So Adam Back is now publicly denying that he's Satoshi Nakamoto after the New York Times dropped a report suggesting he might be Bitcoin's creator. Pretty wild timing honestly.

Back is a legit cryptographer and cypherpunk who created Hashcash way back, so he's definitely got the technical chops. But he's been pretty vocal about pushing back on the Satoshi Nakamoto speculation. The whole identity mystery around Bitcoin's creator has been one of crypto's biggest unsolved questions for years, and people keep throwing names out there.

It's interesting because even though Back has the credentials and the history in the space that could theoretically fit, he's consistently denied it. Makes you wonder what the Times actually found that prompted them to run the story in the first place. The Satoshi Nakamoto question has been debated forever, and we're probably never going to know for sure at this point.

Anyone else following this or just me?