Satoshi Nakamoto, the programmer who created the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, may or may not have been outed earlier this year in a by-now famous Newsweek exposé. However, whatever their provenance, it was real email exchanges, forum posts, and code written between 2008 and 2012 that served as the foundation for what would become one of the most […]
The perfect storm hit Bitcoin 1 to 2 months ago: Media overexposure, weird drama about Satoshi Nakamoto, the collapse of a large Bitcoin exchange called Mt. Gox, crushingly negative coverage in financial press, etc. As the negative news piled up, regular people with only marginal interest in virtual currencies tuned out. Bitcoin’s Google search volume collapsed […]
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, the man Newsweek pinned as the creator of Bitcoin, has retained legal counsel in an attempt to clear his name. In a pointed statement issued early Monday, Nakamoto again emphatically denied any connection to the cryptocurrency. I unconditionally deny the Newsweek report. In his letter — Nakamotos final public statement on the […]
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