A Newsweek article earlier this month claimed to have found the mystery man behind the crypto-currency Bitcoin. However, that very man, Dorian Nakamoto, has now hired a lawyer to unconditionally deny that he’s involved in Bitcoin. In a statement sent to Reuters blogger_Felix Salmon via Ethan Kirschner, Dorian Nakamoto’s lawyer in Los Angeles, Nakamoto calls the Newsweek report “false” and says the first time he heard the word ‘Bitcoin’ was in February this year. He says that his Internet service has already been cut off in 2013 due to “severe financial distress” and adds that his prospects for employment have...

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