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Hashcash's inventor and the first person Satoshi contacted. In April 2026 the NYT named him the closest stylometric match among 620 cryptography-mailing-list writers. The evidence, weighed.
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.
Adam Back's retrospective framing of his pre-Bitcoin cypherpunk activity, posted in response to a NYT investigation naming him as a leading stylometric match to Satoshi.
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.
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.