Adam Back denies NYT report naming him as Bitcoin's creator

The New York Times named the British cryptographer as its strongest candidate yet, citing AI-assisted writing analysis and biographical parallels

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British cryptographer Adam Back has denied being Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto after an investigation by The New York Times named him as the most compelling candidate identified to date.

"I'm not satoshi [sic]," Back wrote in a post on X $TWTR. He said his decades of work on cryptography, online privacy, and electronic cash — dating to about 1992 — explains why investigators keep finding connections between his background and Bitcoin's design. "The rest is a combination of coincidence and similar phrases from people with similar experience and interests," he wrote.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Carreyrou's investigation took shape over more than a year, during which he........

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