{"id":191597,"date":"2026-04-10T00:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:59:21","slug":"unmasking-the-creator-of-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191597\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmasking the Creator of Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u2013 Adam Back, welcome to \u201cThe Daily.\u201d Thank you so much for coming on the show. \u2013 Of course, thanks for having me on. \u2013 Should I call you Adam or Mr. Back or Mr. Nakamoto? \u2013 Adam is fine. OK . \u2013 It is what everybody\u2019s wondering. You are here, of course, because my colleague at The Times, John Carreyrou, just published an investigation in which he presents a giant body of evidence gathered over more than a year that points to you being the inventor of Bitcoin, someone who has operated under the alias Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. So, I\u2019m just going to ask you point-blank: Are you Satoshi Nakamoto? &#8211; No, I\u2019m not. I think, you know, of course, it\u2019s a fascinating topic as to who this person would be. And all of the sort of circumstantial evidence has been analyzed extensively by, you know, many researchers. So effectively, I think what we\u2019re left with is sort of speculative analysis. And, of course, looking at the historic writings, which John does an interesting job of in the article. \u2013 I think at this point I want to bring John into the conversation. He\u2019s been listening in. Can we get John over here? Do you mind coming? And have him sit next to me. Great. Hi, John. \u2013 Hi. Adam, I just want to set aside for a second the question of whether you\u2019re Satoshi and ask you: If Satoshi were calling in to this show today, and I asked him, \u201cAre you Satoshi?,\u201d do you think he would say yes? \u2013 It\u2019s kind of hypothetical to me, right? Because I\u2019m not. But, I\u2019ve seen a number of people in interview settings being asked that question and saying, they wouldn\u2019t say or something like that. Right? I think because there is some attraction to this idea that Bitcoin is stronger for not having a kind of vocal founder. \u2013 Right. \u2013 So, yeah, I think that\u2019s the common answer. And it sounds logical to me. \u2013 In other words, the common answer would be that that Satoshi calling into the show wouldn\u2019t admit that he\u2019s Satoshi. \u2013 Well,, I mean, I think my assumption is Satoshi would simply decline to participate or, you know, be hard to identify even as a candidate to, you know, to try to contact or bring into an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2013 Adam Back, welcome to \u201cThe Daily.\u201d Thank you so much for coming on the show. \u2013 Of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[76073,16967,39435,9,11,10,75949,33853],"class_list":{"0":"post-191597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-adam-back","9":"tag-bitcoin","10":"tag-john-carreyrou","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-satoshi-nakamoto","15":"tag-the-daily"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}