Newsweek Meets Satoshi Nakamoto - Community Reacts

Newsweek Meets Satoshi Nakamoto - Community Reacts

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....


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