Who is the real human behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the still-anonymous creator of Bitcoin? If Satoshi (as he is universally known) is still alive, he's spent years sitting on about $68 billion worth of Bitcoin. We've even seen a Satoshi memoir announced (likely fake — whomever Satoshi is, he hasn't written anything under that name since 2011). The Times claim relies in part on an AI examination of early cryptography listservs where Satoshi was active; the AI noted that both Back and Satoshi mixed up their "its" and "it's" and shared a common vocabulary. Back also tweeted an image he'd sent years earlier, one that emphasized the decentralized nature of Bitcoin: "we are all Satoshi."

Source: The Times April 08, 2026 22:17 UTC