BroadChain News, April 26, 21:06, according to BeInCrypto, Hashcash inventor and early Bitcoin developer Adam Back publicly questioned a new documentary about Satoshi Nakamoto, pointing out fundamental technical errors in its analysis of early mining patterns and coin ownership. Back stated on X platform that the "Patoshi Pattern" statistical method relied upon by the documentary is unreliable, because 60%-80% of the hashrate in Bitcoin's first year came from other miners. As the network expanded, this pattern gradually became lost in the noise and could not be precisely attributed.
Back specifically refuted the documentary's core assumption that "Satoshi Nakamoto never sold a single Bitcoin." He pointed out that even if the Patoshi Pattern could identify blocks mined by Satoshi in the early days, it could not prove that these coins were never moved. Satoshi could have easily prioritized selling later-mined coins with more ambiguous ownership, thus evading pattern tracking. This logic directly undermines the documentary's narrative foundation, which uses "unsold coins" to infer that Satoshi is deceased.
Back also highlighted contradictions in the documentary's timeline evidence: Hal Finney was running a marathon when Satoshi sent test transactions, but after this evidence was refuted, the producers shifted their focus to Len Sassaman without explaining why the original evidence was invalid. Additionally, Sassaman did not know C++, never owned a Windows computer, and was a critic of Bitcoin during his lifetime—facts that make him highly unlikely as a Satoshi candidate. Back believes the documentary suffers from a typical logical flaw of "reaching a conclusion before finding evidence," and the ambiguity of early mining data cannot support any definitive conclusions about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity.