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• New Satoshi Nakamoto emails just dropped, thanks to the COPA vs. Wright lawsuit, revealing early communications with Adam Back for the first time!

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New/early Satoshi Nakamoto emails just dropped, thanks to the COPA vs. Wright lawsuit!

(ICYMI: Satoshi Nakamoto was the pseudonymous figure(s) responsible for creating Bitcoin — who hasn’t been heard from since 2010).

You can read them here, and here:

Our biggest takeaway:

For anyone that watched Nexpo’s ‘Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto’ series on YouTube and became immediately convinced that Adam Back was Satoshi (guilty 🙋), based off factors including, but not limited to:

The fact that Adam’s ‘hash cash’ technology was the basis for Bitcoin/blockchain tech in general (and was referenced in the Bitcoin white paper), but there was no known communication between the two.

…well, consider this a crack in that theory’s foundation.