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The New York Times published a year-long investigation on April 8, 2026, identifying British cryptographer Adam Back as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto based on stylometric analysis of 134,000 mailing list posts. Back, the 55-year-old CEO of Blockstream and inventor of Bitcoin precursor Hashcash, denied the claim more than six times in a filmed interview, calling the evidence "confirmation bias" — while the crypto community largely condemned the report as circumstantial and potentially dangerous to Back's safety.