Over time, suspicion fell on the influential British computer scientist AdamBack... Adam Back was a member of a privacy- focused, anarchist group in the 1990s that sought ways to break free from government control and censorship.
Blockstream’s AdamBack discusses why people think he’s Satoshi Nakamoto, while the CEO of OKXEurope said MiCA is “extremely beneficial” for the industry at the latest LONGITUDE event in Paris... .
AdamBack has dismissed a new attempt to identify Bitcoin’s creator, calling the latest theory around Hal Finney and Len Sassaman “strange” and internally inconsistent ... — Adam Back (@adam3us) April 22, 2026 ... That is why Back’s dismissal matters.
Back said the safest approach is to build optional upgrades that would allow Bitcoin to migrate to quantum-resistant cryptography once it's needed ... .
The Blockstream CEO told Paris Blockchain Week that Bitcoin should build quantum-resistant upgrades now, a day after Jameson Lopp proposed freezing vulnerable coins instead ... .
Back said at Paris Blockchain Week that Bitcoin’s post-quantum shift may reveal the true size of the stash held by Satoshi Nakamoto, estimated at between 500,000 and 1 million BTC... .
AdamBack proposed optional quantum-resistance upgrades for Bitcoin, in contrast to BIP-361, which calls for a forced freeze of vulnerable coins ... Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream, presented at Paris ...