John Carreyrou

We shook hands like two chess players who had just had a hard-fought match.

And as I watched him walk away, there was something that nagged at me.

Because toward the end of the interview, we had spent two hours together in his hotel room conversing.

And toward the end of that two hours, he had said something that

that I felt certain had implied that he was Satoshi.

And in the moment, I remember feeling a little jolt and looking up at him, but I couldn't remember when it was in the interview.

It wasn't until a few days later when I was back in New York, listening to the interview again, that I found that moment.

And what was it?

So I was bringing up...

Things that Satoshi had written that were similar to things that Bach had written.

And I bring up this Satoshi quote.

There's a quote that I mentioned earlier where Satoshi says, I'm better with code than with words.

Mm-hmm.

But before I had a chance to explain why I was bringing it up, he interrupted me.

And he said, well, something like, for someone who's bad with words, I sure did a lot of yakking on these mailing lists.

Yeah.

And to me, it sounded like he was saying, I wrote that quote.

I had made crystal clear that I was quoting Satoshi.

I said, this is a Satoshi quote.

And then I read the Satoshi quote.