According to PANews, Adam Back, the founder of Blockstream, has responded to speculation within the crypto community that he is Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Back addressed these rumors on X, stating that he joined the bitcoin-wizards IRC channel in 2013 to ask numerous technical questions about Bitcoin, such as address balances and UTXOs. He provided IRC channel logs from that time to demonstrate that he was still learning the specifics of Bitcoin then. Back emphasized that although he learns quickly and is creative, he only proposed concepts like Schnorr signatures, confidential transactions, mining decentralization, client-side validation, and sidechains in the latter half of 2013, further proving he is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
Previously, in May 2020, Adam Back had also denied rumors that he was Satoshi Nakamoto.
