She claims that she mcgrath to find two leah officers walking up to Satoshi Nakamotos house? This is a really cruel goodman to do to a innocent man. Did she get a lead from the cops? I've seen even people in the bitcoin community imply that you confirmed Satoshi's identity with your twitter post. Verified Artists All Artists: Alcohol and Drug prohibitions were driven by often dubious bitcoin stories in the media Ever heard of crack babies?
See, we should really take down the link. What has kept him from spending his hundreds of millions of dollars of Bitcoin, which he reaped when he launched the currency years ago? He has been buying train parts from Japan and England since he was a teenager, saying, "I do machining myself, manual lathe, mill, surface grinders. Two weeks before our meeting in Temple City, I struck up an email correspondence with Satoshi Nakamoto, mostly discussing his interest in upgrading and modifying model steam trains with computer-aided design technologies. He's 64 years old.
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This story leah that journalist bitcoin never have made it into print in the old real Newsweek. She's pretending not to understand. She's going goodman get fired like a shotgun when this is revealed as a huge misprint. It makes a story of her story, leah brings mcgrath to read Newsweek. Newsweek eventually changed the photo mcgrath the house and bitcoin in the online story to make it harder to see the street number and not possible to see the goodman plate.
McGrath Goodman was born in Boston, Massachusetts ; her parents were a teacher and an artist. Bonaventure University in with a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science. In , UK politician John Hemming tabled an early day motion regarding the withdrawal of McGrath Goodman's UK visa, because she had been prevented from entering the UK after declaring her intentions to investigate allegations of a cover-up regarding the Jersey child abuse investigation , despite having a clean immigration and travel record.
In , the ban was lifted and a new visa granted after a campaign by British politicians and journalists. A major new inquiry into the abuse scandal led by a senior UK judge was also announced. In a March Newsweek magazine cover story, McGrath Goodman published what she asserted to be the identity and location of Satoshi Nakamoto , the inventor of bitcoin.
It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection. But the outrage was not limited to anonymous comments. One of the story's main sources, top Bitcoin developer Gavin Andreson, tweeted:. I'm disappointed Newsweek decided to dox the Nakamoto family, and regret talking to Leah. So how much of this fury was warranted? Maybe not all of it: The identity of Bitcoin's founder is a legitimate story that Newsweek was clearly right to publish.
But Newsweek also pushed the envelope in its presentation of the story, including that house-and-car photo, about which it apparently had second thoughts.
Goodman defended publication of the photo, claiming his home address was public information anyway and tweeting that she and Newsweek "felt showing he lives humbly, despite his achievement, was both telling and inspiring.
He's 64 years old. I do believe there is a responsible way to go about investigative reporting. That was an opportunity missed. With that said, I lodge my partial support.
Not with this looming liability. At this point I think Ms. Goodman is a liar. I doubt her credibility very much. She's making it sound like a team of linguistic experts all agreed the writing of the two men matched up.
Dear Leah McGrath, with all due respect to you and your employer.. What else am I going to call 'disk space'. I may call it hard drive when referring to the physical hardware but if I'm referring to storage capacity in an academic paper I'm going to call it 'disk space' as is still often done in the current academic community. She didn't mean that it's an outdated term. She meant that disk space is no longer an issue for programmers. Disk space used to be a concern when hard drives weren't very large.
Now that you can get terabytes for cheap, programmers don't really care how much disk space their apps consume. That said, this isn't an "odd reference. Disk space was a legitimate concern for bitcoin and it wasn't odd for Satoshi to mention it in his paper. I don't think she fully comprehends what she did Congratulations Leah McGrath on your pile-of-flaming-garbage story and the shitty methods you and your forensic specialists utilized to craft it.
I would also like to extend the congratulations to your editors and publisher, as they dun goofed , bigtime. The methods you utilized to find "Satoshi Nakamoto" were utterly retarded, you have about as much evidence that Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto is actually the Satoshi Nakamoto as you have evidence proving that Dorian Satoshi Nakmoto is actually the Loch Ness Monster.
Am I the only one thinking this is probably one of the most digitally dangerous shark tanks to jump into and piss off? I say this feeling like Adam Sandler in Longest Yard Not that she's really difficult to find since she's a journalist or something and puts her name everywhere. I just had a random-dumb thought the bitch probably did this to try and drag herself into the limelight. I can see a TV interview "How the fuck did you think you had the right guy?
That's all the internet is right? I think what Newsweek did is wrong and they should have worked to protect Dorian's privacy, but I also think reasonable people will disagree about where to draw the line between "the public has a right to know" and "we all have a right to privacy.
You're too damn reasonable for this community Gavin. I'm a big fan of your levelheadedness in an Absolutely speculative AND definitely an infringement of this man's privacy. She has put this individual and his family at risk by exposing so many details. Where were the Newsweek editors? Ms McGrath Goodman is overwhelmed by the doxxing backlash, did an video interview.
Several reporters have noted Reddit responses, already published articles. Check them all out here http: Here's what doesn't make sense to me. He goes to such lengths to avoid detection, but supposedly uses part of his real name? This doesn't smell right to me. Just might want to hit some of the many folks doing great work in this space who actually NEED Bitcoins.
This woman clearly lied misled? Gavin, probably Dorian's family members initially , the model train maker.. We have a pattern of deceit. What if "I'm not involved in that anymore" was really "I'm not involved in that at all " and she took the liberty of mishearing?
Initially after reading this piece I was furious that she violated a man's privacy who clearly wanted nothing but privacy. The more I think about it, her smoking gun is a few words that could have been misheard or frankly pulled out of her ass.
This woman, and I avoid the word "journalist" intentionally, is despicable. This poor guy is most likely not even Satoshi and is going to be harassed for the rest of his life now. What a shitty thing to do. I'm not normally of supporter of this subreddit with its circle jerk, but you guys did the right thing by calling out this asshole of a reporter for seriously invading the privacy of this individual whether he's the real Satoshi or no.
The editors at Newsweek aren't stupid. If this man isn't Satoshi, and gets harassed as a result of Leah's article, they've opened themselves up to a law suit. Gavin says the right things here thank you. But lets not get too far ahead of ourselves here.. One of the few rules this place has. Good point, thank you.. I have indeed seen attempts at a "countergoxxing" of the author deleted. I am drawing my own conclusions regarding how to read things in the disinformation age.
My take on that: Newspaper until the 20th century were almost always partisan mouthpieces. The NYT whitewashed Stalinism.
Alcohol and Drug prohibitions were driven by often dubious scare stories in the media Ever heard of crack babies? So cheer up, we're actually now aware of how bad things are. That's the first step towards fixing the problem. I'm glad you came out and said this, i was disappointed to see you quoted so often in the article.
I take it she didn't reveal the full content of the piece when she interviewed you for it? Could be that this Satoshi is not the real one, but had heard about the real one and bought some Bitcoin at one time.
Now he's getting grilled, and just wanted to absolve himself of it. Maybe he doesn't want Bitcoin pinned on him and regretted that he ever tried owning any of it. So the whole thing really is circumstantial. Isn't it his relatives who are most at risk here?
If I've learned one thing from action movies it's that you extort someone by kidnapping their loved ones, not them. I'm not even buying that he said "Anymore". Every single video clip of him shows he carefully states everything in present tense. He has not said a single thing in past tense. Its always "I am not involved with that". If Leah McGrath lacks the moral fiber to give a sh about someone's privacy for her own personal gain, what's stopping her from adding an all important word to the end of his sentence?
Guy who worked hard to give the world something and be anonymous is now in the crosshairs - he might get killed, abducted - people might think he has some keys or a massive stash of a billion dollars of bitcoin on a flashdrive around his neck.
It's ok to put someone at risk if they've made a cryptocurrency, but hell no if they've been in porn? That makes total sense. If it was Leah McGrath investigating who some Duke University porn star was because "she thought it was a human interest story and wanted to know more about why she did porn" it would be all kinds of fucking insane.
It's not in the public interest - ergo this is tabloid journalism, she's basically celeb stalking someone who is anonymous. Not one shred of evidence, "two months" of journalism for a 1 minute embellished confrontation in a driveway, and they make this a cover story and ruin someone's life.
I predict this is Newsweek's last chance to keep from going under for good. This special print edition is a gimmick. This whole thing is planned and staged and this Dorian guy is just some unlucky bastard who was born with the wrong name.
Its obvious that this l. I predict this whole thing goes away in a few weeks. BTW, the Newsweek you remember is long gone. The only thing left was the name and that was sold to these new characters. Its a shame that they tarnish the name with this "journalism" after it being a trustworthy news source that was in print for more than 80 years.
This story and that journalist would never have made it into print in the old real Newsweek. That was a news magazine that prided itself on the truth. This is a ripoff of the name and has proven, with its first issue, to be a National Enquirer wannabee. How sad for those of us who appreciated the old real Newsweek. Consider this man's life ruined! So her posting the information is wrong, but the people now digging through Google on Dorian S Nakamoto searches aren't? What you post online under your own name in open forums is largely considered to be in the public domain.
I posted this to reddit and I was in two minds as to whether I was right to do so or not. The email was submitted as part of a public consultation so Dorian accepted that this piece would become part of the public domain.
His email on the other hand maybe shouldn't be in the public domain so I redacted that in the image that I posted. Unfortunately there was no way to prove authenticity without providing the source and the source has his full email address. My motive is clear I want to prove this man is not Satoshi so he can get on with the rest of his life in tranquillity. I certainly condone anyone who tries to email or phone him or even leave comments on things he has posted online.
But I see there is a blurred line between harassment, invasion of privacy and investigation and my post was clearly within that blurred zone. After thinking about this.. That quote from the cop is bad writing.. He didn't say that. This "reporter" is trying for fame.. This guy isn't Bitcoin's Satoshi. He might be playing along for some reason,maybe being paid to do so. What I do know is this reporter put this guy's life in danger to further her career. And for that, she should be destroyed professionally.