Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto found? Chaos ensues!

[KevinNYC]

Or just a press frenzy.

http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/b...-nakamoto.html

the trail followed by Newsweek led to a 64-year-old Japanese-American man whose name really is Satoshi Nakamoto. He is someone with a penchant for collecting model trains and a career shrouded in secrecy, having done classified work for major corporations and the U.S. military.

Standing before me, eyes downcast, appeared to be the father of Bitcoin.

Not even his family knew.

Now this is happening.

Authorities in Temple City are trying to keep the peace Thursday amid the media frenzy over the purported creator of Bitcoin.
Reporters have swarmed the Temple City home of Satoshi Nakamoto after a Newsweek story claimed he was the creator of the controversial currency.
Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said they have been sending a car to his home every few hours to make sure there are no problems.
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No incidents have been reported to authorities.
The Times' Joe Bel Bruno and Andrea Chang reported that a group of reporters pursued Nakamoto as he and an Associated Press reporter drove to the news service's offices in downtown Los Angeles. In a brief exchange with Chang, Nakamoto denied being the creator of Bitcoin.

The LA Times has a live blog of the 20 or so reporters who followed Nakamoto to Associated Press headquarters and are waiting for him to emerge.

[KevinNYC]

Dude is very, very rich if it is him. He doesn't appear to have cashed any of the original bitcoins he mined himself. People have theorized that he didn't cash out because that would reveal his identity.

Wonder if he will now

[ZenMaster]

What's the consequences of finding him?

[OhNoTimNoSho]

What's the consequences of finding him?

Someone is going to try and steal his bitcoin wallet because he has like billions of dollars worth

[KevinNYC]

Someone is going to try and steal his bitcoin wallet because he has like billions of dollars worth

Newsweek says $400 million. However if he tries to sell it all, the price would dip a bit.

Supposedly, he has denied to his own family that he created Bitcoin.

[CelticBaller]

so that was his name?

[KevinNYC]

so that was his name?

His given name is Satoshi Nakamoto, which is so weird that it took a long time to find him. However, he did change his first name.

For the past 40 years, Satoshi Nakamoto has not used his birth name in his daily life. At the age of 23, after graduating from California State Polytechnic University, he changed his name to "Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto," according to records filed with the U.S. District Court of Los Angeles in 1973. Since then, he has not used the name Satoshi but instead signs his name "Dorian S. Nakamoto."

[KevinNYC]

The LA Times has a live blog of the 20 or so reporters who followed Nakamoto to Associated Press headquarters and are waiting for him to emerge.

So the AP interview with him is up now. He denies he knows anythng about bitcoin.

The man Newsweek claims is the founder of Bitcoin denies he had anything to do with the digital currency.

In an exclusive two-hour interview with The Associated Press Dorian S. Nakamoto, 64, said he had never heard of Bitcoin until his son told him he had been contacted by a reporter three weeks ago.

Wonder how long that story will last.

[CelticBaller]

His given name is Satoshi Nakamoto, which is so weird that it took a long time to find him. However, he did change his first name.

I thought it was a rumor

[KevinNYC]

I thought it was a rumor

That's why I don't buy his denial. They go looking for the guy and the guy they find is

A. A brilliant mathematician
B. Obsessed with privacy
C. Named Satoshi Nakamoto?

and it's not the guy?

perhaps there's some other brilliant mathematician who is obsessed with privacy and decided to troll him. Revenge from some fight back in college.

[Crystallas]

Every few months, someone thinks they found Satoshi, and every time, insiders who know who Satoshi is, has confirmed that it is not Satoshi. The only thing we know(which should be comon sense) is that a guy who is keen on privacy did not use his real name.

Keep looking. Or... be suckered into going to Newsweek's site, as part of their stunt to sell magazines and subscriptions. Your choice.

[KevinNYC]

The plot thickens

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