Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.
8 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
The hypothesis that Adam Back (Hashcash inventor, first Satoshi contact) was Satoshi. Frame: April 2026 NYT stylometric investigation by Carreyrou. Counter: Back's 2024 COPA v Wright sworn testimony.
On April 13, 2024, Bas van Dorst published Where is Satoshi?, a large-scale stylometric corpus comparing Satoshi against 75,000+ cryptography mailing-list authors and 70,000+ Reddit commenters.
The hypothesis that Hal Finney — RPOW author and Dorian Nakamoto's Temple City neighbor — was Satoshi. Frame: Greenberg 2014 Forbes "Nakamoto's Neighbor." Counter: April 18, 2009 race-day alibi.
On December 1, 2013, blogger Skye Grey published Satoshi Nakamoto is (probably) Nick Szabo — the first public stylometric study naming Szabo as Satoshi, reported by TechCrunch on December 5.
The hypothesis that Nick Szabo (Bit Gold creator, "smart contracts" coiner) was Satoshi. Frame: Skye Grey 2013 stylometric article. Counter: Szabo's 2008 Bit Gold help request and self-denials.
Comparison of recurring Satoshi candidates aligned in a seven-dimension profile table. The Individual column links each candidate's hypothesis page; this entry names no leading candidate.
Reads the asymmetry between public attempts to identify Satoshi, the surviving material trail, and the persistent identification gap. Companion entry to the identity-hypotheses overview.
The hypothesis that Wei Dai — b-money author (whitepaper ref [1]) and Crypto++ creator — was Satoshi. Counter: Aug 22, 2008 email reads as third-party reception; 2014 AALWA self-distinction.