🚨 Adam Back on the question of whether he is Satoshi Nakamoto: For context, Adam Back is a British cryptographer and one of the pioneers of the cypherpunk movement. He is the inventor of Hashcash in 1997, the proof-of-work system that directly inspired Bitcoin’s mining mechanism. Adam is one of the few references cited in Satoshi’s whitepaper. He later co-founded Blockstream, one of the most influential companies in the Bitcoin ecosystem. But above all, some have suspected him of being Satoshi Nakamoto—he has always denied it.