Adam ‘Not Satoshi’ Back Is at Peace With Wall Street Crypto Era

Adam Back has spent weeks being asked yet again, in various forums and by various people, whether he is the inventor of Bitcoin.

He is not, he says. He has been saying so for years and again since the New York Times suggested in early April, after dissecting writings from the early cypherpunk era, that he was the most credible candidate yet for Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous figure who released Bitcoin’s design paper in 2008 and disappeared in 2011. A documentary released weeks later proposed two other candidates. Back has done what he usually does, which is to deny the attribution, explain why people keep making it, and return to work.