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why not adam back? the evidence in favor of adam dwarfs other candidates.

• spense 2y ago
  honestly, i thought we settled on Adam Back as Satoshi: - adam was extremely active during the early cypherpunk days, when - he invented Hashcash, which bitcoin cites in its whitepaper and used as its PoW - he was the first to take Wei Dai's b-money proposal seriously and discusses combining it with hashcash (the 2 core elements of bitcoin) - he disappeared and reappeared professionally during the exact timeframe of bitcoin development - his writing closely matches satoshi's (british english + style/punctuation) - he had no public involvement with bitcoin until he joined Bitcointalk forums in 2013 and suddenly had intimate details of unknown bugs in bitcoin saying "I thought I'd fixed them". - he started Blockstream with the mission to ensure the survival of bitcoin (funded lighting, paid core devs, etc) - he recently helped nail the coffin on Craig Wright's case in court proving he was not satoshi, during which - he revealed the earliest known email correspondence with satoshi watch the interview were he uncomfortably describes himself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=688J9UZJxKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=688J9UZJxKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcvX0P1b5g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcvX0P1b5g