The MotherBoard media reported that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States did not affirm or deny the existence of the real identity of the Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. The information was released on June 14 by a publication on the middle page.
One of the correspondents of MotherBoard, specialist more than anything in matters of physics, space and cryptocurrencies presented "a request of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) before the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the CIA, requesting information about the Satoshi's identity. "
Said representative informed that although his document with the FBI is still pending, he received a response "Glomar" from the CIA, which refers to a replication of the request for information that "does not confirm or deny" (NCND) the existence of the requested information.
The CIA responded :
"The request has been rejected, and the agency says it can not confirm or deny the existence of the requested documents."
Daniel Oberhaus, correspondent of MotherBoard who requested the information, also pointed out that the Glomar response has been a notorious practice of the CIA, citing the first tweet of the agency in June 2014 as an example:
Oberhaus suggested that if the FBI and / or the CIA know something about the creator of Bitcoin, "they do not want to say it."
The issue of Satoshi Nakamoto's identity has been one of the biggest mysteries in the crypto community since the arrival of Bitcoin in 2008. Several reports and media documents have tried to reveal this information to different groups that support and sympathize with the creation of the asset in question, but Oberhaus claims that they have not been "very successful".
The first time an attempt was made to reveal Satoshi's identity was in October 2011 when Joshua Davis wrote an article for The New Yorker that pointed to Nakamoto as a thirty-one-year-old Finnish researcher at the Helsinki Institute of Information Technology Vili Lehdonvirta. The person eventually claimed that he was not Satoshi, adding that "even if it were really he would not say it".
In 2014, the Newsweek newspaper reported on a Japanese man living in the United States whose name was Satoshi Nakamoto, and who once discovered by journalists, claimed to be the creator of Bitcoin. This gave rise to a thorough investigation that subsequently confirmed that he was not the "real" Satoshi.
CoinTelegraph also reports that in 2016, Gizmodo published a story about Craig Wright, who publicly announced that he was Satoshi. The Australian computer scientist and businessman has made many controversial statements throughout his career, and later that same year, he could not substantiate his claims that he was the creator of Bitcoin.
And so there are hundreds of cases in which different individuals have said they know or even be the creators of the first cryptoactive. Apparently, from what you see, we will not know who it is for a long time, and there is the possibility of never knowing. If Satoshi wants to remain in hiding, there must be a reason for it.
Source: CoinTelegraph