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BlackWidow


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Creator of Bitcoin Found
#19658653 - 03/06/14 09:33 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Satoshi Nakamoto stands at the end of his sunbaked driveway looking timorous. And annoyed.
He's wearing a rumpled T-shirt, old blue jeans and white gym socks, without shoes, like he has left the house in a hurry. His hair is unkempt, and he has the thousand-mile stare of someone who has gone weeks without sleep.
He stands not with defiance, but with the slackness of a person who has waged battle for a long time and now faces a grave loss.
Two police officers from the Temple City, Calif., sheriff's department flank him, looking puzzled. "So, what is it you want to ask this man about?" one of them asks me. "He thinks if he talks to you he's going to get into trouble."
"I don't think he's in any trouble," I say. "I would like to ask him about Bitcoin. This man is Satoshi Nakamoto."
"What?" The police officer balks. "This is the guy who created Bitcoin? It looks like he's living a pretty humble life."
I'd come here to try to find out more about Nakamoto and his humble life. It seemed ludicrous that the man credited with inventing Bitcoin - the world's most wildly successful digital currency, with transactions of nearly $500 million a day at its peak - would retreat to Los Angeles's San Bernardino foothills, hole up in the family home and leave his estimated $400 million of Bitcoin riches untouched. It seemed similarly implausible that Nakamoto's first response to my knocking at his door would be to call the cops. Now face to face, with two police officers as witnesses, Nakamoto's responses to my questions about Bitcoin were careful but revealing.
Tacitly acknowledging his role in the Bitcoin project, he looks down, staring at the pavement and categorically refuses to answer questions.
"I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he says, dismissing all further queries with a swat of his left hand. "It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection."
Nakamoto refused to say any more, and the police made it clear our conversation was over.
But a two-month investigation and interviews with those closest to Nakamoto and the developers who worked most frequently with him on the out-of-nowhere global phenomenon that is Bitcoin reveal the myths surrounding the world's most famous crypto-currency are largely just that - myths - and the facts are much stranger than the well-established fiction.
Far from leading to a Tokyo-based whiz kid using the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" as a cipher or pseudonym (a story repeated by everyone from Bitcoin's rabid fans to The New Yorker), the trail followed by Newsweek led to a 64-year-old Japanese-American man whose name really is Satoshi Nakamoto. He is someone with a penchant for collecting model trains and a career shrouded in secrecy, having done classified work for major corporations and the U.S. military.
Standing before me, eyes downcast, appeared to be the father of Bitcoin.
Not even his family knew.
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: BlackWidow] 9
#19658668 - 03/06/14 09:36 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Congratulations to whatever asshole Journalist decided to oust a great man that just wanted to be left alone. Fucking pricks.
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BlackWidow


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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: fapjack]
#19658678 - 03/06/14 09:38 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Apparently they had pictures of his house up on the news article, but they took it down in fear of a lawsuit.
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Cyclohexylamine
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: BlackWidow]
#19658758 - 03/06/14 09:59 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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I saw this earlier but I am not so sure it even is true.
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Kaiser Soshi would be proud.
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: fapjack] 1
#19658799 - 03/06/14 10:09 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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fapjack said: Congratulations to whatever asshole Journalist decided to oust a great man that just wanted to be left alone. Fucking pricks.
A great man? Why is he a great man?
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: robbyberto]
#19658822 - 03/06/14 10:14 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Oh yea everyone take ur naked dicks out an rub all the cum out
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: Sheekle]
#19658824 - 03/06/14 10:15 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Put sock puppets on ur dicks so theyre wearin clothes
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: Sheekle]
#19659096 - 03/06/14 11:34 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: BlackWidow]
#19659105 - 03/06/14 11:37 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Whoever wrote this article is an asshole
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: BlackWidow]
#19659219 - 03/06/14 12:27 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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BlackWidow said: Apparently they had pictures of his house up on the news article, but they took it down in fear of a lawsuit.
Oh no, His house and his picture are still up, They haven't even bothered to take it down.
Leah Mcgrath Goodman and others responsible need to go down hard.
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I don't see his house. In the comments they were saying you could practically read his license plate. That journalist is a cunt. I hope Newsweek gets the shit suedout of them, or hacked, or both. It'd be funny to see how that journalist would feel with all her info put on blast.
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Edited by Echro (03/06/14 12:32 PM)
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: Echro]
#19659246 - 03/06/14 12:36 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Echro said:
It'd be funny to see how that journalist would feel with all her info put on blast.
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: Echro]
#19659248 - 03/06/14 12:36 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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Look again
It's there, same article that was posted in this thread.
His car and license plate are in there too.
I hope the right people get hurt over this.
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Edited by Biodiversity (03/06/14 12:44 PM)
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BlackWidow


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Quote:
Biodiversity said: Look again
It's there, same article that was posted in this thread.
His car and license plate are in there too.
I hope the right people get hurt over this.

I can see a lawsuit happening. This guy has millions of dollars in bitcoin. I would fear being robbed if I were him.
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Echro
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Okay now I see the picture.
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: BlackWidow]
#19659308 - 03/06/14 12:57 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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I find it highly doubtful that this man is actually the creator of bitcoin.
She makes it sound convincing, but some of those quotes are just way too good to be true. I think she made some of that shit up.
Either way, she just got them huge amounts of unwanted attention. Way to go!
Edited by chopstick (03/06/14 01:28 PM)
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: robbyberto]
#19659359 - 03/06/14 01:15 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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robbyberto said:
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fapjack said: Congratulations to whatever asshole Journalist decided to oust a great man that just wanted to be left alone. Fucking pricks.
A great man? Why is he a great man?
Because Bitcoin is a huge contribution to mankind, whether or not it will stay around. I think DPR was a great man too, but nowhere near as great. They both changed the world in a pretty big way, or at least started the change.
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: fapjack]
#19659381 - 03/06/14 01:20 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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fapjack said:
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robbyberto said:
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fapjack said: Congratulations to whatever asshole Journalist decided to oust a great man that just wanted to be left alone. Fucking pricks.
A great man? Why is he a great man?
Because Bitcoin is a huge contribution to mankind, whether or not it will stay around. I think DPR was a great man too, but nowhere near as great. They both changed the world in a pretty big way, or at least started the change.
Agreed.
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Re: Creator of Bitcoin Found [Re: BlackWidow]
#19659422 - 03/06/14 01:35 PM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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BlackWidow said: having done classified work for major corporations and the U.S. military.
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