.....He AINT GOT SHIT TO DO WIT IT http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/supposed-founder-bitcoin-denies-creating-virtual-currency-article-1.1713869
A bit strange: supposed founder of Bitcoin denies creating virtual currency
Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto said in an interview that he’d first heard of Bitcoin three weeks ago, and that he knew nothing about it. The Newsweek reporter who identified him as the currency’s creator stood by her story.
The 64-year-old man reportedly sitting on a stash of around $500 million in Bitcoins denied having anything to do with the currency’s creation.
Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto told the Associated Press over the course of a two-hour interview Thursday that the first he’d ever heard of Bitcoin was three weeks ago when his son said a reporter for Newsweek had contacted him.
“I got nothing to do with it,” he said repeatedly.
“How long is this media hoopla going to last?” Following Newsweek’s story revealing “the face behind Bitcoin” Nakamoto said he was bombarded with phone calls from the media. Journalists waited outside of his modest home in Temple City, Calif.
Nakamoto, a native of Beppu, Japan, took particular issue with a key part of Newsweek’s article, in which he tells a reporter “I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it."
He claimed to have not said the quote.
"I'm saying I'm no longer in engineering. That's it," he said of the exchange. "And even if I was, when we get hired, you have to sign this document, contract saying you will not reveal anything we divulge during and after employment. So that's what I implied.
"It sounded like I was involved before with Bitcoin and looked like I'm not involved now. That's not what I meant. I want to clarify that," he said.
The reporter of the story, Leah McGrath Goodman, stood by the conversation and her conclusion that Nakamoto was the creator of Bitcoin.
Nakamoto did confirm that other details in the article were correct. He said he was born Satoshi Nakamoto and later added Dorian Prentice to his name. He admitted he had worked as a defense contractor.
Since Bitcoin’s debut in 2009 mystery has surrounded the creator — or creators — of the currency, identified only as Satoshi Nakamoto. Prior to Newsweek’s article the name was thought to be a pseudonym.
Nakamoto said he believes someone either came up with the name or specifically targeted him to be the fall guy for the currency's creation.
Newsweek pulled together its thesis on the creator's identity by matching Nakamoto's name, educational history, career, anti-government bent and writing style to the alleged creator of Bitcoin.
The virtual money has become increasingly popular among techies, libertarians, criminals and investors because it allows for exchanges across borders without involving banks, credit card issuers or other third parties. The value of a Bitcoin has fluctuated wildly. In December a single Bitcoin reached an all-time high of $1,200. It was worth around $665 Thursday.
The nearest Nakamoto has come to working on a financial system, he said, was a project for Citibank with a company called Quotron, which provided real-time stock prices to brokerage firms.
Nakamoto said he worked on the software side for about four years starting in 1987.
"That had nothing to do with skipping financial institutions," he said.
But he didn’t deny that he had the ability to develop a complex online currency.
“Capability? Yes, but any programmer could do that,” he said.
