American journalist and entrepreneur Dave Troy filed a request with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding the identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. The agency responded that they could neither confirm nor deny the existence of records about this.
1/Sigh, this just in from the FBI, which asserts that Satoshi Nakamoto, the apocryphal creator of Bitcoin, is a “third party individual,” and can neither confirm or deny the existence of any records on this person. Typically this is their answer for requests re: non-US persons. pic.twitter.com/oFVB4hHJcJ
— Dave Troy (@davetroy) August 13, 2024
The journalist filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the authorities, noting that he chose the “all other entities” form because a consortium or government organization could have been operating under the Nakamoto pseudonym.
In response to Troy’s request, the FBI sent what is known as a “Glomar Response,” a term used in American legal systems to describe a statement that is “neither confirmed nor denied” (NCND).
Troy emphasized that this is how the FBI responds to all inquiries that concern individuals without American citizenship. At the same time, he noted several points in the chosen wording that he found interesting:
- The journalist chose the form for “subjects,” but in the FBI’s response, it refers to Nakamoto as an individual, not an organization;
- The creator of Bitcoin was likely a third party with no connection to the FBI.
Troy also said he plans to appeal the answer in court to get more specifics.
It should be noted that who was hiding under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto still causes controversy in the cryptocurrency community. Previously, programmer Craig Wright attributed the creation of Bitcoin to himself, but the court proved the opposite.
Another popular theory is that it is Hal Finney, one of the project’s founding fathers, who died of complications from atherosclerosis in August 2014.
In the comments under Troy’s post, he was told that it was probably Finney who was working under the pseudonym Nakamoto. The journalist responded as follows:
The theory that Finney and Nakamoto are the same person was also debunked by cryptographer Jameson Lopp.
Source: Cryptocurrency
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