As bitcoin is gradually accepted into the mainstream financial ecosystem, a new investigation has fingered British cryptographer Adam Back as the cryptocurrency’s creator. Chris Stokel-Walker asks if the discovery can be trusted, and why finding out is so important O ne of the internet ’s longest-running mysteries – the inventor of bitcoin’s identity – has a new leading suspect. In a major New York Times investigation , the paper argues that Satoshi Nakamoto , the pseudonymous creator of

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