Man Pegged By Newsweek As Bitcoin Creator Denies Involvement
A brief primer if you're not already up to date on things: This morning, Newsweek published a report claiming they found the Satoshi Nakamoto - the mysterious figure who created the bitcoin digital currency - in Temple City, California. In that piece, he was quoted as saying: "I am no longer involved in [bitcoin] and I cannot discuss it." "It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection." Hours later, we began hearing first reports of denial. As it were, the man's name is Satoshi Nakamoto (Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, in fact), but....
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The man who has been pegged by Newsweek at the real Satoshi Nakamoto is presently being hounded by journalists in Southern California, and he's denying any involvement. The man was seen leaving his home this afternoon in an Instagram video posted by Hunter Schwarz of Buzzfeed. No questions right now, he demanded. I want my free lunch. The 65-year-old left with an Associated Press journalist for lunch, presumably to speak about the Newsweek exposé that went live on the web Thursday morning. He denied allegations that he was the creator of bitcoin made by the paper's Leah McGrath Goodman:....
While we don't want to hop aboard the beat the dead horse train, we think this video is an important development in the Newsweek piece that made it's debut Thursday morning. It's a follow-up to a post published on newsBTC (and tons of other sites) last night and this morning, where Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto (the man pegged by Newsweek's Leah McGrath Goodman as the creator of bitcoin) denied claims he's ever been involved with the digital currency. What you're about to watch in the video above is Dorian at the Associated Press bureau in downtown Los Angeles discussing the 'exposé',....
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 man pegged by Newsweek as bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is poised to take legal action for what he claims to have been a false story that took the cryptocurrency community by storm back in March. Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto's name became public - very public - in a highly sensationalized exposé entitled The Face Behind Bitcoin written by journalist Leah McGrath Goodman, employed by Newsweek. Goodman's story painted a very interesting picture of this reserved retired gentleman living in Los Angeles county, except for the fact that Mr. Nakamoto denied the story outright almost....
The man pegged by Newsweek as the creator of bitcoin, Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, has reportedly hired a lawyer and released an official statement. "I am the subject of the Newsweek story on Bitcoin. I am writing this statement to clear my name," it read, as released by Felix Salmon of Reuters. Nakamoto says the first time he's heard of bitcoin was in the middle of February, when his son was contacted by a reporter (presumably Leah McGrath Goodman, who wrote the Newsweek story). "Shortly thereafter, the reporter confronted me at my home. I called the police. I never consented to....