On Nov. 5, 2026, an X user writing as yellow proposed that Elon Musk could be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, citing a comparison of their writing using Grok and stylometry. The author said the similarities were unexpected but did not identify Musk as Nakamoto. Differences between social-media posts, emails and forum messages made the texts hard to compare, and no candidate matched Nakamoto closely enough to confirm authorship.
The author also cited Musk’s technical background and possible links to Bitcoin’s origins, while acknowledging that some clues could be coincidences or jokes. Musk denied in 2017 that he was Nakamoto.
