Adam Back hypothesis

Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.

Defined in: Was Adam Back Satoshi? — Hashcash's inventor, Satoshi's first contact, the NYT's top stylometric match

2 entries reference this keyword in body prose.

Event March 25, 2014 Added May 3, 2026 Updated August 8, 2026 Analysis

Was Hal Finney Satoshi? — RPOW's author, with a real Satoshi Nakamoto living blocks from his door

He built RPOW, received the first Bitcoin transaction, and lived blocks from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. The evidence for Hal Finney as Satoshi, weighed.

Event October 31, 2008 Added May 1, 2026 Updated August 11, 2026 Analysis

Bitcoin did not appear from nowhere — inheritance and invention

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Adam Back, Wei Dai

Bitcoin v0.1 reuses one cypherpunk primitive (PoW from Hashcash), borrows general CS components (Merkle trees, linked timestamping, ECDSA), and synthesizes the rest (UTXO, mining, 21M cap, P2P).