Bitcoin Not-Founder Dorian Nakamoto to File Lawsuit against Newsweek
Dorian Nakamoto has taken steps towards suing Newsweek for their false report about him earlier this year. For those unfamiliar with one of the largest media gaffs of 2014, Newsweek author Leah McGrath Goodman wrote an article allegedly unmasking Dorian Nakamoto as Satoshi Nakamoto (the pseudonym of Bitcoin's creator(s)). Newsweek stood by their "forensic reporting," which they admitted consisted of identifying the several dozen some-odd Japanese people with both the names 'Satoshi' and 'Nakamoto' and searching for computer/engineering skills. It is exactly as ridiculous as it sounds. The....
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A campaign has been launched to fund legal action against Newsweek on behalf of Dorian Nakamoto, the California man the magazine claimed was the inventor of bitcoin back in March. The campaign has set up a website called newsweeklied.com, a twitter account and a bitcoin address for donations to the 'Dorian Nakamoto Legal Defense Fund', which can also be donated to with credit or debit cards. The case is being handled by Los Angeles arts and entertainment and industry lawyer Ethan Kirschner of Kirschner Law. Nakamoto first hired Kirschner as his lawyer in March, saying, "I unconditionally....
"You've got the wrong man". Dorian Nakamoto, also known as Satoshi Nakamoto, says Newsweek misrepresented him as the creator of Bitcoin. He denied having any involvement with Bitcoin, which he repeatedly referred to as "Bitcom" during an AP interview yesterday, reports Reuters. Free Lunch. According to the LA Times, Mr. Dorian Nakamoto was roped in by Newsweek: "I never was involved," he said to a Times reporter, saying there was only one reason he had agreed to even talk to a reporter. "It was all for a free lunch." The media circus arrived at Dorian Nakamoto's home after Newsweek....
Dorian Nakamoto, the Los Angeles-area man Newsweek claimed, was the creator of Bitcoin, recently held an AMA on Reddit. The creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, disappeared after his invention began gaining mainstream attention. In early 2014, Leah Goodman published a story for Newsweek claiming Dorian was Satoshi. Dorian denied this accusation. During the AMA, Dorian unveiled that, in her pursuit of a story, Goodman broke the law. The Newsweek article opens with an account involving two police officers. ... Now face to face, with two police officers as witnesses, Nakamoto's responses to....
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',....
Dorian Nakamoto outside of his residence. (NYT) Dorian S. Nakamoto, the man Newsweek alleged to have created the Bitcoin protocol, has hired a lawyer and issued a statement regarding his involvement with Bitcoin. First reported by Reuters' Felix Salmon via twitter, Nakamoto's statement released through his lawyer states plainly, I did not create, invent or otherwise work on Bitcoin. I unconditionally deny the Newsweek report. The statement goes on to reiterate that the first time Nakamoto ever heard the term "Bitcoin" was when the Newsweek reporter, Leah Goodman, contacted his son on the....