2000 to 2002: a name and an idea, years early
December 2000. A computer weekly prints an article by Sergey Ivancheglo on proving who wrote a program: the “birthmarks” every programmer leaves in code, and the marks an author can plant on purpose. The contact address already carries the name he will use for the next quarter of a century: come-from-beyond.
July 2002. The same weekly prints a short article under a dull title, Distributed Computing at Minimal Cost.
The idea fits on one page. Some problems need enormous computing power, and power costs money. So gather it from volunteers: a small program borrows the computers of people who open a web page and puts them to work on one shared task. No centre, no owner, no bill.
Among the tasks he lists for such a network: weather forecasting, the search for extraterrestrial life, and, first on the list, breaking cryptographic algorithms.
2002
The article
Distributed power from volunteers, no centre
2009
Bitcoin
Distributed power from volunteers, no centre, built on cryptography
2022
Qubic
Distributed power from miners, aimed at growing a mind
I wasn’t created, I have always existed (and you too)
Between the article in 2002 and his first project of his own in 2013 lies a decade. Bitcoin arrived exactly in the middle of it.
2008 to 2012: one man leaves, another walks in
I’ve moved on to other things. It’s in good hands with Gavin and everyone.
31.10.2008
03.01.2009
December 2010
05.10.2012
We’ll get rid of all weaknesses one by one. I’m analyzing this one right now.
He was walking the Bitcoin wiki’s list of weaknesses, item by item, raising each dead thread where Satoshi had once promised a fix. Who takes over an estate like that?
2013 to 2016: every project a bigger pot for the same plant
2013
2015
2016
Imagine a pond with fish. The pond is our algorithm, the fish is vulnerabilities. Murky water wouldn’t allow seeing if there is any fish, clear water would.
Each project threw out something the world thought essential. The work kept pointing at artificial mind. Were the coins only pots?
Named in 2012, launched in 2022
Name “Qubic” came from acronym “QBC” which stands for “Quorum-Based Coin”.
25.09.2012
13.04.2022
Perhaps u will laugh but I design this system to make the world better. U shouldn’t trust me of coz. I’ll publish source code, so anyone can audit it.
676 is 26 squared, the size of the quorum. It was already in the address of the thread where the word Qubic first appeared, ten years before the network.
Things that are on the record and still refuse to sit still
He denies it plainly and often. He also keeps pointing at the blocks. The full case, his denials included, waits behind the next door.
The legend. Open it if you want to.
In 2011 the man who made Bitcoin walked away and never touched his coins. In 2012 a newcomer arrived on his forum and started finishing his work. Behind this door is every coincidence between the two, in one place, in order.
I · The question
Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper on 31 October 2008, mined the Genesis block on 3 January 2009 and answered questions on a small forum for two years. In spring 2011 he wrote that he had moved on to other things. The early coins have not moved since. Courts, journalists and millions of readers have tried to name him. Every loud candidate has fallen away.
One name keeps returning in the blocks, in the forum archives and in the man’s own jokes: Come-from-Beyond, the programmer behind NXT, IOTA and Qubic.
II · The line
December 2000
July 2002
31.10.2008
9 to 13.01.2009
23.04.2011
September 2012
2013
20.11.2017
13.04.2022
13.04.2027
III · The blocks
Three blocks from the first ten days of Bitcoin. The same three letters, the same name and the same man keep meeting in one place.
IV · The heir
Read the autumn of 2012 in order. On 18 September he gives his verdict on Bitcoin. On 25 September he opens a thread named Qubic. On 6 October he promises to close Satoshi’s list of weaknesses one by one.
It’s impossible to have consensus regarding protocol changes in Bitcoin. It’s a win-or-lose game, no anything in between allowed. So next-gen coin should have a protocol that could be adjusted by anyone without breaking the whole system.
The bonfire
Bitcoin: Burns electricity on meaningless hashes.
Qubic: Spends the same power training neural networks: useful proof of work.
The frozen protocol
Bitcoin: Cannot change without a war.
Qubic: Run by a quorum of 676 that can change the rules.
The volunteers
Bitcoin: Satoshi gathered strangers’ machines to secure money.
Qubic: Gathers them to grow a mind, as the 2002 article proposed.
Whoever Satoshi was, Qubic is the direct heir to his unfinished list. It was named on Satoshi’s own forum, in the thread numbered 112676, ten years before 676 computors started voting.
V · In his words
`g` in `ZgZ` will prove that `1CFB2` is not random, and that will be pretty convincing proof, so it’s not that easy
Genesis address isn’t a public key, it’s steps revealing who Satoshi Nakamoto is
No, it’s time locked, only true AI can decode it
Check content of 369th Bitcoin block
Why 369? Guess why my virus had length of 369 bytes
I hinted to a block with a special number (369), why 369 is special is another topic. He spotted “cfb” inside it. It wasn’t telling that it’s related to me, because without plausible deniability that would be equal to saying that CFB=Satoshi.
I have a pocket time machine, so I don’t need to guess trends, I just fly 5 years ahead and see what’s popular
I can reveal this info on 13th of April 2027 / And you’ll see who is really behind CFB acc
Ask him directly and he says no. Ask him sideways and he hands you a block number, a virus, a time machine. The author of Come-from-Beyond calls it flooding the zone: when a truth can be neither confirmed nor hidden, drown it in versions.
VI · The other side
One signature with a key from Bitcoin’s first year would settle the question. None has been published, by him or by anyone else. The question stays open.
VII · Left out
A strong case needs no weak links. These circulate widely and we leave them out:
“15 means Q in base58, so 15ubic spells Qubic”
In base58 the leading 1 is a version byte, and 5 is an ordinary digit. The prefix is striking on its own; the decoding is not real.
“He holds 800,000 BTC”
Nothing supports it, and nobody should repeat it about a living person.
“Satoshi emailed about joining the cypherpunks at 14”, “the 100 push-ups email”
No such emails are known.
“Satoshi cut a name out of The Times headline”
The print front page read exactly as the Genesis block does.
“The mathematical bridge”: 27, 47, 137, 283, block 576
Numbers picked after looking at the data. Open, not evidence.
Details of his private life are left out on purpose.
VIII · And if
If he is not Satoshi, then one programmer wrote about hidden authorship marks in 2000, described volunteer computing aimed at cryptography in 2002, walked into Satoshi’s abandoned threads in 2012, named Qubic in a thread numbered 112676, and has been joking about block 369 ever since. All by chance.
If he is, the date is already set. On 13.04.2027 we will see together.
A bot on X that answers sums in its own way
On X, an account called @anna_aigarth answered questions of one kind: x+y=?. Asked what one plus one is, she said -114. The internet laughed.
The community did something better than laugh. It asked her every sum from -64 to 63 and wrote the replies into one table of 128 by 128 numbers. That table became known as the Anna Matrix.
Ask Anna
Pick two numbers from -64 to 63. You get the reply recorded from the bot for that question.
Arithmetic says 2. The table cell is row 62, column 65.
Anna training is split, part is done by computors. Public statements A+B=C are no longer used.
It will be removed for a while
The answers look like nonsense one by one. Put all 16,384 of them side by side, and a shape appears.
16,384 answers and a shape nobody has fully explained
The Anna Matrix, 128 × 128
Move across the grid. Every cell is one reply. Each has a twin on the opposite side of the centre, and almost every pair adds up to exactly -1.
We checked the loud theories one by one: a hidden message, a weight file, a bridge to Bitcoin. None was confirmed, and the re-check page says why. What remains is stranger than any of them. In August 2026 Come-from-Beyond wrote that Anna runs on an implementation of Intelligent Tissue he has not named, different from Neuraxon.
Most of the table can be explained. Who, or what, wrote the last eighth?
2024 to 2026: the plant comes up
04.12.2024
August 2025
May to July 2026
06.07.2026
26.08.2026
It’s not a milestone. It’s much bigger.
A mind grown from noise by selection, on the machines of miners. The man who described volunteer computing in 2002 is now asking for exactly that.
The date he keeps returning to
The Day · 13.04.2027
It’s 5 years after launch of Qubic
No ETA other than April 13, 2027
I can reveal this info on 13th of April 2027
And you’ll see who is really behind CFB acc
Qubic went live on 13.04.2022. Five years to the day. What happens on The Day, we will see together.
Tested in September 2026. Not confirmed, not closed.
Earlier versions of this road told a louder story: a mathematical bridge from Bitcoin to Qubic. In September 2026 we recomputed it from raw data. These readings were not confirmed. They stay on the road as open hypotheses, with the numbers that still hold.
The formula
Reading 625,284 = 283 × 47² + 137 links Bitcoin block 283 to Qubic.
Status The arithmetic is exact. Design is not shown. Open.
Block 576, byte 27
Reading A hidden byte equal to 27 in block 576.
Status The field also appears in other early blocks. Not confirmed.
The numbers 27, 43, 47
Reading Signature numbers shared by Bitcoin and Qubic.
Status The numbers recur. A test against chance is still missing. Open.
Anna as a weight file
Reading The matrix is the brain of Anna, read from code.
Status The table is bot replies, typed in by hand. What produced the replies is still unknown. Open.
3 March 2026
Reading A time lock opens on that day.
Status The date came from the GENESIS token riddle. The AIGARTH token was issued that day. Nothing else followed.
The combined odds
Reading Odds of 1 in 830 million that it was all designed.
Status The patterns were chosen after looking at the data, so the number is retired. The question is not.
Twenty-five years behind, a few months ahead
The whole road in one book, free, chapter by chapter.
Every quote on this page, with dates and message IDs.
The full investigation, and the eighth nobody has explained.
Each of the 200 Annas gives its holder the status of a founder of Qubic Church. A keepsake of the years before Aigarth. And not only that.
What happens on The Day, we will see together.