John Carreyrou, the guy who took down Theranos, spent a year on this one. The case is genuinely the most methodical Satoshi ID attempt yet. • Back blueprinted every core Bitcoin concept on Cypherpunk lists a decade before Bitcoin launched • He went silent on those lists exactly when Satoshi appeared, resurfaced right after Satoshi vanished • Text analysis of 134,000+ posts across three crypto mailing lists, filtered by writing quirks like British spellings and hyphenation patterns, narrowed 34,000 users down to one name: Back • When confronted in person, Back denied it but allegedly slipped into first person responding to a Satoshi quote • His 2008 emails with Satoshi are the only anomalous ones in the record, full of contradictions Back himself has acknowledged don't add up • He refused to provide metadata for those emails Still think there's a real case for Hal Finney, or that Satoshi was a group. But this buries "Money Electric" and the Peter Todd theory completely.