Bitcoin’s Creator Revealed! Actually is a Guy Named Satoshi Nakamoto! And Yes, a Libertarian (Naturally)!

The man pictured above is, says
Newsweek, the creator of bitcoin, Satoshi
Nakamoto:

Far from leading to a Tokyo-based whiz kid using the name
“Satoshi Nakamoto” as a cipher or pseudonym (a story repeated by
everyone from Bitcoin’s rabid fans to The New
Yorker), the trail followed by Newsweek led
to a 64-year-old Japanese-American man whose name really is Satoshi
Nakamoto. He is someone with a penchant for collecting model trains
and a career shrouded in secrecy, having done classified work for
major corporations and the U.S. military.

Nakamoto was hiding in the same way the author Thomas Pynchon
was “hiding” – in plain sight. He used a slightly different name in
his work life, but Nakamoto wasn’t in deep cover. Kudos to
Newsweek‘s Leah McGrath Goodwin for doing the work to find
him. He lives in Temple City, California and came to the U.S. as a
child:

Descended from Samurai and the son of a Buddhist priest,
Nakamoto was born in July 1949 in the city of Beppu, Japan, where
he was brought up poor in the Buddhist tradition by his mother,
Akiko. In 1959, after a divorce and remarriage, she immigrated to
California, taking her three sons with her. Now age 93, she lives
with Nakamoto in Temple City.

Like all great Americans, he lived for a while in New Jersey,
where he worked for RCA in Camden. He also worked for the FAA,
Hughes Aircraft, and a bunch of other firms. He also did defense
contract work.

And yes,  he is a libertarian whose own family didn’t
suspect him of being the inventor of the world’s leading
alt-currency.

A libertarian, Nakamoto encouraged his daughter to be
independent, start her own business and “not be under the
government’s thumb,” she says. “He was very wary of the government,
taxes and people in charge.”…

Calling the possibility her father could also be the father of
Bitcoin “flabbergasting,” Ilene Mitchell says she isn’t surprised
her father would choose to stay under cover if he was the man
behind this venture, especially as he is currently concerned about
his health.

“He is very wary of government interference in general,” she
says. “When I was little, there was a game we used to play. He
would say, ‘Pretend the government agencies are coming after you.’
And I would hide in the closet.”

Whole
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