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Nakamoto recap: 48 hours in the bizarro saga of the Bitcoin creator's (possible) outing |
March 09, 2014
It’s something straight out of a tech blogger’s fever dream: A print magazine comes back from the dead to announce it’s found the creator of Bitcoin. Journalists respond with their best reenactment of the OJ Simpson chase. The alleged Bitcoin creator denies any involvement with the crypto-currency. The “real” creator of Bitcoin reemerges to state as much.
Oy. Pass the Advil. Join us as we relive the confusing, twisting tale of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto.
Thursday morning: As part of its grand return to print, Newsweek publishes a massive, 4600-word piece in which it claims to expose the person who first created Bitcoin. Bitcoin watchers always presumed that “Satoshi Nakamoto” was only a pseudonym that the Bitcoin creator—or creators—used, but Newsweek tracked it back to Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, a 64-year-old man living in Southern California. Newsweek even received what seemed to be a tacit admission from Dorian. Case closed... or so it seemed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2105770/nakamoto-recap-48-hours-in-the-bizarro-saga-of-the-bitcoin-creators-possible-outing.html#tk.rss_all
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