A Newsweek article in 2014 said that Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese American man living in California, was the elusive inventor of bitcoin. According to the article, he was trained as a physicist and worked on classified defense projects, but he, too, denied the claims. More from our blog The same day his north Sydney home was raided by Australian federal police in connection with a tax investigation, unrelated to bitcoin.
Finney made a significant contribution to the new version of the PGP protocol, but he had to hide his involvement from the government. So he was very well aware of the problems Phil had regarding PGP. Because of that, I can understand his desire to hide his identity when creating bitcoin. Channel Ars Technica Gerald Cotten was an early cryptocurrency evangelist and part of a Vancouver group in 2013 that referred to itself as the Vancouver Bitcoin Co-op. On the surface, he seemed like a “nice Canadian guy” who was an expert on cryptocurrency and believed in the power of bitcoin, and cryptocurrency in general, to be a transformational technology for finance. According to a lengthy Vanity Fair piece, Cotten “always seemed to be smiling. It was a gentle, unflappable smile. It put strangers at ease; it made him seem lighthearted.”