John Carreyrou

I mean, that felt like pretty strong evidence to me.

Not necessarily just on its own, but combined with everything else that I'd found, all the other clues and pieces of evidence that I'd accumulated over the course of a year, I felt like, you know, this was kind of the icing on the cake.

So at that point, I felt like I was ready to confront Adam back.

The problem was he wouldn't respond to me.

I sent him several emails and it was radio silence.

And so I figured the better way to go about this was to try and intercept him at one of these Bitcoin conferences that he's always attending throughout the year.

And I noticed that the next one that was coming up was going to be in late January in El Salvador.

So I packed my bags and I flew to San Salvador at the end of January.

Yeah, that's basically what I did.

I mean, I figured, well, maybe I can find him in the speaker's lounge.

So I went over to the speaker's lounge, couldn't get in, and I posted myself not far away and just watched the door like a hawk, hoping that Adam Back would come out of there and that I could accost him.

Yes.

So my stakeout lasted about 30 minutes.

And then, sure enough, Adam Back came out.

with two colleagues and I went up to him, tapped him on the back.

He turned around and he was a little flustered.

He knew who I was, but he was cordial.

And to my surprise, he agreed to meet me for an interview.

Let me just, I want to call up something to use to show you my research.

And I began laying out piece by piece my evidence.