Mysterious Mr Nakamoto author: Finding Satoshi would hurt Bitcoin

Author Benjamin Wallace searched for years to find the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto but concluded the mystery is more valuable unsolved.

Benjamin Wallace has an amusingly direct way of trying to solve the identity of Bitcoins creator in his book The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto.

He just asks every possible candidate: Are you Satoshi Nakamoto?

I still didnt rule out the possibility that Nakamoto was frustrated no one had bothered to simply ask him, Wallace writes.

It seems like every other week, theres another newspaper investigation, documentary or nonfiction book promising to unmask Satoshi. 

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