John Carreyrou

At one point, I pressed him hard on the fact that there was no trace of him for three years on the cryptography list and that that coincided exactly with when Satoshi was active.

And so so that's what seems so fishy to me, someone like you who outlined most aspects of Bitcoin 10 years before Bitcoin was created, who almost systematically chimed in when there were e-cash discussions on both lists.

When this white paper, which basically makes your vision happen, gets announced on the list, you're AWOL.

And as I started unspooling my evidence, his face began to redden.

And he got pretty agitated and defensive.

And he said something like, well, that doesn't prove anything.

We did a hyphenation analysis and you came out as the top match.

You had 67 exact matches to Satoshi hyphenation errors and you were a huge outlier.

The next guy had 38.

So he denied being Satoshi something like a half dozen times or more during the interview.

But one of the denials was phrased in what I thought was a very interesting way.

He said, I'm not Satoshi.

That's my position.

Yes.

And I thought to myself, yeah, well, that doesn't sound like a statement grounded in fact.

It sounds like a rhetorical argument.

Right.

But then he quickly caught himself and said something like, and it happens to be true, by the way.

If there's anything that I haven't brought up, I will definitely send it to you by email.

So the meeting ended on a cordial note.