Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek

DoctorBit writes "According to today's Newsweek article, Satoshi Nakamoto is ... Satoshi Nakamoto — a 64-year-old Japanese-American former defense contractor living with his mother in a modest Temple City, California suburban home. According to the article, '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.' and 'Nakamoto's family describe him as extremely intelligent, moody and obsessively private, a man of few words who screens his phone calls, anonymizes his emails and, for most of his life, has been preoccupied with the two things for which Bitcoin has now become known: money and secrecy.' The article quotes him as responding when asked about bitcoin, 'I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it, ... It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection.' I imagine that he will now have to move and hire round-the-clock security for his own protection."

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Protection from what?

[sjbe]

I imagine that he will now have to move and hire round-the-clock security for his own protection.

Protection from what? Bitcoin is not that big of a deal and I cannot conceive of a reason why anyone would care if he invented it or not other than idle curiosity.

Re:Why?

[geekoid]

Nope.
Soros does it out of necessity to try and stop the Koch brothers from destroying the country.
Soros want's the amount of control that comes from donating money removed. However how do you do that in the current system? If you don't play while your trying to fix it, you lose.

You should probably look at what they do and their reasons.