How the NSA identified Satoshi Nakamoto

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 11:56:32 PDT 2018


https://medium.com/cryptomuse/how-the-nsa-caught-satoshi-nakamoto-868affcef595

The ‘creator’ of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, is the world’s most
elusive billionaire (worth more than $7B as of November 2017). Very
few people outside of the Department of Homeland Security know
Satoshi’s real name. In fact, DHS will not publicly confirm that even
THEY know the billionaire’s identity. Satoshi has taken great care to
keep his identity secret employing the latest encryption and
obfuscation methods in his communications. Despite these efforts
(according to my source at the DHS) Satoshi Nakamoto gave
investigators the only tool they needed to find him ...

http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/
https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynakamotoemails.pdf


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