No, Musk is not Nakamoto, and his bitcoin location remains a mystery
Dubai/London — Not only does Elon Musk deny being the mysterious creator of bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto, but he’s also forgotten where he keeps his crypto-currency. Musk’s assertions came in response to a blog post coursing through digital-currency sites that suggested the PayPal co-founder and Tesla CEO himself is probably the bitcoin originator who used the alias Nakamoto. "Not true," Musk said Tuesday in a tweet. "A friend sent me part of a BTC a few years [ago], but I don’t know where it is." The banter coincides with bitcoin approaching $10,000 for the first time, bringing this year’s price surge to almost 11-fold even as warnings multiply that the largest digital currency has become an asset bubble. Should it bust the benchmark today, bitcoin’s $167bn value would exceed that of about 95% of the S&P 500 Index members. The post on Musk, published on the Medium blog platform last week, based its argument on Musk’s technical expertise, comparing him with US inventor and founding fath...
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