John Carreyrou

The first one was we looked for the people who sometimes put two spaces between sentences like Satoshi did.

And that eliminated 58 people and left us with 562 suspects.

Then we screened for posters who used British spellings.

That narrowed our pool to 434.

Then we screened for posters who sometimes confused its and its, or vice versa.

Mm-hmm.

That narrowed our pool to 114.

Yep.

Then we screened for those who sometimes finished sentences with also.

That further shrank the field to 56.

Okay.

Then we used another series of Satoshi ticks.

That brought us down to eight suspects.

Wow.

And then we did one last round of filtering, which was that Satoshi ticks

alternated between email without a hyphen and email with a hyphen, between electronic cash spelled out and e-cash abbreviated and hyphenated, between the American Czech, C-H-E-C-K, and the British Czech, C-H-E-Q-U-E.

And Satoshi also alternated between the British and American forms of the word optimize.

He used a Z sometimes and an S other times.

When we screened our remaining eight for those who did the same things that Satoshi did, we were down to just one person.

Adam Beck.