On the evening of March 6th, 20 14, Leah McGrath Goodman, an American freelance writer, published an article on the website of Newsweek on Thursday, saying that she had found the inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, and interviewed him. It is said that this person lives in seclusion in a house at the foot of San Bernardino Mountain in Los Angeles.

Goodman said that Satoshi Nakamoto was 64 years old in 20 14. He is a Japanese-American and graduated from California State Polytechnic University with a bachelor's degree in physics. Moreover, Satoshi Nakamoto is not an alias, but his real name "Satoshi Nakamoto".

According to mcgrath's description, "I came here to try to understand Satoshi Nakamoto and his low-key life. Ironically, this person who is thought to have invented Bitcoin actually retired to San Bernardino, Los Angeles and stayed at home, completely ignoring his bitcoin wealth with a valuation of $400 million. "

In Temple City, California, the reporter met Satoshi Nakamoto. He looks scared and angry. He called the police, and the police asked the reporter what he wanted with this man. The reporter told the police that the man who claimed to be poor was Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.

It seems ridiculous that this man with an estimated $400 million bitcoin wealth should live in the foothills of San Bernardino. Equally unreasonable, when the reporter knocked on Satoshi Nakamoto's door, Satoshi Nakamoto's first reaction was to call the police.

It has nothing to do with bitcoin

In front of the police, Satoshi Nakamoto told reporters, "I have nothing to do with Bitcoin. I can't discuss Bitcoin any more. It doesn't matter to me that others are in charge of Bitcoin. "

Leah mcgrath Goodman described her encounter with Satoshi Nakamoto in detail in her report:

Satoshi Nakamoto stood at the other end of the sun-exposed driveway, looking nervous and annoyed.

He was wearing a wrinkled T-shirt, old blue jeans, white sports socks and no shoes, as if he had left home in a hurry. His hair was not combed, and his eyes stared blankly into the distance-as if he hadn't slept for weeks.

His expression is not tenacious, on the contrary, he shows fatigue-like a painful defeat after years of fighting.

Two policemen in Temple City, California held him and looked at me with a puzzled face. One said, "What exactly do you want to ask him? He thinks he will get into trouble if he talks to you. "

"I don't think he has any trouble," I said. "I want to ask him about Bitcoin. This person is Satoshi Nakamoto. "

"What?" The police don't believe it. "This is the guy who created bitcoin? It seems that he is quite frugal. "

There are several Satoshi Nakamoto in North America, and one person even claimed to be the father of Bitcoin on Linkedin, but their files are not consistent with the known information. Of course, Satoshi Nakamoto may also be a pseudonym, but the question is, why do some people use such an identifiable name and deliberately try to hide their identity? I found this Satoshi Nakamoto when I was searching a database containing information about American citizens. But it wasn't until I pulled his records from the National Archives and interviewed many people that all the clues came together.

I came here to learn more about Satoshi Nakamoto and restore his "humble" life. It seems ridiculous: the people who created Bitcoin-Bitcoin is the most widely spread and successful digital currency in the world, and the transaction volume of these currencies can reach nearly 500 million US dollars per day at the peak-actually live at the foot of San Bernardino Mountain in Los Angeles, stay at home and guard Bitcoin worth 400 million US dollars. It is also incredible that when I knocked on his door, Satoshi Nakamoto's first reaction was to call the police. Next to us are two policemen as witnesses. Satoshi Nakamoto and I are talking face to face. He was very careful when answering questions-but it revealed a lot.

Contrary to outside speculation, "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a real name. He is a 64-year-old Japanese American. He likes collecting model trains. I have worked in large enterprises and the US military, and engaged in confidentiality work.

His brother said of Satoshi Nakamoto: "He is a great engineer, but I am just an ordinary engineer. He is clever and addicted to his own thinking world. Math, engineering, computer ... you name it, he can do it. But my brother is also an asshole. He worked in secrecy, and for a while, his life was blank. If you can't find him, he will deny everything. He never admitted that he initiated Bitcoin. "

Later, this reporter has been communicating with Satoshi Nakamoto by email and talking about some things, until one day the reporter mentioned Bitcoin, and Satoshi Nakamoto didn't reply.

Satoshi Nakamoto's family described him as an extremely intelligent and emotional person who attached great importance to personal privacy. He is taciturn, used to blocking the screen when talking on the phone, hiding his name when sending emails, and obsessed with two things all his life: money and secrets-these are just the two words that best describe Bitcoin.

In the past 40 years, Satoshi Nakamoto has never used his real name in his life. According to the file of Los Angeles District Court 1973, when he graduated from California Polytechnic University at the age of 23, he changed his name to Dorian prentiss Satoshi Nakamoto. From then on, he stopped using the name "Cong" and used S (Dorian S Satoshi Nakamoto) as his signature.

As a descendant of samurai, Satoshi Nakamoto was born in Beppu, Japan on July 1949. His mother, Quanzi, is a Buddhist. She brought him up with great pains and lived a poor life. From 65438 to 0959, his parents divorced, his mother remarried and immigrated to California with three sons. She is 93 years old and lives in Temple City with Satoshi Nakamoto.

Satoshi Nakamoto didn't get along well with his stepfather, but according to his younger brother Arthur, Satoshi Nakamoto showed his talent in mathematics and science at an early age, but he also showed "fickle and eccentric interests".

After graduation, Satoshi Nakamoto joined Hughes Aircraft Company and worked in the fields of national defense and electronic communication. "This is just the beginning," said Arthur, who also works for Hughes Aircraft Company. "He is the only person I know who called the interviewer an idiot in the interview and successfully proved it."

The real Ben appeared.

After the report was published, it was questioned and criticized by public opinion including the Bitcoin community, but it also aroused great interest from the media. Reporters flocked to Dorian's home and even chased his car. However, in a formal interview later, Dorian denied all his connection with Bitcoin, saying that he had never heard of Bitcoin, but misunderstood Goodman's question and thought that she was asking about the confidential work she had taken over from the military.

Later that day, Satoshi Nakamoto himself stood up and denied this. His account at the P2P Foundation sent the first message after five years of dust, saying, "I'm not Dorian Ben."