Is the media's coverage of Satoshi Nakamoto an epic fail?
Satoshi Nakamoto is a 64-year-old Japanese man living in California, who supposed to be the designer and creator of the original Bitcoin software. Newsweek’s Leah McGrath Goodman apparently managed to find the real Satoshi, and what’s even more surprising is that the humble man behind the crypt-o-currency craze was hiding in plain sight.
Newsweek didn't want a theory, it wanted a scoop. And so, faced with what was ultimately only circumstantial evidence, it went ahead and claimed that it had uncovered Satoshi that, basically, it was 100% certain
It would have been less satisfying, for Newsweek, to leave a bit of wiggle room to present the Dorian-is-Satoshi theory as just a theory, rather than as fact.
The Newsweek story falls short of offering definitive proof of Satoshi's identity as Bitcoin’s inventor. If this is the creator of Bitcoin, where’s the record of his previous work in computer programming, his patents, or publications.
We have reporters, who are professional fact discoverers and editorialists, who are professional opinion makers, or?
Satoshi Nakamoto has told the Associated Press he is not the creator of Bitcoin.