- US lawyer, James Murphy better known by his X username of MetaLawMan has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit with the US Department of Homeland Security seeking documents relating to an alleged in-person interview with Satoshi Nakamoto.
- Murphy claims comments made by a DHS agent at a 2019 conference revealed that this in-person interview took place, and called on DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, to voluntarily release any documents related to the interview.
Seeking to unearth documents he says may reveal the identity of Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, US lawyer James Murphy better known by his X / Twitter username MetaLawMan has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Posting on X, Murphy called Satoshi Nakamotos true identity The Great Mystery of the 21st Century and alleged the US government claims to know the answer, but refuses to share this knowledge.
Murphy said the truth of Satoshis identity may lie in the documents hes seeking, which he said concern claims made by a high-ranking Special Agent of DHS that DHS had found and interviewed (in person) bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. According to Murphy, the DHS agent made these claims publicly at the Offshore Alert Conference on Financial Intelligence & Investigations in 2019.
The Agent claimed that DHS agents interviewed Satoshi in California in person and, they learned, 3 other people helped Satoshi create bitcoin.
James Murphy, aka MetaLawMan
His FOIA lawsuit seeks all notes, emails and other documentation related to the purported DHS interview with Satoshi. He notes the agent could have been mistaken about whether they were speaking to the real Satoshi.
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Murphy also called on the DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, to voluntarily release the documents, but said that if she refuses hell pursue the case to conclusion to solve this mystery.
Not everyone is on board with Murphys crusade to unmask Satoshi though. High profile crypto investigator, ZachXBT, responded on X: No one needs to know the identity of Satoshi. ZachXBT said that Murphys FOIA request makes him look like an attention seeking clown trying to get clicks.
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At the moment all we really know for sure about Satoshis true identity is that Australian IT guy, Craig Wright, definitely isnt Satoshi.
Thats 1 human out of 8.2 billion ruled out not a bad start.
Other than that weve mostly just got speculation.
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A documentary released last year claimed to have solved the mystery, finding that Canadian software developer Peter Todd was the Bitcoin creator. But Todd himself flat out denied it and most experts consider it extremely unlikely.
Another high profile revelation of Satoshis identity came in 2014 when Newsweek identified a man known as Dorian Nakamoto as the creator of Bitcoin. Dorian Nakamoto was claimed to have several notable similarities with Satoshi, but again he strenuously denied being behind the OG cryptocurrency and most experts doubt hes Satoshi.
Related: Late Cryptographer Len Sassaman Speculated as Satoshi Nakamoto by Polymarket Bettors
Other possible suspects include Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, early Bitcoin developer and recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction, Hal Finney, and American cryptographer Len Sassaman.
