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Did you actually believe yesterday that "Dorian" was the real "Satoshi"?
1 point by treebridge on March 7, 2014 | hide | past | favorite
After reading the AP interview, it seems clear that: 1) Dorian's "admission" to Goodman was actually just an admission that he worked on classified projects.

2) Dorian's written English is vastly, and provably, different than that used in Satoshi Bitcoin Forums

3) His mistaken use of the term "Bitcom" for "Bitcoin" is further proof -- and clearly not pre-meditated herring-dropping -- that the poor guy just was the victim of Newsweek's overzealous hope that it actually had a scoop big enough to put on its resurrected print journal.

BUT -- I foolishly just ate up and believed the whole thing.

Anyone else?

  Did you believe it yesterday and now realize you were wrong?

  Or do you still believe Dorian's the 'real' Satoshi?
For reference, the AP link:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-exclusive-man-denies-hes-bitcoin-founder

And the original Newsweek story:

http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html




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