Lol Of course it's convincing if you believe they can be 99% sure of their conclusion. The problem is that 99% is no more meaningful than 50% in this context. It doesn't give you an actual answer and someone else could easily be 99% sure it's a different person.
The reporter basically decided from the start that he thought it was Adam and then set out to prove it. Weak evidence, clearly doesn’t understand Bitcoin or Satoshi.
Lol. My step grandma sent me the article and thought I’d “be interested in it”. I politely thanked her and then tried to explain that unless Satoshi’s coins are provably moved by someone, it’s all just speculation and sensationalism. She moved on to the next subject pretty quickly.
I’ve been in bitcoin world for awhile and personally Adam has always been my “if I were to guess”, but I listened to “The Dailys” podcast and they had the journalist on who wrote the article break all his findings down, 99.9% sure he’s cracked it. It was pathetic. He’s like “they have the same interests and talk about them the same way”. My dude, tone and writing styles are not even admissible in court without a forensic link from meta data. He basically presented a fancy version of “I have a feeling”.
So, could Adam be Satoshi? Yes. Is this smoking gun evidence? No.
“Who is Satoshi” is one of the only safe angles from which legacy journos feel they can cover Bitcoin.
Too awkward for them to get into the reason for Bitcoin’s existence.
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