and he says something in the ap interview about that bitcoin was developed in 2001 - when i think the whitepaper was presented in 2008 - he says he was working on developing something else at that timeOn Fri, 2014-03-07 at 10:23 -0500, John Kelsey wrote:And let's not forget the possibility, that when he said
> So the reporter found someone who might be the inventor of bitcoin, or might be a little crazy and just saying so, or might be sick of weirdos "tracking him down" because of his name and just be saying what he thinks will get the reporter to go away. From what is in the article, how would we distinguish these possibilities?
>
> --John
"I no longer have anything to do with that and I can't
talk about it," he might have been talking about his prior
work for the US gummint, and the reporter simply quoted
him with an implication that he was talking about Bitcoin.
"Can't talk about it" is some pretty specific language, I
think. It sounds to me like an NDA, not a project now being
carried on by others.
I'd never have believed how much reporters misquote folks
or misapply the quotes they reproduce correctly, until I
actually got some first-hand experience with it.
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