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In 2013, two Israeli mathematicians, Dorit Ron and [[Adi Shamir]], published a paper claiming a link between Nakamoto and [[Ross Ulbricht]]. The two based their suspicion on an analysis of the network of Bitcoin transactions,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Markoff, John |date=23 November 2013 |title=Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto |work=[[New York Times]] |url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/study-suggests-link-between-dread-pirate-roberts-and-satoshi-nakamoto |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131125093841/http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/study-suggests-link-between-dread-pirate-roberts-and-satoshi-nakamoto/ |archive-date=25 November 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> but later retracted their claim.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wile, Rob |title=Researchers Retract Claim of Link Between Alleged Silk Road Mastermind And Founder of Bitcoin |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/silk-road-satoshi-paper-retraction-2013-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326211601/http://www.businessinsider.com/silk-road-satoshi-paper-retraction-2013-11 |archive-date=26 March 2014 |access-date=17 December 2013 |website=Business Week |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
In 2016, the ''[[Financial Times]]'' said that Nakamoto might have been a group of people, mentioning Hal Finney, Nick Szabo and [[Adam Back]] as potential members.<ref name="FT2016">{{Cite news |last=Kaminska |first=Izabella |date=7 May 2016 |title=Bitcoin: Identity crisis |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/769cc516-1370-11e6-839f-2922947098f0 |access-date=4 June 2020}}</ref> In 2020, the YouTube channel ''Barely Sociable'' claimed that Adam Back, inventor of Bitcoin predecessor [[Hashcash]], is Nakamoto.<ref>Barely Sociable. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcvX0P1b5g "Bitcoin - Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto".] ''[[YouTube]]'', 11 May 2020.</ref> Since 2020, Charles Hoskinson (founder of Cardano and co-founder of Ethereum) has also stated that Back
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Charles Hoskinson. {{YouTube |id=U43ewK1tyv0 |title="Surprise AMA 01/22-23/2021" |time=01:00:00}}, Jan 23, 2021
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Charles Hoskinson. {{YouTube |id=lFw-3wynj-o |title="Adam Back is Satoshi Nakamoto {{!}} Charles Hoskinson and Lex Fridman"}}, June 20, 2021</ref> Back subsequently denied this.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kharif |first=Olga |date=2 June 2020 |title=Latest Satoshi Nakamoto Candidate Buying Bitcoin No Matter What |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-02/latest-satoshi-nakamoto-candidate-buying-bitcoin-no-matter-what |access-date=2 June 2020 |website=Bloomberg News}}</ref>
[[Elon Musk]] denied he was Nakamoto in a tweet on 28 November 2017, responding to speculation the previous week in a [[Medium (website)|Medium]] post by a former [[SpaceX]] intern.<ref>{{bulleted list
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