Adam Back: Still Learning Bitcoin Developer Wasn't Himself in 2013

Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream, responded to the reasons for not being Satoshi Nakamoto in a post stating, “In 2013, I joined the Bitcoin wizards IRC and asked a lot of questions to learn more about Bitcoin. For example, address holding balances vs. utxo coins, etc. The IRC channel is recorded in the logs, so the developers on the channel were sure it wasn't me. I was a fast learner and in late 2013 came up with schnorr signatures, transaction extensibility fixes (similar to segwit), confidential transactions (now used in Liquid Network), commitment TX, pooled decentralization (e.g. stratum V2), client-side validation, sidechaining, and more.