honestly, i thought we settled on Adam Back as Satoshi:
- adam was extremely active during the early cypherpunk days, when
- he invented Hashcash, which bitcoin cites in its whitepaper and used as its PoW
- he was the first to take Wei Dai's b-money proposal seriously and discusses combining it with hashcash (the 2 core elements of bitcoin)
- he disappeared and reappeared professionally during the exact timeframe of bitcoin development
- his writing closely matches satoshi's (british english + style/punctuation)
- he had no public involvement with bitcoin until he joined Bitcointalk forums in 2013 and suddenly had intimate details of unknown bugs in bitcoin saying "I thought I'd fixed them".
- he started Blockstream with the mission to ensure the survival of bitcoin (funded lighting, paid core devs, etc)
- he recently helped nail the coffin on Craig Wright's case in court proving he was not satoshi, during which
- he revealed the earliest known email correspondence with satoshi
watch the interview were he uncomfortably describes himself
