Has Ted Nelson named the real Satoshi Nakamoto?
The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains a mystery, but Ted Nelson has thrown another hat into the ring. In a slightly weird twilight video, Nelson plays Sherlock Holmes to find his candidate. Nelson is not just another random YouTuber - his 1960 Xanadu project laid some of the foundations for hyperlinks. He suggests we look at the behaviour of Satoshi in avoiding traditional academic research or to engage once he released Bitcoin into the wild in 2009. We must then look for someone behaving in a similar way - and Nelson believes he has found the man - a Japanese mathematician Professor....
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Bitcoin was first introduced in a paper by "Satoshi Nakamoto" back in 2009. Since then the cryptocurrency rose to fame and inspired a lot of bitcoin-based startups to set up shop, potentially revolutionizing the financial industry. However, not much has been said about the real identity of who introduced this concept in the first place. Satoshi Nakamoto was known to communicate with other bitcoin enthusiasts only through email, never in person or by phone. By 2011, all communications from him ceased. Satoshi Nakamoto from Washington? There have been many speculations on who Satoshi....
The man Newsweek named as bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto has denied any involvement with cryptocurrency. Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese-American resident of Los Angeles, found himself thrust into the the limelight just a day ago when Newsweek reporter Leah McGrath Goodman claimed the anonymous, or pseudonymous, man who released bitcoin on the world had been found at last. Newsweek ran the story on the front cover of its newly-relaunched print edition, but after being pursued through the streets of LA by reporters for a day, Nakamoto said: "I got nothing to do with it". Yesterday,....
The existence of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous founding programmer behind the Bitcoin project, has long interested artists and writers of all genres. In the below short film produced by Mike Anzel, a real-life Satoshi Nakamoto is sought after in much the same way he is "hunted" in last year's comic, The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto. Except in the film, it's not a group of gangster's and cyberpunks hunting the creator, but a news crew. Also read: Bitcoin Film Review: The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin (2014). In order to avoid any spoilers on this very short story, we'll just let you enjoy the....
The Real Satoshi Nakamoto? Image courtesy of Newsweek (http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html). Newsweek claims to have found and interviewed the Real Satoshi Nakamoto: http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html. "Quiet, unassuming". Newsweek reporter Leah McGrath Goodman claims to have tracked down Satoshi Nakamoto, 64 and the face behind Bitcoin to his unassuming family home in Los Angeles's San Bernardino foothills. She writes: He is someone with a penchant for collecting model trains and a career shrouded in secrecy, having done....
Satoshi Nakamoto's broke a three year long silence, telling the world he is not Dorian Nakamoto (photo). Every post he made can be found in the database of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Satoshi Nakamoto remains an obscure figure to most people that are involved in cryptocurrencies. As the creator of Bitcoin, he is the reason we are all here. You would not be reading this article if it weren't for him. Heck, I would not have written this text, and we would probably think virtual currencies could only exist in a galaxy far, far away. Inventor of Bitcoin. However, Nakamoto is real. Whether....