An open investigation
Is Come-from-Beyond Satoshi Nakamoto?
Sergey Ivancheglo — the cryptographer behind NXT, IOTA and Qubic — and the case, for and against, that he created Bitcoin. Every claim links to the primary sources, and the sources are all searchable here.
Come-from-Beyond is one of crypto's most documented figures: years of BitcoinTalk posts, tens of thousands of Discord messages, a shelf of Medium essays. He has been suspected of being Satoshi Nakamoto for a long time — and he plays with the question rather than answering it.
This site doesn't claim to have solved it. It lays out the threads — the habits, the knowledge, the timing, the tells — and weighs each one honestly. Some point toward him. Some point away. You decide.
The evidence
16 threads, each weighed on its own.
The blueprint, written before Bitcoin
Around 2000–2002, a young Sergey Ivancheglo published two articles: one on solving tasks across many strangers' computers, one on hiding — and proving — authorship inside code. Together they read like Bitcoin's prerequisites.
The CPU-mining obsession
CFB and Satoshi share an unusual, specific conviction — that ordinary CPUs, not GPUs, are what mining should protect.
He knew the 32 MiB → 1 MiB secret
CFB recalled, confidently and repeatedly, an obscure 2010 detail about Bitcoin's block-size limit — and why Satoshi set it.
He knew how Satoshi hid changes in code
CFB described a specific, verifiable habit in Satoshi's earliest commits — shipping a feature dormant, then quietly switching it on inside an unrelated commit.
The 2011 browser miner (proto-Qubic)
Eight days after joining BitcoinTalk, CFB was already building a system to harvest strangers' browsers for computation — the 2002 article, made real.
He ran the Satoshi playbook again — as BCNext
In 2013 CFB invented an anonymous founder, shipped a currency, then deliberately deleted the persona — promising to return "under his real name." Sound familiar?
The man who beats stylometry
The main tool used to hunt Satoshi is writing-style analysis. CFB wrote about it before Bitcoin — and is documented actively defeating it.
Money was never the point
The hardest fact about Satoshi — a billion dollars left untouched — fits CFB's worldview, where currencies are disposable scaffolding for a bigger goal.
The grudge against Gavin and the Foundation
An "outsider" altcoiner spent years attacking Satoshi's chosen successor — with a possessiveness that reads oddly for someone with no stake in Bitcoin.
The intelligence-agency thread
From a 2013 "Gavin visits the CIA" theory to later talk of NDAs with the CIA, CFB keeps the agencies close — a recurring, unfalsifiable motif.
Tracking the Patoshi pattern
CFB followed the forensic hunt for Satoshi's own coins closely — citing the early-mining fingerprint himself.
The timezone fingerprint
Satoshi's posting hours were used to guess his location. You can compare CFB's posting rhythm against the real Satoshi account yourself.
The denials that aren't denials
CFB never gives a straight answer. He challenges people to disprove it, jokes that "Satoshi framed me," and lives in the ambiguity on purpose.
The inconvenient date
CFB says he bought his first bitcoins at $2 — putting his arrival in late 2011, after Satoshi had already vanished.
The 1CFB address — and the email that deflates it
A 1CFB address mined 50 BTC a day after Satoshi mentioned an "initials" address — a great story, until you read the email itself, where Satoshi names a different address.
If Satoshi made 1CFB for fun — how long would it take?
Satoshi floated the vanity-address idea at 8:41 AM; a deliberately hand-crafted, all-letters 1CFB address mined a block 7 h 39 m later. Could he have coded the generator and found it in that window?
Don't take our word for it.
Every post behind these threads is in the archive — 165,844 of them, from Come-from-Beyond and the accounts around him. Search it, read posts in their original thread, and compare accounts yourself.
Open the databaseHow to read this site
Primary sources first
Claims link to the original posts — on BitcoinTalk, Discord archives or Medium — and to searches in the database you can rerun.
Weighed both ways
Each thread carries a lean: toward, against, or mixed. A lean is a judgment about one piece of evidence, not a verdict on the whole question.
Check it yourself
The archive is public and exportable. If a thread overreaches, the posts to prove it are one search away.