nytimes.com/2015/05/17/business/decoding-the-enigma-of-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-birth-of-bitcoin.html

Those around cypherpunks 1993-1998 will recall Szabo's emails on
bitcoin early precursors along with Adam Back, Hal Finney, Tim May,
Wei Dai, Lucky Green, Hettinga, many more burgeoning F-Cs. NYT
piece credits cpunks as subversive birther, now being hyper-monetized
by arch-cryptoanarchist Goldman Sachs and many more centralists.

Szabo denies being Satoshi, but ... others rush to fill the gap