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Newsweek seemed to crack the case of who founded Bitcoin at a fortuitous time this week when it identified a 64-year-old physicist as the cryptocurrency’s father in the magazine’s first issue back in print. But hours after Newsweek published a profile of Dorian S. Nakamoto, the former defense industry and government employee was chased by reporters through Los Angeles and denied any role in Bitcoin, saying he first heard of it three weeks ago.

“I’m not involved in Bitcoin,” Mr. Nakamoto told journalists yesterday outside his home in a Temple City neighborhood. The group then trailed him in a multi-vehicle car chase yesterday as he fled to an Associated Press bureau. The AP later wrote that he insisted during a two-hour interview that he first heard of Bitcoin when a reporter contacted his son last month.

Journalists, bloggers and others have sought for years to identify the mysterious computer coder who wrote a paper on Bitcoin’s framework and created the software that serves as its backbone. The initial document carried the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, and because the author or authors otherwise chose to remain private and anonymous, it had been widely assumed the name was a pseudonym.

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