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A report in the New York Times claims 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 for the founder of the revolutionary digital currency system, introduced in 2008. Back himself 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 crypto community has always maintained that the mystery isn’t a financially material one and that even if proven, their identity would have little impact on bitcoin
fundamentals. (What might matter more is the untouched stash of early coins.) Bitcoin, they say, has been independently operated for more than 10 years and it’s perhaps better for investors that it remain that way.
