Natalie Kitro-Eff

You are here, of course, because my colleague at The Times, John Kerry Roo, just published an investigation in which he presents a giant body of evidence gathered over more than a year that points to you being the inventor of Bitcoin, someone who has operated under the alias Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years.

So I'm just going to ask you point blank, are you Satoshi Nakamoto?

So I think I want to bring John into the conversation.

Hi, John.

So I just want to get to some of the specific pieces of evidence in John's story that I found most convincing, again, just as a lay reader here.

One of the things that really struck me was this very systematic analysis that John and our colleague Dylan Friedman, who works with AI and machine learning, discussed.

They combed through thousands of pages of these forum posts and looked at specific kinds of grammatical errors, specific writing ticks, not just one, but a bunch of things.

And they used three separate methods of analysis, and all three came to the same conclusion, which is that you were the number one match out of all of these people in this community to the writings of Satoshi.

What do you make of that, Adam?

I mean, you're basically saying that this is coincidence, but I have to say it does feel as though what John has done goes much further than that.

I mean, it is really robust, the level of, again, multiple analyses that he presents in the story.

Okay, I just want to kind of finish this part of the conversation by just saying, John, I'm gathering that nothing he has said has changed your mind.

Okay.

Well, it seems like we're going to just have to agree to disagree.

Adam, can I get you to address something that you said today on X in response to John's article coming out, which is that I'm quoting you here.

I also don't know who Satoshi is, and I think it's good for Bitcoin that this is the case.

In the broadest sense, why do you think it's good that the founder of Bitcoin remain anonymous?

What do you mean by that?

That's a virtue in your mind.

You know, we should say now that if you are Satoshi, it is in your personal interest also to conceal that.