Bitcoin creator finally revealed. Pics and details inside

[ddh1122]

Newsweek just published an article reporting that they found the creator of Bitcoin. It's a LONG READ (very long read) and it's got a lot of info in it but I'll quote some of the most important stuff.

http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html?piano_t=1

 Satoshi Nakamoto stands at the end of his sunbaked driveway looking timorous. And annoyed

 
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.

 
Andresen, a Silicon Valley refugee in Amherst, Mass., says he worked closely with the person "or entity" known as Satoshi Nakamoto on the development of Bitcoin from June 2010 to April 2011. This was before the rise of today's multibillion-dollar Bitcoin economy, boosted last year by the unexpected, if cautious, endorsement of outgoing Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke, who said virtual currencies "may hold long-term promise."

Since then, Bitcoin ATMs have been cropping up across North America (with some of the first in Vancouver, British Columbia; Boston; and Albuquerque, N.M.) while the acceptance of Bitcoin has spread to businesses as diverse as Tesla, OkCupid, Reddit, Overstock.com and Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's aviation company, which has said it will blast people into space if they cough up enough Bitcoin.

"Working on Bitcoin's core code is really scary, actually, because if you wreck something, you can break this huge $8 billion project," says Andresen. "And that's happened. We have broken it in the past."

For nearly a year, Andresen corresponded with the founder of Bitcoin a few times a week, often putting in 40-hour weeks refining the Bitcoin code. Throughout their correspondence, Nakamoto's evasiveness was his hallmark, Andresen says.

"He was the kind of person who, if you made an honest mistake, he might call you an idiot and never speak to you again," Andresen says. 

 
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.

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."

Nakamoto was born in July 1949 in the city of Beppu, Japan, where he was brought up poor in the Buddhist tradition by his mother, Akiko. In 1959, after a divorce and remarriage, she immigrated to California, taking her three sons with her. Now age 93, she lives with Nakamoto in Temple City.

Nakamoto did not get along with his stepfather, but his aptitude for math and science was evident from an early age, says Arthur, who also notes, "He is fickle and has very weird hobbies."

Just after graduating college, Nakamoto went to work on defense and electronics communications for Hughes Aircraft in southern California. "That was just the beginning," says Arthur, who also worked at Hughes. "He is the only person I have ever known to show up for a job interview and tell the interviewer he's an idiot - and then prove it."

Nakamoto has six children. The first, a son from his first marriage in the 1980's, is Eric Nakamoto, an animation and 3-D graphics designer in Philadelphia. His next five children were with his second wife, Grace Mitchell, 56, who lives in Audubon, N.J., and says she met Nakamoto at a Unitarian church mixer in Cherry Hill, N.J., in the mid-1980s. She recalls he came to the East Coast after leaving Hughes Aircraft, now part of Raytheon, in his 20s and next worked for Radio Corporation of America in Camden, N.J., as a systems engineer.

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The Creator

His House

I feel like Newsweek violated OD with this. This mans identity, house, and details are out in the public now and who knows what's in his house. Now this guy might need security and all that. It's crazy how far the media will take it man

 

[ddh1122]

It truly is a long read and goes into a lot of detail. To understand completely you would have to read it all. I stopped less than halfway - will continue later. 

 

[atlien seeko]

So it was this guy afterall, ey? Cool.

 

[maldonado]

Read the whole thing this morning. Really interesting...

for whatever reason, I can't pull the article up anymore on Newsweek.com..

http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html?piano_t=1








that said, they violated big time. They provided a picture of him, gave this mans address, pictures of his house and license plate #, and basically violated any privacy he still had. If this truly is the guy, they just brought a bunch of unwarranted ish onto the man. A man that wished to remain anonymous from the jump..

 

[ddh1122]

Read the whole thing this morning. Really interesting...

for whatever reason, I can't pull the article up anymore on Newsweek.com..

http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html?piano_t=1








that said, they violated big time. They provided a picture of him, gave this mans address, pictures of his house and license plate #, and basically violated any privacy he still had. If this truly is the guy, they just brought a bunch of unwarranted ish onto the man. A man that wished to remain anonymous from the jump..

Word, exactly like I said. Just disrespectful man.. And the guy, from the article, sounded like he wanted no exposure once so ever - even before bitcoin even started

 

[maldonado]

Word, exactly like I said. Just disrespectful man.. And the guy, from the article, sounded like he wanted no exposure once so ever - even before bitcoin even started

yeah he fell back big-time, just to protect his privacy.

If its truly him, the man values his privacy over the riches he would get from cashing out his Bitcoin stash..

 

[ddh1122]

Reporters are going to his house now.

And them 4chan/bitcoin/reddit/etc dudes are about to start something I feel

 

[bhergh]

Cliffs ? Or is it that bitcoin guy creator reveal I'd by press. Now press bugging him n internet ppl mad at press?

 

[hyper cutter]

I'm usually against the 4chan ***kery, but in this case, Newsweek must become...ashes.

 

[nawghtyhare]

this whole bitcoin thing doesnt give people an eerie feeling????
plus something must be up[ for dude to REALLy wanna be low key
plus how was newsweek even tipped off to dude
not to mention that lady getting killed the bitcoin ceo or whatever she was
maaaaaaaan something seems fishy

 

[ddh1122]

this whole bitcoin thing doesnt give people an eerie feeling????
plus something must be up[ for dude to REALLy wanna be low key
plus how was newsweek even tipped off to dude
not to mention that lady getting killed the bitcoin ceo or whatever she was
maaaaaaaan something seems fishy

Word. I was about to try and get involved with bitcoin but was skeptical ever since it started. Glad I didn't. Something is gonna come out of this very soon and it won't be good

 

[sonoftony]

Reporters are going to his house now.
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And them 4chan/bitcoin/reddit/etc dudes are about to start something I feel


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***** about to get real

 

[jumpman247]

The internetz are going to go in on this chick.

 

[djyoung08]

Interesting that the founder getting media buzz

and

Autumn Radtke, CEO of Bitcoin Exchange just got offed....



EDIT- http://niketalk.com/t/585595/28-yea...e-dies-officials-rule-out-foul-play-but-do-we

 

[fraij da 5 11]

Not up on bitcoin... I see a lot of people saying this puts him and his family in danger.

Why is that?  Why would someone want to harm this guy?

 

[executive76]

Not up on bitcoin... I see a lot of people saying this puts him and his family in danger.

Why is that?  Why would someone want to harm this guy?

MONEY.

Could be by someone who's not fond of the currency or they could use him to get/mine bitcoins/steal his

 

[nawghtyhare]

Not up on bitcoin... I see a lot of people saying this puts him and his family in danger.

Why is that?  Why would someone want to harm this guy?

MONEY.

Could be by someone who's not fond of the currency or they could use him to get/mine bitcoins/steal his

yup and we all know that makes the world go around
imagine if people stopped putting there money in banks
and turned there money into bit coin currency and just mined bit coins
we all know the treasury department and banks wouldnt like that
crazy how we know all these crazy/shady things the government does but we NEVER unify and do anything about it

 

[mugen81]

From conversations with friends, Bitcoins are " untraceable" currency, to not only use all over the web but if you use "deep web" then you definately need them for transactions.
Plus there's money in "mining" them on the web...

 

[oo206oo]

You'd have to be an idiot to believe that story.

 

[fraij da 5 11]

 

Not up on bitcoin... I see a lot of people saying this puts him and his family in danger.

Why is that?  Why would someone want to harm this guy?

MONEY.

Could be by someone who's not fond of the currency or they could use him to get/mine bitcoins/steal his

Okay, I understand that but Millionaires walk amongst us daily without security detail... 

Explain "mine bitcoins" and how they'd use him to do-so... Do you mean they'd force him to "print money"?

I'm sure he'd have have a very secure way of storing his own bitcoins, however that may work.

 

[mugen81]

Okay, I understand that but Millionaires walk amongst us daily without security detail... 

Explain "mine bitcoins" and how they'd use him to do-so... Do you mean they'd force him to "print money"?

I'm sure he'd have have a very secure way of storing his own bitcoins, however that may work.

Basically you leave your computer on all day and night to figure out algorithm and codes, generally speaking for mining. Could take you weeks to just to get one. That's why a lot of people work together to get multiples or just to piece one together..
Anyway we can combine both threads into one...

 

[fraij da 5 11]

 

Okay, I understand that but Millionaires walk amongst us daily without security detail... 

Explain "mine bitcoins" and how they'd use him to do-so... Do you mean they'd force him to "print money"?

I'm sure he'd have have a very secure way of storing his own bitcoins, however that may work.

Basically you leave your computer on all day and night to figure out algorithm and codes, generally speaking for mining. Could take you weeks to just to get one. That's why a lot of people work together to get multiples or just to piece one together..
Anyway we can combine both threads into one...

How much is 1 bitcoin "worth"?

 

[picasso swerve]

I still dont understand how bitcoins work and how they actually hold any "value".

 

[maldonado]

You'd have to be an idiot to believe that story.

It may not be true, but its certainly plausible.

 

[ddh1122]

 
How much is 1 bitcoin "worth"?

Last time I checked it was like $693 but I could be wrong. Remember someone telling me at one point it was in the 1,000s