The Face Behind Bitcoin: Satoshi Nakamoto is... Satoshi Nakamoto

Nakamoto's family describe him as extremely intelligent, moody and obsessively private, a man of few words who screens his phone calls, anonymizes his emails and, for most of his life, has been preoccupied with the two things for which Bitcoin has now become known: money and secrecy.



"Oh oh I know what to do! I'll put a picture of him and his home along with his estimated net worth on the internet."

Philligan, are you part of NSA?

History likes to look at individuals who have influenced the progression of our world. Even if they want to remain unknown, it is unrealistic. It was inevitable. He created a system that netted him half a billion dollars. There is always a cost to this type of success, mainly change. His life will now change drastically if this is true

for bitcoin tards

fckin newsweek for destroying an old sick man's privacy

Yes people have been looking for him since 2009

jpmorgan are the creators of bitcointalk.org

and the inventors of Satoshi Nakamoto

every single Banking and corporation CEO in the world is

an actor and really has no idea what happens inside the

company,

From late 2012:

Newsweek magazine ended almost 80 years in print with its issue dated Dec. 31 as it transitions to an online-only format, a move that makes it the most widely-read magazine yet to give up on the print media.

The magazine had said in October that it would go all digital, and is now part of the news and commentary site The Daily Beast. Tina Brown, who was editor of the magazine, is also the editor of the Daily Beast, which is controlled by IAC/Interactive Corp.

[link to online.wsj.com]

From December 2013:

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Newsweek’s return to print is a positive sign for a magazine that struggled mightily in the digital age. At its height in 1991, the magazine had 3.3 million readers. In 2010, Newsweek’s owner, The Washington Post, sold it to the billionaire investor Sidney Harman, who also assumed $40 million in liabilities, and then merged it with The Daily Beast, the website owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp.

Newsweek expects to begin a 64-page weekly edition in January or February (2014), said Jim Impoco, Newsweek’s editor in chief. Mr. Impoco said in an interview that Newsweek would depend more heavily on subscribers than advertisers to pay its bills — and that readers would pay more than in the past.

Newsweek is now owned by IBT media.

[link to corp.ibt.com]
[link to corp.ibt.com]

Few sites are noting that IBT has significant ties to David Jang, the Korean pastor hailed by some of his followers as a messianic figure, a "Second Coming Christ."

[link to www.christianitytoday.com]

Christianity Today published two major articles on Jang last year, quoting multiple sources who described an international network with Jang as its spiritual—and sometimes even operational—leader.

In a September 21, 2010, email obtained by CT, Johnathan Davis declines an invitation to become vice president of a new organization called Christians in Media. The organization was created by several members of other Jang-affiliated media organizations, including The Christian Post, Christian Today (a UK website), Gospel Herald, IBTimes-affiliated Medical Daily News, and Jang's Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches. And an email earlier in the thread indicated that Jang was consulted in the decisions of this new organization as well.

"My commission is inherently covert so I'll have to respectfully decline," Davis wrote.

[link to www.theverge.com]

In addition to interviews with family and friends, reporter Leah McGrath Goodman cites a single face-to-face interaction with Nakamoto, in which he "tacitly acknowledged" his role in the program. "I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he said. "It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection."

The case isn't airtight. Goodman appears to have spoken to Nakamoto only briefly, though she cites longer interviews with his siblings and children. Much of the report hinges on matching the timelines between Nakamoto the Bitcoin creator and Nakamoto the engineer, including the years it might have taken him to write the code and a period of ill health that could explain his absence from the Bitcoin project over the past few years. It also relies on parallels between Nakamoto's libertarian political beliefs and the principles of Bitcoin, designed to be anonymous and to operate independently of government regulation.

THEY "FOUND" SOME GUY WITH THE LAST NAME NAKAMOTO, LEAKED TODAY JUST IN TIME FOR YOU TO SUBSCRIBE TO THEIR NEW PRINT MAGAZINE OR GO BUY IT FROM NEWSSTANDS TOMORROW!!

Give me a break!

Thanks, a great article!

What do you think about the quote by the Nakamoto's daughter?

"He is very wary of government interference in general," she says. "When I was little, there was a game we used to play. He would say, 'Pretend the government [agents] are coming after you.' And I would hide in the closet."


That, combined with the fact that he supposedly worked on classified stuff for years, gives me the creeps....


(As a side note, I am a heavy bitcoin supporter, and I am redirecting around $100-200 a month into bitcoin.. And this STILL creeps me out...)

Looks like this is legit they're reporting on cnbc now

This creeps you out? How so?

Not trying to pick on you but this is a teachable moment in cognitive dissonance.

So let's assume for a moment this is legit. Works for the government on classfied stuff, is a super libertarian that used to play "pretend government agents are coming after you" with his daughter, a real paranoid guy. Basically he has seen some shit.

So then this brilliant coder, presumably having it well within his capabilities to hide his digital footprint, releases Bitcoin anonymously to topple the USA government and federal reserve system....USING HIS REAL NAME!!!!!

I mean come on guys and gals let's use some common sense here.

Bitcoin is a government operation, a giant scam just like this article from Newsweek.

Because the classified work means he's seen the inside of the meat factory... And training his daughter to hide shows that he knows what the government is capable of. Like he knows that raids are possible because of what he's doing maybe?

Odds that that the LEFTY LOON Newsweek article is actually factual?

Very low.

If this is true, then the current core dev team would have to be in on it as well... Just a thought...

This IS true.
Its all over the real world news.
Every news show.
She found him.

This is now drudge top headline !

He ran in a car chase

This should have been pinned this morning but oh well. Glp needs to stay ahead of the news not behind it

5* pr

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