Once again there's an article proclaiming that the mysterious founder of Bitcoin has been discovered. Amusingly, this candidate actually has the given name Satoshi Nakamoto, but now calls himself Dorian Nakamoto. However, the evidence is all circumstantial - the 64 year old man living in Temple City, California, could technically be the Bitcoin inventor; by all accounts he has the aptitude and the attitude, he was unemployed for five or so years leading up to the publishing of the original Bitcoin paper, and fell ill at about the time that Satoshi Nakamoto bowed out from developing the Bitcoin client further.
However, he denies that he is the founder, lives a relatively humble life, could do with the money that the million or so Bitcoins the real founder has presumably got access to, and his command of the English language appears to be much weaker than that of the writer of the original paper and bulletin board posts. Also, there's plenty of evidence that the real Bitcoin founder was paranoid about protecting his identity, so he's very unlikely to have used his own name in his dealings with the world.
My gut feeling is that he isn't the founder, although that may be wishful thinking on my part. But the coincidences add up to a fairly compelling story. I'd like to think that the real Bitcoin founder has thrown another red herring in our direction, and I'd be looking for a former associate of Dorian Nakamoto, who used the identity of his colleague as another layer of misdirection.
What do you think?
Update: even his own son describes Dorian S. Nakamoto as a bit of an "asshole". Perhaps the Bitcoin founder is indeed a previous co-worker who thought it would be an amusing to get a despised colleague to face a barrage of journalists.
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