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Was Adam Back Satoshi? Examining the Hashcash inventor hypothesis

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.

Bitcoin SV splits from Bitcoin Cash — Wright and Ayre's 'original protocol' chain (November 2018)

Bitcoin SV (Satoshi Vision) split from Bitcoin Cash on November 15, 2018, after a hash war between the Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV factions. The SV chain restored larger blocks and 'original' opcodes.

Bitcoin Cash splits at block 478558 — the block-size war's first surviving fork (August 2017)

Bitcoin Cash forked from Bitcoin at block 478558, mined by ViaBTC around 12:37 UTC. The 8 MB, no-SegWit chain became the first protocol fork to leave a lasting separate network.

Bitcoin XT launches the block-size war — Hearn and Andresen propose 8 MB blocks (August 2015)

Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen released Bitcoin XT 0.11A, a Bitcoin Core fork implementing BIP 101 — 8 MB blocks doubling every two years. The launch opened the public phase of the block-size war.

Why Bitcoin's fork wars were not OSS fork wars — the vacuum Satoshi left, the money on top, and the three layers that bind

Why Bitcoin's 2015-2017 fork wars ran as identity contests, not OSS disputes: the post-2011 authority vacuum, the economic weight on rule choices, and the three layers that bound code to currency.

Was Hal Finney Satoshi? Examining the RPOW author and first-recipient hypothesis

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.

Dogecoin launches as a meme — Markus and Palmer fork Litecoin (December 2013)

Markus and Palmer launched Dogecoin on December 6, 2013 as a Litecoin fork around the 'Doge' Shiba Inu meme. Initially a satire of crypto speculation, it grew into a top-10 cryptocurrency.

Was Nick Szabo Satoshi? Examining the Bit Gold lineage and stylometric arguments

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.

Was Kaneko Isamu Satoshi? Examining the Winny developer hypothesis

The Japanese-language hypothesis that Isamu Kaneko (Winny P2P developer, prosecuted from 2004, died July 2013) was Satoshi. Counter: criminal-case scrutiny, English-register difference.

Bitcoin Magazine launches — first dedicated Bitcoin print publication (May 2012)

Mihai Alisie and Vitalik Buterin launched Bitcoin Magazine in 2012; first print issue May 2012. Originated from Alisie's Bitcoin Weekly blog, became a long-running Bitcoin journalism outlet.

Litecoin launches as 'silver to Bitcoin's gold' — Charlie Lee forks Bitcoin with Scrypt PoW (October 2011)

Charlie Lee launched Litecoin on October 13, 2011 as a Bitcoin-codebase fork with Scrypt PoW, 2.5-minute blocks, and 84 M cap. He framed it as 'silver to Bitcoin's gold'.

Dan Kaminsky's Len Sassaman tribute embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain

After Len Sassaman's death (July 3, 2011), security researcher Dan Kaminsky embedded an ASCII-art tribute into the Bitcoin blockchain, announced July 30 and revealed at Black Hat USA 2011.

Was Len Sassaman Satoshi? Final communications three months before his death

The hypothesis that Len Sassaman (cypherpunk cryptographer, died July 3, 2011) was Satoshi. Frame: timing argument and cypherpunk credentials. Counter: no direct documentary link, no widow comment.

Namecoin launches as the first altcoin — Vincent Durham realizes the BitDNS proposal (April 2011)

Vincent Durham launched Namecoin on April 18, 2011 — the first altcoin and first fork of the Bitcoin codebase. It implemented the BitDNS proposal as a decentralized name registration system.

Satoshi tells Andresen he is working on other projects (September 2010)

In September 2010, Satoshi privately tells Andresen he is working on other projects — the earliest documented signal of his intent to step back. He soon handed Andresen the repository and alert key.

Bitcoin's family tree: forks, altcoins, and the mainline Bitcoin that endured

Genealogy of every Bitcoin protocol fork that left a separate chain alive (Bitcoin Cash, SV, Gold) and the adjacent cryptocurrencies derived from Bitcoin (Namecoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin).

Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto: 10 Geniuses and the Mystery of the Century

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.

Why hasn't Satoshi been found? An asymmetry analysis of the public record

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 anonymity nobody could strip — the six-layered wall Satoshi built

Structural reading of how "Satoshi Nakamoto" remained unidentified across development, public phase, and withdrawal. Six layers: pseudonym, channels, language, env, genesis constants, handover.

Bitcoin did not appear from nowhere — inheritance and invention

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

Was Wei Dai Satoshi? Examining the b-money author and Crypto++ creator hypothesis

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.