Satoshi Nakamoto Found?

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You have most likely already heard about that budding young investigative journalist, Leah McGrath Goodman, using good old fashioned foot work (Looking up names in a phone book.) and tracking down the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. If not her article is a bloody great read, and also very convincing.

For the past 40 years, Satoshi Nakamoto has not used his birth name in his daily life. At the age of 23, after graduating from California State Polytechnic University, he changed his name to "Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto," according to records filed with the U.S. District Court of Los Angeles in 1973. Since then, he has not used the name Satoshi but instead signs his name "Dorian S. Nakamoto."
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http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html

Less than a day later, the expected press scrums form outside the front of Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto's home, as he is coaxed from his front door with the promise of a free lunch courtesy of Associated Press.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK3MV8XROIE[/youtube]

"Okay where is my lunch ticket" he says.

Not something you'd ever expect to hear from a man sitting on an estimated 1 million Bitcoins!

Many in the crypto community worried that when the creator of Bitcoin would be discovered it might destroy the currency, as the public shifts it's focus to the creator rather than what he created. Even core Bitcoin dev team contributor, Gregory Maxwell (aka nullc on reddit.) recently suggested:

information about the identity of the creator would be harmful to the Bitcoin ecosystem. All humans have quirks and flaws. People opposed to Bitcoin, and conditioned by trust based system to evaluate based on reputation rather than merit, would search out minuta from the creators life to distort and use to discredit the system. Scorned ex-lovers, kindergarten teachers, an unpaid traffic ticket, failure-to or excessive participation in local elections, sexual proclivities, racial background... all invoked to make whatever points people wish to make. "Bitcoin's creator didn't have a degree from a prestigious university, and got Cs in school, so Bitcoin must be flawed!"

Then we'd have the risk of the public hanging on his every word many institutions suffer founder's syndrome where the respect for their creator fixes them as a single point of failure in an organization which has long since grown past their ability to manage. The creator of the system might find it difficult to comment on anything without having his words micro-analyzed, and the purpose of Bitcoin might be undermined by centralization around the creators position instead of more equable processes.
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http://www.reddit.com/user/nullc

But less than a 5% drop in Bitcoin's price, and a day later, has the real Satashi Nakamoto surfaced and posted a comment on his original posting & release of the Bitcoin White Paper from way back in February 11, 2009, to prove otherwise!?

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Permalink Reply by Satoshi Nakamoto 1 hour ago
I am not Dorian Nakamoto.
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The significance of this reply should not be lost. Nothing has been heard from Satoshi Nakamoto since 2011. For him to post a reply on this page, his original post for the release of Bitcoin White Paper; That he and Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto are not the same person; This is the real Satoshi Nakamoto sending a message to those who are searching for him, that they are not even close.

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum...rce?x=1&id=2003008:Topic:9402&page=1#comments

Sorry about the edits; Just wanted to make this post as up to date as possible :).
 
Dorian S. Nakamoto denies he is Bitcoin's 'Satoshi Nakamoto' via the AP.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrrtA6IoR_E[/youtube]

Unless the email is hacked, the real 'Satoshi Nakamoto' writes: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto

Email could be hacked butsome further backing of sorts regarding "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."
https://twitter.com/jdaviescoates/status/441776951078838272

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Source: http://i.imgur.com/RHwZi4l.png

What a palava..
 
Says that he is not the guy...

A day after the news broke that Satoshi Nakamoto was a 64-year-old Japanese man living in California, Nakamoto has denied being the creator of Bitcoin in an exclusive two-hour interview with The Associated Press.

Nakamoto said he had never heard of bitcoin until his son told him he had been contacted by a Newsweek reporter three weeks ago. He acknowledged that many of the details in Newsweek's report are correct, including that he once worked for a defense contractor, and that his given name at birth was Satoshi. But he strongly disputed the magazine's assertion that he is "the face behind bitcoin."

"I got nothing to do with it," he said, repeatedly.
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Personally, I think it's him.
But I would deny the hell out of it as well.
I hope for his sake he fades back into obscurity, as he wants. Even though he created it, Bitcoin is way bigger than him, now.
 
The name "Satoshi Nakamoto" in Japan is the equivalent of "John Smith" in an Australian phone book.
 
Earthjade said:
Personally, I think it's him.
But I would deny the hell out of it as well.
I hope for his sake he fades back into obscurity, as he wants. Even though he created it, Bitcoin is way bigger than him, now.
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It's not him, few more days the rumors will be laid to rest.

Just went through allot of the media coverage , seems they are starting to back away from this story the more that surfaces , the evidence is just laughable now.

Leah goodman just dug herself a massive hole, and looks like she is starting to realise this. She will lay low now
 
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