Texas Hacker Debunks Link Between Bitcoin Founder and Online Drug Market

Source : Dustin Trammell

Israeli academics Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir thought they may have uncovered an intriguing link between the anonymous creator of the bitcoin digital currency and the illicit online drug marketplace the Silk Road. But it turns out the idea was bunk.

This past weekend, the two researchers published an article describing what they thought might be a transaction between Bitcoin’s founder — who is known only by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto — and the founder of The Silk Road, which was shutdown by the feds earlier this year. But now an Austin, Texas man has come forward to claim ownership of the bitcoin account they thought was Nakamoto’s.

From Wired