Watch Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto Deny Newsweek's Claims
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',....
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