In 2014, Newsweek doxxed Dorian Nakamoto, an unassuming senior, as the creator of bitcoin. The bumbling Dorian, who claimed never to have heard of the digital currency, was besieged by journalists for days, prompting him to plot a harassment lawsuit. As introductions to bitcoin go, Dorian’s was hellish. And yet, three years on from the false dox, something strange has happened: Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto has embraced the bitcoin life and assumed the persona of his faceless namesake.
At Bitconf 2017, a gathering of bitcoin luminaries and blockchain startups held on December 4-5 in Colombia, there were the usual faces including veteran cryptographer Nick Szabo. Also in attendance was an elderly Japanese-American whose hobbies include model trains and who has struggled to find work for the past decade, save for brief stints as a laborer, poll-taker, and substitute teach. Dorian S. Nakamoto.How did the man once misidentified as the creator of bitcoin wind up thousands of miles from home at a bitcoin conference? A man who was once forced to issue a statement through his lawyer noting:
Newsweek’s false report has been the source of a great deal of confusion and stress for myself, my 93-year old mother, my siblings, and their families.
In the three years since Dorian was misidentified as Satoshi, a lot has happened to bitcoin. And a lot has happened in the life of the now 67-year-old who got off on the wrong foot with bitcoin. In the intervening years, Dorian’s stance on the cryptocurrency has softened. At the fifth annual Bitconf in Bogotá, Dorian Nakamoto looked relaxed. He seemed to be relishing his role as the fake Satoshi, and even attended a press conference with the event’s organizers.
There, he shared his perspective on winding up unexpectedly as the face of the world’s hottest digital currency. Dorian recalled the first time he learned of bitcoin, after son Erick contacted him to report that a journalist had been digging into his background. He added:
[They] approached my wife and asked her personal things. And I did not like it when they approached my children later. Why would I involve my children? I am not a superstar, I am not a public person…I believe in freedom of expression, but I do not believe that the media should take a person from his private life and wash his dirty laundry, including my medical history, including my recent battle with cancer.
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US States Hostile to Bitcoin
“Conflicting information about Bitcoin abounds,” Mr. Galvin continues, “with some calling it a ‘craze’ or a ‘bubble’ and others touting it as an amazing investment.” Why anyone would refer to such a scheme “as an amazing investment,” in light of his pronounced protestations to the contrary, isn’t made clear by the Secretary. Indeed, it is also not known how the man holding the ancestral office of Samuel Adams has determined bitcoin to be a bubble. Readers are left with only an appeal to authority, his — an authority found to be not in compliance with voting laws back in 2008 by yet another authority, the Department of Justice. Mr. Galvin demonstrates his cryptocurrency illiteracy in point 6, curiously asserting the blockchain “is still experimental and is subject to changes, errors, or criminal activity which could adversely affect your virtual wallet or erase your Bitcoin value.” Back in 2014, bored Massachusetts state officials also issued warnings about bitcoin. It’s a way for them to attempt relevancy, the “do something” phenomenon so prevalent in US bureaucratic circles.It joins Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, New Mexico, New York, and Washington as more or less hostile to bitcoin, though no legislation, as of this writing, has been proposed by Massachusetts.Neighboring state, New Hampshire, has taken a completely different approach. Its Governor signed into law provisions exempting bitcoiners from ever having to be licensed to trade. The state actively encourages bitcoin businesses.