Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Found, Newsweek Says

[onehandle]

Source: NBC News

The long-sought creator of the buzzy digital currency Bitcoin could be a reclusive man living a quiet life in California, claims a new report in Newsweek.

Newsweek's Leah McGrath Goodman spent two months trying to track down the founder of the buzzy "cryptocurrency" -- known by the assumed pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" -- and wrote that her investigation "led to a 64-year-old Japanese-American man whose name really is Satoshi Nakamoto."

The name Nakamoto appeared in the 2008 whitepaper introducing bitcoin, but the moniker was widely believed to be an alias for a person or group.

The Nakamoto with whom Newsweek spoke -- who now goes by the name "Dorian S. Nakamoto" -- did not say explicitly that he is indeed the elusive bitcoin creator.


Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-found-newsweek-says-n45871

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This is looking more and more like a cult all the time.
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The Guy Who Invented Bitcoin Is a Reclusive Oddball (Surprise!)

Bitcoin, like all great fantasies, has a compelling creation myth: one Satoshi Nakamoto existed on the internet just long enough to give birth to everyone's favorite cryptocurrency before disappearing for six years. Theories abounded as to the man's true identity. No one could track him down. That is, until Newsweek did just now.

It turns out, according to the Newsweek report, that Satoshi Nakamoto is not an alias for Sinichi Mochizuki, or Wei Dai, or a shadowy European computer collective. Satoshi Nakamoto is Satoshi Nakamoto, and he lives in California and likes to play with trains.

In fact, it turns out, there's not all that much to say about Nakamoto other than that he seems like a pretty unassuming guy who'd rather be left alone. If you want to read the story of how the Intrepid Reporter tracked him down, that's all here (spoiler: emails and phone calls!). But the basics are that Nakamoto is a 64-year old former defense contractor with six kids, a rumpled fellow who'd rather be left alone with his elaborate train models and (assumed) piles and piles of Bitcoin money. Honestly, wouldn't you?

http://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-invented-bitcoin-is-a-reclusive-weirdo-sur-1537680328

[MADem]

1. A cult where people kill themselves....?

http://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/CEO-of-bitcoin-exchange-found-dead-in-Singapore-5292511.php

SINGAPORE (AP) — The CEO of a virtual currency exchange was found dead near her home in Singapore.

A police spokesman said Thursday that initial investigations indicated there was no suspicion of "foul play" in the Feb. 26 death, meaning officers do not suspect murder.

The spokesman said police found 28-year-old Autumn Radtke, an American, lying motionless near the apartment tower where she lived.

Police have so far classified the death as "unnatural," which can mean an accident, misadventure, or suicide.

Radtke's company, First Meta, said it was "shocked and saddened by the tragic loss." ....

More at link.

[tofuandbeer]

9. "misadventure." I've never heard that term used before. I guess suggesting drugs?

[aquart]

10. Death by misadventure is a pretty standard designation.

I think it means disease didn't kill you and it wasn't murder. But that's probably a little vague.

[tofuandbeer]

11. Thx. Yeah, I figured as much: that it was common, that is. Don't know why I never heard it.

Guess I wasn't listening.

[aquart]

12. You don't watch enough mystery show reruns is all.

Probably you have a life.

[tofuandbeer]

16. :)

[Aerows]

22. All that tofu and beer

won't eat and drink itself!

j/k tofuandbeer.

[Blue_Tires]

2. I don't get it

I've read in multiple stories that "Satoshi Nakamoto" didn't even exist -- That he was some kind of fictional composite figurehead that the exchange CEOs created...There was even an ongoing inside joke about it at one of the bitcoin conferences...

And now he just pops up out of the blue?



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/03/bitcoin-just-turned-5-and-we-have-no-idea-who-started-it/


http://www.businessinsider.com/we-still-dont-know-who-created-bitcoin-2014-3

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto-the-creator-of-bitcoin

http://www.thewire.com/technology/2011/10/race-unmask-bitcoins-inventors/43535/

http://www.techspot.com/news/53925-weekend-tech-reading-the-man-behind-bitcoin.html

[Xithras]

3. A cult? Bitcoin is an offshoot of the open source world.

The entire idea of an open source project is that it isn't owned by its creator. You write the code, give it away, and then other people continue building it and expanding it. It's very common for people to start open source projects as hobbies and then walk away from them when they get move on to other things.

Nakamoto started Bitcoin Core many years ago. The Bitcoin Foundation later formed to continue its development and continued on after Nakamoto was finished with the project.

How do you get "cult" from that?

[X_Digger]

21. It's not Apple(TM), therefore it's a cult. (I know, that's the pot calling the kettle black.)

Google? Cult!
Android? Cult!
Linux? Cult!

(Search the poster + those terms, you get some *cough* interesting results.)

[mike_c]

4. WTF has happened to American journalism?

He's an "oddball?" Sheesh.

[ZombieHorde]

6. Well, he has a train set and doesn't jump at every chance to be famous.

[PeoViejo]

13. He just needed something to help pay for his Hobby

I would bet that a lot of folks here would love to enjoy the same lifestyle, and probably many do.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. Buzzy buzzy

This article was terrible.

[ZombieHorde]

5. Another bizarre character attack on those who use the currency.

Is it just me or do some people seem really desperate to put down bitcoin?

[bitchkitty]

14. Not just you.

Untraceable currency. I imagine that some people are freaking out, to put it mildly.

[ZombieHorde]

17. Cash can be difficult to trace.

A lot of DUers have purchased illegal drugs with cash before.

[bitchkitty]

18. A lot of cash can be hard to hide...

I remember purchasing with cash!

[randome]

19. Those who use words like 'hate' and 'desperate' must be feeling insecure.

No one 'hates' you. No one is 'desperate' to destroy Bitcoin. It's a shame you can't see how much of a Ponzi scheme it truly is. But you must suspect it by now.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[ZombieHorde]

20. I have never claimed any of that.

You have completely misread my post.

[Democat]

8. Is it possible Bitcoin was created by the CIA or another secretive US government organization?

The article says this guy was working on classified projects for the US government.

[jsr]

15. "My brother is an asshole. His life was a complete blank."

Fascinating, indeed.