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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 dispute 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.
HBO documentary Money Electric (Cullen Hoback) named Peter Todd as a Satoshi candidate, citing a 2010 BitcoinTalk reply about RBF and Todd's later BIP 125. Todd called the claim ludicrous.
On February 22, 2021, Evan Hatch published Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk history on Medium — the article that became the foundational case for the Sassaman = Satoshi Nakamoto hypothesis.
Craig Wright declared himself Satoshi in coordinated interviews with the BBC, The Economist and GQ. The cryptographic proof on his blog was soon debunked: he had reused a 2009 transaction signature.
Wired and Gizmodo simultaneously publish articles identifying Australian computer scientist Craig Steven Wright as the probable creator of Bitcoin, based on leaked documents and emails.
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.
March 25, 2014 Forbes feature: Andy Greenberg followed the Temple City coincidence to Hal Finney, then dropped the theory after seeing Finney's 2009 emails with Satoshi and his wallet record.
Newsweek publishes 'The Face Behind Bitcoin,' identifying Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a 64-year-old Japanese-American man living in Temple City, California, as Bitcoin's creator.
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.
One 2013 sentence praised Bitcoin's engineering and predicted governments would keep the upper hand. Gates's criticism since — anonymity, speculation, energy — never touched the design.
Mihai Alisie and Vitalik Buterin launched Bitcoin Magazine in 2012; first print issue May 2012. Grew out of Buterin's writing for the Bitcoin Weekly blog; became a long-running Bitcoin outlet.
Benjamin Wallace's Wired feature — an early major mainstream article on Bitcoin. Traces the whitepaper, mining boom, Mt. Gox hack, and growing pains, ending with Garzik's "We really don't care."
One of the first major print magazine features on Bitcoin. Greenberg interviews Andresen, who calls Bitcoin "better gold than gold." Satoshi's withdrawal signals predate it by seven months.
Satoshi delegates press and media responsibilities to Gavin Andresen, emphasizing the importance of building a good relationship with the EFF.
Gavin offers to handle press inquiries from Rainey, asks whether Satoshi wants to deal with media, and warns that ignoring journalists would let outsiders become Bitcoin's spokesperson.
One of Satoshi's last posts. After a PC World article tied Bitcoin to WikiLeaks, Satoshi wrote that WikiLeaks had 'kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.'
Slashdot, an influential tech news site at the time, publishes an article about Bitcoin v0.3. SourceForge downloads jump from 624 in June to 14,094 in July.
Bitcoin v0.3 was released on SourceForge with JSON-RPC control, a daemon version, Mac OS X support, and 20% faster hashing, coinciding with the famous Slashdot posting.
Satoshi critiques a Slashdot submission draft, rejecting the 'anonymous' framing and 'stable-with-respect-to-energy' claims, noting how hard it is to describe Bitcoin for general audiences.
Neil McAllister's InfoWorld roundup gave Bitcoin four paragraphs on May 24, 2010, naming Satoshi and the word "cryptocurrency." Downloads rose for three days, then fell back.
Doubters called it unscalable in 2008. A famed hacker failed to break the code. A judge, a dictionary, and a Nobel nominator weighed in. What others said about Satoshi, read as one record.
British cryptographer and cypherpunk (born 1970) who invented Hashcash (1997). The first known person Satoshi contacted about Bitcoin (August 20, 2008). Co-founded Blockstream in 2014.