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 |  Subject: Bitcoin 'father' denies any ties  Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:22 pm | |
| A reclusive Japanese American man thought to be the father of Bitcoin has emerged from his Southern California home and denied any involvement with the digital currency, before leading reporters on a car chase leading to the headquarters of the Associated Press.
Satoshi Nakamoto, a name known to legions of bitcoin traders, practitioners and boosters around the world, appeared to lose his anonymity on Thursday after Newsweek published a story that said Nakamoto lived in Temple City, California, just east of Los Angeles, and included a photograph.
Dozens of reporters encircled a modest two-story house thought to be the 64-year-old's residence on Thursday morning. No one answered the doorbell, though several times, someone pulled back the drapes on an upstairs window, suggesting the person was keeping an eye on the street.
In the afternoon, Nakamoto stepped outside and told reporters he had nothing to do with bitcoin but was looking for someone who understood Japanese, to buy him a free lunch.
An AP reporter said yes, and the two made their way to a nearby sushi restaurant with media in tow, before leaving and heading downtown.
According to a Los Angeles Times reporter, who followed his car, Nakamoto was driven to the Associated Press offices in downtown Los Angeles, where he again denied any involvement with bitcoin.
Bitcoin enthusiasts have come under fire in recent weeks, following the sensational collapse of Mt Gox, once among the largest of the bitcoin exchanges, and the closure of Canadian bitcoin lender Flexcoin.
The collapse of Mt Gox has shaken confidence in the digital currency, which advocates believe will smooth financial transactions across the world. Opponents criticise it as a risky, unregulated investment.
Bitcoin is a digital currency that, unlike conventional money, is bought and sold on a peer-to-peer network independent of central control. Its value soared last year, and the total worth of bitcoins minted is now about US$7 billion.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/30021296/bitcoin-father-denies-any-ties |
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| | Subject: Re: Bitcoin 'father' denies any ties Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:38 pm | |
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- Nakamoto, 64, told the AP in a two-hour interview Thursday that he had never heard of Bitcoin until his son told him he had been contacted by a reporter three weeks ago.
Still, the episode was a grand public relations coup for its new owner, IBT Media, a little known media company founded in 2006 by a 30-year old French entrepreneur.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/03/06/newsweek-relaunches/6141761/
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| | Subject: Re: Bitcoin 'father' denies any ties Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:46 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: Bitcoin 'father' denies any ties Fri Mar 07, 2014 5:54 am | |
| LOL: 'Real' bitcoin creator: 'I am not Dorian Nakamoto'
An online social account for the creator of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, sprung back into life Friday morning after a five-year hibernation amid growing speculation about his identity.
The username Satoshi Nakamoto used an online forum for the P2P Foundation - an organization that studies peer to peer technology - to introduce the virtual currency with a single post back in 2009. The same user returned on Friday morning in an attempt to deny a 4,500-word cover story in this week's Newsweek magazine.
Newsweek claimed that the creator of bitcoin was a 64-year old Japanese-American living in California called Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto. But Friday's comment on the P2P Foundation website - using the Satoshi Nakamoto username - simply stated: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."
More: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101474673 |
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| | Subject: Re: Bitcoin 'father' denies any ties Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:08 pm | |
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- "A day after the news broke that Satoshi Nakamoto was a 64-year-old Japanese man living in California, Nakamoto has denied being the creator of Bitcoin in an exclusive two-hour interview with The Associated Press. Nakamoto said he had never heard of bitcoin until his son told him he had been contacted by a Newsweek reporter three weeks ago. He acknowledged that many of the details in Newsweek’s report are correct, including that he once worked for a defense contractor, and that his given name at birth was Satoshi. But he strongly disputed the magazine’s assertion that he is “the face behind bitcoin.” “I got nothing to do with it,” he said, repeatedly."
http://goo.gl/L1taSE
If true, this could get ugly for Newsweek.
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| | Subject: Re: Bitcoin 'father' denies any ties Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:46 pm | |
| They might have to buy him another free lunch.
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