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Bitcoin ‘Creator’: Wasn't Me

WHOOPS

After Newsweek claimed to unmask him.

Newsweek claimed to have located the reclusive founder of the digital currency Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, but the 64-year-old Japanese-American now says he didn't had never even heard of Bitcoin until the reporter contacted him. The father of six is a model-train collector, and has, as the article says, done contracted classified work for the U.S. military. Nakamoto granted a two-hour interview to the AP, telling them he never said he was involved. "It sounded like I was involved before with Bitcoin and looked like I'm not involved now," he said. "That's not what I meant." Newsweek stands by its story.

Read it at The Associated Press