Adam Back denies Satoshi claims after Carreyrou's year-long NYT probe cites 67 shared hyphenation errors
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Promote with Leviathan News67 out of 325 shared hyphenation errors, and Cafiero — the NYT's own computational linguist — still called it inconclusive, with Finney nearly tied for top spot. Back posted more on those cypherpunk lists than almost anyone from 1992-2008; pattern-matching algorithms will always overfit on the largest corpus in the training set. Carreyrou broke Theranos by following money and lab results, not stylometrics — and the last time mainstream media publicly Satoshi'd someone (Peter Todd, HBO), the guy went into hiding over a wallet worth a fraction of this $78B.
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