of the creator. What to think of the story.

·Düsseldorf, Germany
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Known under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of the bitcoin would actually be Adam Back, a British figure in the cryptocurrency world, after the investigations of the New York daily

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Infobae broke the news in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday, April 8, 2026.
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