John Carreyrou

He was pathologically incapable of using hyphens correctly.

You know who else was pathologically incapable of using hyphens correctly?

Adam Back.

And it wasn't just hyphens.

Satoshi had a habit of confusing its...

I mean, who among us, but yes.

And he sometimes put also at the end of sentences.

Adam backed the exact same thing.

There turned out to be a lot of similarities.

So if you find one instance of similarities, it's not necessarily something you can hang your hat on.

It's not enough on its own.

But if you find a bunch...

then it becomes more significant.

And I talked to a forensic expert at Hofstra who ended up telling me that what I had done, the way it homed in on certain words and phrases that Satoshi uses is exactly what he does when he's working on cases where he's trying to identify a writer.

Yeah.

It turned out that grammar was a key part of this investigation.

I also talked to an expert in this thing called stylometry.

What's that?

That relies on basically the distance between function words...

in someone's prose, function words, or small words like to and from and but, to basically establish a stylistic fingerprint.