Natalie Kitro-Eff

From The New York Times, I'm Natalie Kitro-Eff.

This is The Daily.

It's been one of the world's biggest mysteries and best-kept secrets.

Who is the inventor of Bitcoin?

This is a person who's been known only by an alias, Satoshi Nakamoto.

And despite many attempts to unmask him, he's remained anonymous for 17 years, even as his creation spawned a whole system of cryptocurrency, revolutionized finance, and minted a powerful new class of billionaires, including Satoshi himself.

Today, we talk to our colleague, John Carreyrou, who says he thinks he found Satoshi.

And then we talk directly to that person.

It's Thursday, April 9th.

Hi, John.

Welcome to the studio.

John, you've just finished this truly extraordinary investigation, and I am obsessed with it.

I can't stop thinking about it.

It is incredible.

So, I want to start with a really basic question.

What percent convinced are you that you have identified Satoshi Nakamoto?

Okay, that's pretty good.

So, say why that matters.

The inventor of Bitcoin, known as Satoshi Nakamoto, has been unmasked after all these years.

And just talk about Satoshi, the alias of the founder of Bitcoin, and the long history of these efforts to identify who he is.