Elon Musk Says He Is Not Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto (bloomberg.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @03:20AM from the mystery-solved dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Not only does Elon Musk deny being the mysterious creator of bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto, but he's also forgotten where he keeps his cryptocurrency. Musk's assertions came in response to a blog post coursing through digital-currency sites that suggested the PayPal co-founder and Tesla chief executive officer himself is probably the bitcoin originator who used the alias Nakamoto. "Not true," Musk said Tuesday in a tweet. "A friend sent me part of a BTC a few years, but I don't know where it is."

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Satoshi Nakamoto by zmooc · 2017-11-28 03:44 · Score: 3, Informative

Isn't one of the most defining characteristics of Satoshi Nakamoto that he says that he isn't Satoshi Nakamoto? :p

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Re:No by pr0fessor · 2017-11-28 04:20 · Score: 3, Informative

PayPal was a competing product to Musk's x.com the companies merged and Musk was removed from the CEO position when the company re-branded as paypal and the two products were merged. He sat on the board until it was bought out by ebay a couple years later.