Unmasking Mr Bitcoin

‘Newsweek’ says Satoshi Nakamoto is the creator of cyber currency bitcoin, but the cantankerous, obsessively private engineer has denied it. So is the magazine right, asks Dan Buckley

TO TECH nerds it was the equivalent of the Fourth Secret of Fatima: a magical mystery best left alone and unsolved.

Which is why the identity of the creator of the bitcoin — long known only as “Satoshi Nakamoto” — was a closely guarded secret.