From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Ketroef.

This is The Daily.

It's been one of the world's biggest mysteries and best-kept secrets.

Who is the inventor of Bitcoin?

This is a person who's been known only by an alias, Satoshi Nakamoto.

And despite many attempts to unmask him, he's remained anonymous for 17 years, even as his

creation spawned a whole system of cryptocurrency, revolutionized finance, and minted a powerful

new class of billionaires, including Satoshi himself.

Today, we talked to our colleague, John Carirou, who says he thinks he found Satoshi.

And then we talk directly to that person.

It's Thursday, April 9th.

Hi, John. Welcome to the studio.

Thanks for having me.

John, you've just finished this truly extraordinary investigation, and I am obsessed with it. I can't stop thinking about it. It is incredible.

Thank you. So, I want to start with a really basic

question. What percent convinced are you that you have identified Satoshi Nakamoto? Somewhere between

99.5 percent and 100 percent. Okay. That's pretty good. So say why that matters. The inventor of Bitcoin,

known as Satoshi Nakamoto, has been unmasked after all these years. Well, I think Bitcoin,

it's fair to say, is one of the greatest financial innovations of the past few decades. It's

created this new currency. It's made

the concept of a decentralized currency on the internet that is available all over the world that can

bypass governments and banks possible. It's spawned a $2.4 trillion industry.

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