Adam Back Continues to Clarify Identity: Why Is He Associated with Satoshi Nakamoto?

In the cryptocurrency community, Adam Back - the founder of Blockstream - still frequently faces questions about whether he is the person behind the mysterious figure Satoshi Nakamoto. Recently, he officially addressed these speculations on the X platform.

Evidence From IRC History

Adam Back presents a logical argument regarding his participation history in the Bitcoin community. According to him, in 2013, when he joined the IRC channel bitcoin-wizards, he was a newcomer exploring the technical aspects of Bitcoin. This is evidenced by the basic questions he asked at that time, such as how address balances and UTXOs work.

This Blockstream founder even publicly shared IRC channel logs from that period, clearly showing that he was still learning and gaining a better understanding of Bitcoin’s mechanisms during that stage.

Later Contributions Do Not Match

Another convincing piece of evidence is the timing of Adam Back’s proposals for important technical concepts. Suggestions like Schnorr signatures, confidential transactions (, mining decentralization, client-side validation, and sidechains were all introduced by him in the second half of 2013 — that is, after Bitcoin had been created and operational for some time.

This indicates that if Adam Back were Satoshi Nakamoto, he would have had to pretend not to understand the fundamental concepts of his own creation, which makes no sense.

Not the First Time

It should be noted that this is not the first time Adam Back has officially denied these rumors. In May 2020, he also publicly clarified that he is not Satoshi Nakamoto. The consistency of his denials along with the publicly available historical evidence seems to have definitively answered the question of his identity.

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