[latj]

The two stories arent mutually exclusive.

According to Newsweek the man acknowledged that he had worked on bitcoin: "I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it"

AP says the main is denying he ever worked on bitcoin.

He very well could have said both of those things.

[declan]

Imagine this: Dorian Nakamoto was a former DoD contractor working on classified project and was not Mr. Bitcoin.

A woman started (from his perspective) stalking him, emailing him under false pretenses, phoning him, calling his son, and then showing up at his house in person. He called the cops to keep this stalker (again, from his perspective) away from his house. She yelled some questions at him from a distance and he might have thought she was asking about DoD work. "No longer involved and cannot discuss" is a reasonable answer. As well as: Don't come back.

I asked Newsweek's editor in chief a few hours ago about any recording: https://twitter.com/declanm/status/441713108763951104

No response.

[latj]

I knew I should be weary of the writer after this:

"Satoshi Nakamoto's 2008 online proposal also hints at his age, with the odd reference to "disk space" - something that hasn't been an issue since the last millennium"

1. Showing great concern for the small details, side cases, resource conservation is a timeless and ageless sign of a good programmer.

2. Disk space is most certainly still an issue.

[declan]

And that (DoD work, or at least NDA-covered work) is exactly what Dorian thought was happening: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-exclusive-man-denies-hes-b...