John Carreyrou

And before I could explain why I was bringing it up,

He interjects.

So I felt like he had slipped.

I felt like the mask had fallen for a few seconds and he had become Satoshi.

Well, not according to him because, of course, I emailed him about it, and he emailed me back saying, no, it wasn't a slip.

I was just responding to the general observation that people often make that technical people are sometimes better with code than with words.

And my reaction to that explanation was, what?

I wasn't talking about a general observation.

I was talking about a Satoshi quote, and I suspect that Bach knew that and that he was BSing me.

Well, that's a great question.

I'd say the biggest reason by far is the fact that Satoshi mined 1.1 million Bitcoins in Bitcoin's early days.

That's a fortune that at today's prices is worth somewhere between 70 and 80 billion dollars.

Whoa.

It would make him one of the richest people in the world, if I'm right, that Adam Back is Satoshi.

And if people know he's that rich and know that he holds that fortune in crypto as opposed to in a bank account, then that could easily make him a target of what's known in the industry as a wrench attack.

These attacks are when people kidnap people.

people who have a lot of crypto and extort them.

And there have been many in the past two years in Europe and the U.S.

And so there's real reason for him to fear that.

Right.