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Attorney James A. Murphy filed a 2025 FOIA suit seeking DHS files on Agent Rana Saoud's 2019 claim that investigators interviewed four people believed to be behind Bitcoin.
Finding Satoshi (Tooley / Miele, April 2026) names Hal Finney and Len Sassaman as Bitcoin co-creators — Finney coded, Sassaman wrote the paper. Lopp and Back disputed the timing.
Bitcoin Institute reanalysis of van Dorst's stylometric corpus for the five most-cited candidates. Finding: Szabo top at 4.67th percentile of 12,739 authors; 594 unnamed rank closer; corpus is noisy.
Aston University Centre for Forensic Linguistics released Project Bitcoin (April 2014): a stylometric study under Jack Grieve naming Szabo as the most likely whitepaper author among 11 candidates.
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.
On February 22, 2021, Evan Hatch published Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk history on Medium — the most-cited public articulation of the Sassaman = Satoshi Nakamoto hypothesis.
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.
On May 15, 2015, the New York Times published Nathaniel Popper's Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto — a Digital Gold excerpt naming Bit Gold designer Nick Szabo as Satoshi. Szabo denied it.
On April 8, 2026, the New York Times published John Carreyrou's investigation naming Adam Back as the most likely Satoshi based on stylometric analysis. Back denied the identification.