Little weave to show you The riddle of the father of Bitcoin

"The Newsweek of the father of Bitcoin" became the headline of the U.S. Tech Web site, Newsweek's journalist Lia McGrass Goudman, after a two-month investigation, locked the identity of the inventor of Bitcoin as a Ben Cong (Satoshi Nakamoto), a 64-year-old Japanese-American man. In other words, in fact, Bitcoin's algorithm inventor used on the Internet alias "In this Cong" is actually his real name!

McGrass Goudman interviewed Ben Cong's wife and daughter, as well as those bitcoin experts who had a close communication with him, and then sketched out one of these Ben Cong:

-He was born in Japan in 1949, moved to the United States at the age of 10, and was renamed Dolian Prentis Cong Chingben (Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto) After graduating from California State Polytechnic University in 1973, and signed as "Dorian S.."

-he had two younger brothers, but he was not close to them; he was married two times, had six children, had been separated from his current wife for years but had not been divorced, and was currently living in Temple City, California, with a 93-year-old mother. In the eyes of his family, he is a clever, introverted, somewhat eccentric, studious man,

-he has a penchant for collecting train models from his teens, often from England to order train model parts and to process, assemble and decorate them himself. McGrass Goudman once contacted him via email, which was provided by a train model seller.

-He is good at math and computer, has been working in engineering and technology, and has worked in the Hughes Aircraft Company, Quotron Bae, Nortel Network and other companies, also involved in the United States military confidential projects. He was laid off two times in the 1990s, and the family was once caught in a foreclosure that could not afford mortgages and taxes.

-he distrusted the banks and the government, hated being around them, and often took her as a child to play Hide-and-seek with "evading the government." His wife believes that his hostility to banks and the government may have something to do with previous distress life.

-he does not like to be cared for, never to admit to anyone that he is the "father of Bitcoin", in the Bitcoin Forum only discuss technical issues, anyone who asked about his personal identity and occupation of information, he will not ignore. He has been out of Bitcoin in recent years, probably because of poor health-he had a stroke and prostate cancer.

McGrass Goudman traced the residential address of Ben Cong and went to "camp", but in Ben Cong to be harassed as a call to the police, and in front of the police to the woman reporter's only answer is: "I have not been involved in the matter, and can not talk about it." The matter is now in the charge of other people and has no connection with me. Although the middle of the wise efforts to clear his relationship with Bitcoin, but his answer can be said to be "a sense of".

This report by Newsweek has aroused strong repercussions among American netizens the original text received thousands of comments in a matter of hours, but the biggest number was criticism-McGrass Goudman in the article with photographs of the houses in Ben Cong, which could be seen in his Toyota license plate. Many netizens have railed against this as a gross violation of privacy, while others have questioned Newsweek: "Will you give him 7 * 24 hours of round-the-clock bodyguards?"

McGrass Goudman In an interview with news website BuzzFeed said she was harmless to Ben Cong and her family, and netizens misunderstood her. In addition, she revealed that the investigation process in the Judge Ben Cong is "the father of Bitcoin" is mainly based on three points: first, the 2008 article on Bitcoin algorithm, mixed with British English and American English spelling, and Ching himself has the same spelling habits; The idea of Ching against the centralization of power by the government and the banks coincides with the essence of Bitcoin's "decentralization"; third, from the work experience and family description, in the knowledge of the invention of Bitcoin coin algorithm technology strength.

However, regardless of the reporter's intentions, the normal life of Ben Cong himself has undoubtedly been completely disrupted-the United States time on the afternoon of March 6, he decided to receive an interview with The Associated Press reporter, and the reporter drove to the Associated Press Los Angeles branch, And the many reporters who had been blocking his doorstep first mobbed him and followed him all the way, as the paparazzi chased the stars.