Weekly Roundup 04/10/26 (New Satoshi candidates, Mythos' 0-days, CZ's memoir) (EP.713)

Key Takeaways

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  NYT Satoshi report on Adam Back is unconvincing

  “I found the actual statistical analysis to be incredibly weak because the way you'd really do it is you'd have the corpus of all the Satoshi candidates and then all of Satoshi's work, and then you would just compare it systematically. You wouldn't say, well, let's assume it's this guy, and let's find the things that match.”

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  Len Sassaman remains a top Satoshi candidate

  “The most compelling piece, I think, is that one of the citations in the white paper is this, paper that was it was the result of a conference that was held in Belgium or Luxembourg. And the conference proceedings, the written version was only made available in a couple universities in the region. And and, of course, Len, he studied in Belgium.”

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  Satoshi might be a group of individuals

  “I'm actually I'm warming up to that because I what I did this morning was I had Claude and chat review all the evidence again, and chat actually ran for two hours. I went through the evidence for the kind of, you know, 10 most commonly named candidates. It doesn't fit any of them, and I am actually starting to believe that for that reason, that it it might have been more than one person.”

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  Quantum threats may force Satoshi to reappear

  “As this quantum thing gets closer, you're gonna wanna probably, you know, do something to preserve your coins so it don't get stolen by a quantum attacker. If you are alive, you definitely have an obligation and, this urgency to weigh in either recovery of coins or at a very minimum, just make your feelings known.”

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  Upcoming documentary Finding Satoshi seeks the creator

  “There is, another investigation coming out soon that I've been made aware of. Finding Satoshi. Coinbase is involved. Jameson Lopf, I think, said it was actually a reasonable attempt, which in my book, Jameson is the barometer of whether a Satoshi discovery is legitimate or not.”

Episode Description

Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode:  The New York Times thinks Adam Back is Satoshi The problems with the NYT's analysis The case for Len Sassaman The case for Satoshi not being alive Could Satoshi be a group? Why Satoshi might be discovered this year Morgan Stanley launches their Bitcoin ETF Scott Bessent asks for Congress to pass Clarity The White House finds that stablecoin yield would not harm the banking system Kalshi secures a key win in a NJ appeals court Anthropic's Mythos model is exposing vulnerabilities CZ is publishing a memoir Will Hormuz tolls be payable in Bitcoin?