John Carreyrou

@nytimes reporter and bestselling author of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. Send story tips to [email protected]

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Not anymore. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. https://t.co/fPtaK6YHJC

[LaPetite🦋🍄 @LaPetiteADA]

According to The New York Times, I just met Satoshi. 👀🟠
@adam3us @TheBitcoinConf

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

@adam3us @noremacback @DeItaone @halfin @lopp @lensassaman @franfinney @nathanielpopper @nytimes None of it makes any sense. And what about Satoshi’s August 2015 email? Both were dead when it was sent. The real Satoshi is alive and well and… tweeting :)

[Ricky Funk 🧉 @rfunk82]

If you read the book “Bad Blood” from @JohnCarreyrou you know this place

[Sweep @0xSweep]

Before Satoshi disappeared he gave one developer a secret key that could override every single Bitcoin node

It was called the Alert Key

Satoshi added it to Bitcoin in 2010 after the 184 billion coin bug almost killed the entire network

When a valid alert was sent using this key, every Bitcoin client would go into "safe mode" and could freeze transactions

He handed it to Gavin Andresen along with control of the entire code repository right before he vanished

Only three people had access: Satoshi, Gavin Andresen, and Theymos

The key was used 12 times between 2012 and 2014 to broadcast emergency upgrade notices

A decentralized currency with no central authority had a hidden override switch controlled by three people for six years

It wasn't removed until Bitcoin version 0.13.0 in 2016

In 2018 developers published the key publicly so it could never be used again

The most decentralized financial network in history had a backdoor the entire time and almost nobody knew about it

[Subh⚡ 🚀 @subh10]

For those who don’t know,
#Bayesian #inference is the golden standard stats model that updates a hypothesis as new data arrives: 👇

Initial Belief (Prior) + New Evidence (Likelihood) =
Updated Belief (Posterior)

Brilliant job by @JohnCarreyrou 👏 🫡

https://t.co/0sE7K39HPs

[Sweep @0xSweep]

Satoshi's original Bitcoin code had a built in poker game hidden inside it

The first version of Bitcoin released in January 2009 contained a class called CPokerLobbyDialogBase

It had framework code for an on chain poker game, an IRC chat client and a peer to peer marketplace all built into the mining software

The poker code was added on April 16, 2008, months before the whitepaper was even published

It stayed in the codebase for years and wasn't fully removed until Bitcoin version 0.8.2

Nobody knows why Satoshi built a poker game into a digital currency

The code is still visible today on GitHub in the original Bitcoin v0.1 source code, lines 1573 to 1731

[Maximus Maximalistus @maximalistus]

@kurtwuckertjr @JohnCarreyrou @adam3us

[Monu @pandy12587]

@JohnCarreyrou @adam3us This is game, set and match.

[Daniel Steinberg Singer @DanielSingerS]

@JohnCarreyrou @TheStalwart The body language stuff should be a consideration imo. Pro poker players use that all the time as signals.

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

I went on NPR’s All Things Considered today to talk about The Batman, aka @adam3us, aka Satoshi https://t.co/sBfnvA6ZCE

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

It's confirmed: The Batman is Satoshi. (The Batman is @adam3us's new nickname) https://t.co/vqFpQ4iTvf

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

The math doesn't lie, and it says we got it right. https://t.co/vqFpQ4iTvf

[Wayne @buchi_wayne]

@adam3us @JohnCarreyrou @_drgo @DTYME83 @adam3us is definitely Satoshi, I think @JohnCarreyrou did a great job with that article

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

Napkin-Math Bayes: How Strong Is the NYT’s Satoshi Case? https://t.co/vqFpQ4iTvf

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

"Carreyrou’s article is already a narrative version of this Bayesian analysis: he identified the evidence categories, assessed their independence, weighed alternatives, and reached a conclusion. I just added the numbers. His version is more readable than mine. Go read the article."

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

Case closed. https://t.co/vqFpQ4iTvf

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

"The crypto community’s demand for a private-key signature, while understandable given the history of failed identifications, sets a very high bar. The circumstantial case is still very strong."

[The Sunday Long Read @sundaylongread]

This week's SLR is packed with great reads by @JohnCarreyrou, @dylfreed, @jonathanvswan, @maggieNYT, @RonanFarrow, @andrewmarantz, @klaidlaw, @GSDeutch & more! https://t.co/3Axp2gDtQU