{"id":11653,"date":"2023-04-24T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2023-04-24T11:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:01:49","slug":"bitcoin-creator-mystery-continues-dorian-nakamoto-speaksout-unveils-government-contracting-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/?p=11653","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin creator mystery continues: Dorian Nakamoto speaksout, unveils government contracting past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\r\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"totafreearti-20\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\r\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"crypto\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"false\";\r\namzn_assoc_title = \"\";\r\namzn_assoc_rows =\"1\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dorian Nakamoto denied involvement with Bitcoin&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n<p>In a video shared by @CryptoNewsYes, Dorian Nakamoto clarified that he had nothing to do with building Bitcoin (BTC) \u2014 stating that he was &#8220;just an engineer doing something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main reason I&#8217;m here is to clear my name; that I have nothing to do with Bitcoin, nothing to do with developing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he revealed that during the early development of Bitcoin in 2001, he was working as a government contractor \u2014 he did not state the nature of this role.<\/p>\n<p>When presented with copies of messages \u2014 presumably from the Bitcointalk.org forum in which Satoshi Nakamoto communicated development progress \u2014 Dorian Nakamoto said, &#8220;I never communicated with Bitcoins&#8221; \u2014 adding that in 2010, when the messages were dated from, &#8220;I was at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Satoshi Nakamoto mystery<\/h2>\n<p>The identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n<p>The Bitcoin community has put forward several likely candidates, including the late Hal Finney &#8211; a cryptographer who was extensively involved in the development of Bitcoin. Finney was the first recipient of a BTC transfer, and some speculate that he sent those first Bitcoins to himself.<\/p>\n<p>Programmer Nick Szabo is another popular choice. Szabo had already developed a decentralized, proof-of-work virtual currency called &#8220;Bit gold,&#8221; publishing its paper in 1998 \u2014 more than a decade before Bitcoin rolled out.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, with the discovery of the Bitcoin whitepaper embedded in every Mac operating system from Catalina onwards, there has been renewed speculation connecting Steve Jobs to Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n<p>However, the individual or group that created Bitcoin is widely considered technically competent at coding and cryptography \u2014 which Jobs was not.<\/p>\n<p>Apple co-founder Steven Wozniak said Jobs never coded but was proficient enough at it &#8220;to alter and change and add to other designs&#8221; occasionally. Wozniak describes Jobs more as a visionary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Steve didn\u2019t ever code. He wasn\u2019t an engineer and he didn\u2019t do any original design.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Dorian Nakamoto<\/h2>\n<p>Public information on Dorian Nakamoto described him as an American-Japanese physicist who had adopted libertarian views after being fired from jobs multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>Since being &#8220;outed&#8221; by Newsweek in 2014, Dorian has consistently denied being Satoshi Nakamoto \u2014 saying the connection has caused him and his family frequent stress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not create, invent or otherwise work on Bitcoin. I unconditionally deny the Newsweek report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a coincidental twist, at one point, Dorian lived close to Finney in Temple City, California.<\/p>\n<p>The post Bitcoin creator mystery continues: Dorian Nakamoto speaksout, unveils government contracting past appeared first on CryptoSlate.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\r\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"totafreearti-20\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\r\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"bitcoin\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"false\";\r\namzn_assoc_title = \"\";\r\namzn_assoc_rows =\"1\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-creator-mystery-continues-dorian-nakamoto-speaksout-unveils-government-contracting-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorian Nakamoto denied involvement with Bitcoin&#8217;s development. In a video shared by @CryptoNewsYes, Dorian Nakamoto clarified that he had nothing to do with building Bitcoin (BTC) \u2014 stating that he was &#8220;just an engineer doing something else.&#8221; &#8220;The main reason I&#8217;m here is to clear my name; that I have nothing to do with Bitcoin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethereum-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11655,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions\/11655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}