{"id":12261,"date":"2026-04-21T05:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/is-satoshi-nakamoto-really-adam-back-html\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:03:31","slug":"is-satoshi-nakamoto-really-adam-back-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/is-satoshi-nakamoto-really-adam-back-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Is \u201cSatoshi Nakamoto\u201d Really Adam Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Is \u201cSatoshi Nakamoto\u201d Really Adam Back?<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <i>New York Times<\/i> has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/08\/business\/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html\">long article<\/a> where the author lays out an impressive array of circumstantial evidence that the inventor of Bitcoin is the cypherpunk Adam Back.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know. The article is convincing, but it\u2019s written to be convincing.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t remember if I ever met Adam. I was a member of the Cypherpunks mailing list for a while, but I was never really an active participant. I spent more time on the Usenet newsgroup sci.crypt. I knew a bunch of the Cypherpunks, though, from various conferences around the world at the time. I really have no opinion about who Satoshi Nakamoto really is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/04\/is-satoshi-nakamoto-really-adam-back.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is \u201cSatoshi Nakamoto\u201d Really Adam Back? The New York Times has a long article where the author lays out an impressive array of circumstantial evidence that the inventor of Bitcoin is the cypherpunk Adam Back. I don\u2019t know. The article is convincing, but it\u2019s written to be convincing. I can\u2019t remember if I ever met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2437,57,282,2438,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-12261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-bruce-schneier","category-cryptocurrency","category-pseudonymity","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}