Bitcoin’s Mystery Creator May Have Been Busted by a Hyphen
April 8, 2026
The Daily Beast
MF3d / Getty ImagesA string of tiny punctuation mistakes might finally crack the world’s biggest crypto whodunit. A lengthy investigation by The New York Times has identified British cryptographer Adam Back as the likely figure behind the pseudonymous Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, with an array of linguistic and technical clues pointing to him—including an unusual pattern of hyphenation errors.
For more than a decade, Satoshi Nakamoto has been the ghost in the blockchain machine, credited with mining over a million coins now worth billions. Analysts have long speculated about the masked creator, but now, investigators combing early crypto forums and Satoshi’s original writings say those quirks line up with Back’s own posts, suggesting the Blockstream CEO may have been mining Bitcoin under a pseudonym.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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