Adam Back Is Just The Latest To Be Wrongly Called Satoshi, And The Guy Who Managed The List Has Some Thoughts

Adam Back might want to consider changing his Twitter bio to "Definitely Not Satoshi, Despite What Reddit Thinks This Week." Perry E. Metzger, the former listmaster of the cryptography mailing list where Bitcoin's creator first dropped the whitepaper like it was a slightly inconvenient homework assignment, is here to pour cold water on the latest Satoshi speculation.

Metzger, who managed the list and has probably seen more wrong guesses than a crypto influencer has price predictions, said it's "doesn't seem likely" that Adam Back is the mysterious Satoshi. In Back, journalists have apparently found their newest flavor of the month - the same flavor they swore they had identified with Hal Finney, Nick Szabo, and what seems like half of the cypherpunk mailing list at this point.

Metzger was characteristically cautious about who might actually be behind the most consequential pseudonymous account in financial history. He noted that Satoshi speculation isn't just harmless internet fun - it can have serious real-world consequences. "They could become targets for wealth they don't actually possess," he warned, which is a polite way of saying someone might get kidnapped for coins that are currently doing nothing more than watching Netflix on some forgotten wallet. You know, like when your mom asks what you're doing with your degree.

He also made the point that Satoshi hasn't committed any crimes, hasn't moved a single satoshi from those ancient wallets, and has maintained the most impressive disappearances since that guy from your college friend group who owed everyone money. Metzger thinks this decades-long commitment to