According to BlockBeats, on October 8, Adam Back responded to speculation that he was Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin, on a social platform. He said that he entered the bitcoin-wizards IRC channel in 2013 to ask questions about Bitcoin technology, and provided the channel log at the time, indicating that he was still learning about Bitcoin at the time.

Adam Back pointed out that he only proposed concepts such as Schnorr signatures, confidential transactions, decentralized mining, client verification, and side chains in the second half of 2013, further proving that he is not Satoshi Nakamoto.