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He invented the proof-of-work stamp in 1997. He's reference [6] in the whitepaper.
Satoshi emailed him first, in August 2008. Then his own company built the
contracts that let Bitcoin settle a bet with nobody standing in the middle.
He gave us the money, then he gave us the casino.
$BACK is the chip.
Not official, not endorsed, and not on Solana either.
This is the one that settles on Bitcoin.
The mint is open. The tables open after.
The chip comes first, the casino comes after. Real Bitcoin L1, real PSBTs, and your keys never leave your wallet. The mint is open, the tables are not.
1,997,000,000 max supply · 199,700 per mint
10,000 mints total · 0 for the team
1 to 25 mints per session, chained together. The house fee is charged per mint.
There's a theory and it will not die. The man who invented the proof-of-work stamp in 1997, who is reference [6] in the whitepaper, who is the first person Satoshi is known to have contacted about Bitcoin, is Satoshi.
In April 2026 the New York Times spent 18 months and 134,308 mailing-list posts building that case and printed it. He denied it the same week, in four words: “i'm not satoshi”, while conceding, with real sportsmanship, that he's “a reasonable suspect” and that “it's surprisingly hard to prove a negative.” Bitcoin's price moved less than 1%. The market had heard it before.
So, clearly: we are not saying he is Satoshi. He says he isn't, he's said it for six years, and he's the one who'd know. Backamoto is our name, not his, a joke we're making, about an accusation he keeps politely declining.
No table is open yet, the carpet is still being glued down. Every table settles on Bitcoin L1, and the randomness comes out of the block instead of out of us.
There is no bank. Not a small one, not a well capitalised one, none at all. Every table here is player against player: your winnings are somebody else's stake, never a payout from a treasury that could run dry or decide it would rather not. The house never takes a side. It sweeps a small rake off the pot and goes back to wiping the bar.
Two players, one shoe, both drawing from the same deck the block shuffled. Closest to twenty one without busting takes the pot. There is no dealer, because there is nobody here to be one.
Everyone throws $BACK in the same pot. Every Bitcoin block, one wallet takes the whole thing. Your odds are simply your share of the pot, so the money you win is the money the room put in.
Two players, two rolls, one block. High roll takes the pot. The oldest game in the world, and the only one whose rulebook still fits on a beer mat.
One pot, fed by every spin anyone has ever paid for. Three jesters and you walk out with all of it. No bank stands behind this machine either: the prizes are simply the coins the previous players fed it. Nothing is at stake in this demo, the chips are imaginary and so are the winnings.
Play money. No wallet, no wager, no payout. When the real machine opens, the reels will be seeded by a Bitcoin block hash committed before you spin, every spin will pay into one visible on-chain pot, and taking that pot will be a covenant condition rather than a promise from us. There is no bankroll to run dry, because there is no bankroll.
Everything on this wall actually happened, sources included, because a joke lands harder when it's true. Read it in order and it stops being a gag about a man who won't admit he's Satoshi, and turns into the reason a casino can exist on Bitcoin at all. Exhibits 14 and 15 are the punchline.
Questions you were going to ask in the Telegram anyway.
Yes, and that is the entire reason this site exists. Bitcoin scripts can carry covenants: rules that constrain where the coins are allowed to move next. Put the state in an OP_RETURN, put the rules in the script, and you can express things people spent a decade insisting Bitcoin could not do. Universal already settles real AMM swaps this way, with a constant product pool and a protocol fee, on L1, today. No bridge, no sidechain, no committee.
Because a casino is the least forgiving thing you can build. It has to take custody of nothing, prove its own fairness, and pay out without anyone's permission. If that works on L1, the boring stuff works too. Also because it is funny, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Everywhere else it has already been done a thousand times and it means nothing. The only interesting words in this whole project are "on Bitcoin L1". Take those away and you have a slot machine with a jester on it.
He says no. The New York Times said yes in April 2026 after running his old mailing-list posts through a stylometric analysis, and he denied it that same week: "i'm not satoshi", while admitting he's "a reasonable suspect" and that "it's surprisingly hard to prove a negative". We take him at his word. We also named a casino BACKAMOTO. Both things can be true.
No, and you should be suspicious of anything that claims otherwise. Not affiliated, not endorsed, not sponsored, not connected, not aware. There is no official Adam Back coin, and given he is on record calling memecoins worthless, there is unlikely ever to be one. This is a parody casino made by people who like proof-of-work. If he ever asks us to stop, we stop that same day.
What we will claim, because it is checkable: several Adam Back tokens already exist on Solana, all of them dust, at least one with its liquidity pulled. This is the only one that settles on Bitcoin L1, which is the entire point of building it.
The mint is open now. The tables are not: the pool gets seeded first, then they open one at a time. So the only thing that costs you anything today is a mint you sign yourself, and it costs 4,777 sats per mint on top of the Bitcoin network fee. We'd rather say that loudly than quietly.
Because we commit to the outcome before you bet, the randomness comes out of the Bitcoin block, which we very much do not control, and the payout is written into the spending conditions rather than into our terms of service. Every round can be replayed from public data. If our published result doesn't match what you compute, we're caught instantly and publicly. The goal is a house that cannot cheat, not a house that promises it won't.
Other people, always. Every table on this floor is player against player, because there is no bank and we are not building one. A house bankroll is a pot of money someone has to hold, top up, and be trusted not to disappear with, and all three of those are exactly what Bitcoin was built to avoid. So your winnings are somebody else's stake. That means an empty table pays nothing, which is the honest tradeoff: we would rather you wait for an opponent than trust us for a payout.
Two ways, both disclosed up front: a flat fee on every mint, and a small rake off each pot at the tables. Note what is missing from that list: a house edge. We never take the other side of your bet, so we do not profit when you lose. We profit when people play, which is a different incentive and a much healthier one. Zero tokens to the team, no hidden wallet, no unlock schedule.
There's nothing to rug. We hold no tokens, there is no liquidity we control and can pull, no mint function we can call twice, no owner key. Supply is fixed at deploy and the mint is first-come. There is also no bankroll, which cuts both ways honestly: we cannot run off with a treasury, and we cannot fail to pay you out of one either, because your winnings were never ours to hold.
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