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Looks like the Grinch stole bitcoin...
He looks like Dr Zeuss' 'Cat in a Hat'
Looks like he spent all of his bitcoins on Silk Road...
Where is Called Lightman when you need him?
If he has no comment to make the story should end, his life is getting turned upside down for nothing.
He's turned the financial world upside down and quite possibly made a fortune in the process, apparently he achieved something that computer scientist's have been trying to achieve for decades and in some serious circles are wanting for him to receive a Nobel prize so whether he wanted it or not the genie is out the bottle.
It's obvious to anyone with a working brain that this guy is not the Bitcoin creator. The Bitcoin "Satoshi Nakamoto" was very careful to hide his real identity, so we can be sure of one thing: neither "Satoshi" nor "Nakamoto" are part of his real name.
I'd bet a modest amount that he isn't even of Japanese descent.
The concept of "innocent until proven guilty" is just a fantasy nowadays, to coin a phrase. Once an allegation is made, you will need more than a bit of luck and a bit of courage to put all the bits and pieces together and defend your integrity.
You're assuming that the man who's life is getting kicked around is the man who did this. An assumption based on a) he has a similar name, b) his politics more or less match up, and c) he types in the same way as most people over the age of thirty.
In other words, a completely normal old man. Yet you think that he should have no objection to what these parasites are doing to him.
He's turned the financial world upside down and quite possibly made a fortune in the process, apparently he achieved something that computer scientist's have been trying to achieve for decades and in some serious circles are wanting for him to receive a Nobel prize
You can stop hyperventilating now.
He is an ex defense contractor computer engineer with a physics degree and his first response when he saw the reporter and camera was to call the police (strange) then when questioned about bitcoin his first response in front of police was to say "he is no longer involved in that and it has been turned over to other people and he now has no connection, as a recluse of course he is going to deny especially that he is being hounded, sure I don't agree with the chasing of him but...
Hide in plain sight?
If, then it worked with you: you are fooled.
The journalist must be incredibly daft. All the algorithms involved yet S.N. can't even substitute the letters in his name.
He's really not turned the financial world upside down.
"I'd bet a modest amount that he isn't even of Japanese descent."
Now I'm laughing.
I'll take that bet!
‘I got nothing to do with it.’
But he'd say that, wouldn't he?
Precisely - denial is the greatest proof positive he must be the originator of Bitcoin.
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Did you invent the internets as well?
There's a new plot twist - he's just admitted that it is him - which means it isn't him?
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Newsweek tell it, anybody could have worked for Nakamoto. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, pfff....he's gone.
The reporter clearly isnt used to speaking to someone whose English is a second language. Mistakes like this often happen. She was just chumping at the bit to get her story.
I can imagine exactly how that story went down.
As for the chase, it is ridiculous, but that is the press. they will not even let you walk anywhere.
there are vids and they are hilarious
The reporter clearly isnt used to speaking to someone whose English is a second language.
He seems to have lived in the States since the early 70's!
His English sounded fine. To be honest, his Japanese sounded very rusty. That is the language he was struggling with in the video above...
The reporter clearly isnt used to speaking to someone whose English is a second language. Mistakes like this often happen. She was just chumping at the bit to get her story.
Perhaps you were just champing at the bit (although apparently "chomping" is acceptable) to get out your "chumping at the bit" bit in... I guess to some whose first language is English, mistakes like this often happen!
bitcoin and a billion or so...is nothing?
He created a monster and he knows it.
for realz dude, buy them now cause they are only going to go up again.... this happens every time
I just wanna know what they finally decided on for lunch...
helps separate the journalists from the muppets.... something about somebodies speech of things being noted
READ ALL ABOUT IT! MAN NOT ACCUSED OF ANY CRIME PERSECUTED BY MEDIA! FULL PHOTOGRAPHIC COVERAGE!
In other news: The Murdoch/NSA/GCHQ invasion into our privacy is outrageous and untenable.
Guardian
- you either believe in personal privacy or you do not. For my money
there is less measurable harm than MI6 reading my Facebook for signs of
blowing up commuters than you assisting an absolutely unnecessary
exposé.
It's not like this guy is accused of war crimes or something...
don't knock it, at least somebody is recording all the crap that goes online so that in a couple of hundred years historians will be able to judge what a bunch of muppets we all were while going about destroying the planet.
The guy hopped into a reporter's car and went with him for free sushi. When the presence of other reporter's became a distraction he went with the first reporter to AP's downtown headquarters.
I wouldn't exactly call that "persecution."
So he's dealing with it well. Good for him. Does this mean no-one can ever be harrassed unless they're cowering in a corner, crying?
This is an old man with a lot of health problems, he's hardly been able to move for days, he's probably going to have to move house because everyone thinks he's got a fortune to steal, and you think just because he approaches it with a smile he's not being persecuted?
Are you shure about what you say? Take a look at this video and the links between CIA - "start ups" like Google or Facebook and Bitcoin sponsored by InQtel (a very private company looooooool). Jeez this world is made for slaves... http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/06/executive-order-blocking-property-certain-persons-contributing-situation
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I've got to correct one factual error - the price of Bitcoin did not slump to $130 (you copied that from Newsweek, I guess). The lowest the price fell to on a legitimate exchange (Bitstamp) was $400 on 25 February, the day MtGox stopped trading. The 'price' fell to about $100 on MtGox in the days before it collapsed when it disabled bitcoin withdrawals and unethically kept trading in the ensuing panic.
MtGox had not been the most popular exchange in terms of volume for some months as a result of its financial irregularities and its prices were rarely indicative of fair market price.
'fair market price' for this currency could easily fall to zero - it depends entirely on confidence, and it has been incredibly volatile so far (for a currency).
YES WE ALL KNOW THIS, THIS IS NOT NEW INFORMATION.
Christ, someone mention Ponzi scheme or something about deflation being bad, then I can finish up my Bitcoin Bingo Comments card.
Quite surprised actually that when reporters are asking him to speak Japanese,he replies in Russian?
Satoshi Nakamoto, a name attributed to the currency’s founder, was widely deemed a pseudonym- What...."sugar in book", bit of insult to some tracking cryptos at how pathetically daft some really are. GCHQ,might well have some acid heads pratting around during the late shifts,they ain't bloody that naive though,I would have presumed,then again assumptions are based on perceptions they do say.
No! I am bitcoin....
I am not Heisenberg.
Looks like a scene taken straight from Python's Life of Brian.
Only the true Messiah denies his divinity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMJYQ9LKGQ
Now, fuck off......
I've heard of,even read the garden of forking paths.Am well
aware of the tune "keep right on to the end of the road" This bloke
though,can't even find the path to his own road with a car awaiting for
him. No he has to trudge across his neighbour's gardens speaking
simultaneously three different languages.Then has to ask for
directions?For what? His free lunch ticket? Hells bloody bells no wonder
the World is going to hell in a cart.
What's on the lunch menu? Tyrannosaurus steak? or tyrannosaurus and yakitori,washed down with some Kirin ale?
This guy is funny. Next episode: he pulls off is mask to reveal he is Olivia Newton-John.
And he would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids...
He must stay strong and continue the good fight.
Well id certainly like my share of the proceeds then
Maybe I'm showing my age here, but when I started using word processors, they automatically put a double space after a full stop for you. It's probably a rule in some long-forgotten style guide.
I was told to use a double space after a full stop in school typing lessons in 80's...
My favourite bit of "proof" in the Newsweek account. He must be the Nakamoto who wrote the Bitcoin manifesto because ... "The punctuation in the proposal is also consistent with how Dorian S. Nakamoto writes, with double spaces after periods and other format quirks."
The Bitcoin paper was typeset using LaTeX, which leaves slightly larger spaces after full stops by default. I can't read the Newsweek article because it's behind a paywall and I have no interest in evading it, but if this is what their "proof" consists of, anyone in academic science could have created Bitcoin.
Apparently "Satoshi Nakamoto" - it of the online handle - has been roused from 4 years of dormancy to declare "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=0ye0gncqg772o
And if he is the inventor of bit coin... What then? The media doesn't flock to a story like flies on poo, unless something is in it for them or their owners. They're chasing this guy to deflect attention away from the real current administrators of bitcoin -- people like this dude. It has a connection to organized crime. The media wouldn't be pushing this ponzi scheme unless the right people were in place waiting downstream to cash in; and one of those persons is definitely not this poor old man. Leave him alone you maggots.
It's Nigel Farrage, FFS!
HAHAHAHA...
That was exactly my first thought!
There really is no such thing as a free lunch: dude becomes BTC meme anyway...
No. Just Newsweek being Newsweek ← peddling garbage.
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto
Gosh! Exciting innit.
I believe him. He has an honest face...I think.
Leave the man alone!
The real Nakamoto has come out of the isolation and denied it on P2P blog.
Bit coin seems to have certain people worried.
Can't they just check in his wallet?
In the second photo he looks like nigelomoto faragatoko!
Has anyone seen them in the same room?
Fake.
BitCoin was created very similar to a financial instrument which implies a financial understanding of the currency markets. The first release of the code wasn't much to look at which is why early SN hunters looked for people who might be experts in currencies but also involved in cryptography, ergo cryptocurrency.
Newsweek reporter obviously doesn't know what she is talking about or is grasping at straws.
He is a libertarian.
Libertarians group .....Koch?
Koch's main financial adviser .......GS?
Bitcoin prices are on the up again. Afyer mtgox collapse. One less weaknchain in the system. Thw winklevoss purchase no dount helped too
And Jesus, why would you name a currency system after an Italian car manufacturer!
(as good as the little 500 is)
Has this fellow been made a patsy?
Leave him alone. He's old. He's had a lot of health problems. You lot - and you published the story, so I don't care whether there was a Guardian journalist harrassing him or not - are a disgrace.
What next, hacking his phone? Long lens shots of a granddaughter in a bikini saying she looks 'all grown up'? Stop ruining this guy's life, you pathetic vermin.
Of course, this will be modded in no time, because we can't possibly criticise the, ahem, 'integrity' of the journalistic profession, and their proud, noble demolition of an old man's life.
the enigmatic, anonymous architect of the troubled currency
The Guardian really is becoming a dreadful mouthpiece of the system. Troubled currency??!! Why would you make such an unsubstantiated proclamation if you were an objective and unbiased reporter???
May I suggest that the author reads up on this so called newfangled "currency" before making himself look any more of a fool than he already does.
http://letstalkbitcoin.com/bitcoin-and-the-three-laws-of-robotics/
Agreed, poor journalism at best, and laughably ironic when you compare bitcoin to a genuinely 'troubled currency', like the dollar.
....Detractors have accused Bitcoin of facilitating drug laundering.... Why do they never add this to every single article about fiat money as they do every article about bitcoin it makes them sound lazy having to explain why people like Bitcoin
“I’m not involved in bitcoin. Wait a minute, I want my free lunch first. I’m going with this guy,” Nakamoto said, pointing at an AP reporter. “I’m not in bitcoin, I don’t know anything about it.”
What a hero! NAKAMOTO for head of world bank!
I think you'll both find I'm not Satoshi
Now back to Mr. Satoshi and his as reported in detail his lunch.Which everyone knows in Japanese are made in Bento boxes.
私が箱を開けます。
The
markers が (ga) and を (o) are, respectively, subject and object markers
for the words that precede them. Technically, the sentence could be
translated a number of ways ("I open a box", "It is I who open the
boxes", etc.), but this does not affect the SOV analysis.
Japanese has some flexibility in word order, so an OSV is also possible. (箱を私が開けます。)
However
in RUSSIAN Russian is an inflected language and very flexible in word
order; it allows all possible word combinations. Она его любит for
example.
WHY DID YOU CREATE BITCOIN, SIR? SIR, CAN WE ASK YOU ABOUT BITCION? WHY DID YOU CREATE BITCOIN? WHO WAS INVOLVED IN BITCOIN? SIR WHY DID YOU DO BITCOIN?
I don' think that journalist understands Bitcoin.
p.s. I'm Satoshi Nakamoto
"Number one, Please step forward."
"My name is Satoshi Nakamoto and I am the inventor of Bitcoin."
"Step back."
"Number two, Please step forward."
"My name is Satoshi Nakamoto and I am the inventor of Bitcoin."
"Step back."
"Number three, Please step forward."
"My name is Satoshi Nakamoto and I am the inventor of Bitcoin."
"Step back."
"Will the real Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, now please step forward?"
Good game, now leave the poor geezer alone.
From the coments I read here it seems that everybody find this situation very amusing... right? "Leave this funny face Japanese guy alone!", or "Wow he looks like Nigel Farage", or "Nakamoto for head of world bank". I even read someone saying that the guardian should be covering more serious stories like the NSA revelations instead of a story of someone who has done no crime!!... well think twice my dear sheeple: This guy is a nothing than a psycopanth (as much as any of the NSA or GCHQ contractors working for these agencies) that was developing new crypto-technologies under strict rules of confidentiality and in complete anonymously, in order to create a new type of fiat currency: The Bitcoin.
Take a look at this video posted way before Mgox collapsed and the Snowden revelations, and please try to understand how the lovely and free world you live in works...even for very successful "start ups" like Google or Facebook (that are not related to the NSA story right??, right??) Wake up!!!! http://sgtreport.com/2013/03/bitcoin-cia-connection/
07 March 2014 3:36am
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