Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek 390
DoctorBit writes "According to today's Newsweek article, Satoshi Nakamoto is ... Satoshi Nakamoto — a 64-year-old Japanese-American former defense contractor living with his mother in a modest Temple City, California suburban home. According to the article, '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.' and '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.' The article quotes him as responding when asked about bitcoin, 'I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it, ... It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection.' I imagine that he will now have to move and hire round-the-clock security for his own protection."
Protection? (Score:2, Funny)
"I imagine that he will now have to move and hire round-the-clock security for his own protection."
Really?
Does Bitcoin work like River City Ransom? If I punch him enough times, will a flood of shiny coins spew from his unconscious body?
Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why? (Score:4, Funny)
Why would he have to move/hire protection? I guess I can see that he might be paranoid enough to think it's necessary, but why would it be actually necessary?
Given the sorts of weirdos who end up stalking ordinary celebrities, I'd flee this gravity well at relativistic speed if I were The Celebrity among some of the more... peculiar... elements of bitcoin fandom.
Re:"It's been turned over to other people" ? (Score:2, Funny)
What do they do?
They do what the Bitcoin Protocol was always intended to do: create and maintain the world's largest SHA256 Rainbow Table.
You didn't think this was all about about creating a decentralized crypto-currency did you?
Re:Model Trains? (Score:5, Funny)
I wanna know more about his trains-- does he have a cool layout?
It's pretty spartan, hey got caught up in the trains themselves. Each set of cars is arranged in a very specific sequence that he really gets worked up about, and I've noticed that it takes him longer and longer every time to decide on and add a new car to the end of the train....
I reject your reality and substitute my own.... (Score:5, Funny)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9rqm... [blogspot.com]
and his friend. They create crypto-currencies and attend raves.
He's just a patsy (Score:5, Funny)
I heard from a totally unreliable source . . . (Score:5, Funny)