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There is demand that is sending the shares much higher today. Lets move onto to our big story, bitcoin founder unmasked. A japaneseidentified physicist living in Southern California as the creator of bitcoin. In the article, the face of quote, inakamato says, am no longer involved in that. It has been turned over to other people. Now we are hearing a different denying hisoto involvement in the virtual currency. I am here to clear my name that i have nothing to do with it going bitcoin. I was just an engineer doing something else. Nakamoto told the Associated Press he was understood misunderstood in the first time he heard of bitcoin was last month. We are joined by the author of the newsweek piece. Great to have you here. Lots of controversy over this. He basically now denying it. Do you stand by your story . Absolutely. I looked at all the Different Things he said in response to the query about what he thought we were talking about. Reporter we were talking about a company he is to work for. I was after he had read the story. Then i heard today it was something about another reporter had said he thought we were talking about a confidentiality agreement. The lead up to our discussion with each other had multiple times of me reaching out to him by email. I called them, i reached out to his son. Both times bitcoin was made clear. When i came to his home, i arrived and when he was not going to come to his door, we you were there with Police Officers . I initially just knocked when he was there but he did not answer his door. I left a note and a bit card and my business card. He kept all that. I left for two hours and returned. There was plenty of time to digest what i left and reach out. To now say that that was not clear, hard for me to believe. Over at Business Insider he says, baloney. Newsweek is off the mark. What do your critics get wrong . Some of these criticism and skepticism is ok. A lot of this is undocumented . A lot of it was documented. I dont care if it is a Forensic Research product. You have a lot of critics right now. This is your moment to say to them, you are all hot air. Why are they all hot air . I dont come off like that with everyone. I am saying that the details reported was 100 correct. All the research was true and all the backup research. Journalall street cannot confirm what newsweek said. Said toparently had you, i am no longer involved in that, referring to bitcoin. And i cannot discuss it. It has been turned over to other people and they are in charge of it now. Detailed to you what his original connection to bitcoin was . Absolutely not. He did not want to talk about bitcoin. He acknowledged the question. He understood we were talking about bitcoin. If he saying, im no longer involved in that no longer involved in that. Saying no longer involved to me does not say i am not involved in that. The last thing we said to each other was, i can knowledge to what he said and i said if you have no connection with bitcoin, you need to tell me now. Said, i cannot do that. That is setting up guilty until proved innocent. What is the direct evidence you have, whether he has verified it or not, that this gentleman change the Technology World with this currency . Dotsconnected all of these through Forensic Research. It is not about supporting what you think is true. Its about illuminating what you think a candidate may or may not represent. Candidates. Inating we cannot illuminate this man at all and in my confrontation with him, he confirms his involvement. Is that journalism that youre working on a construct where you are pulling away to we have eliminated these other people. There could be other people out there you could do the same action with. You can say, lets find reasons to support a person. The best way to do Forensic Research is to eliminate people, not the other way around. You dont say, i have a conjecture. Let me find every way to support it. I feel like it is sherlock holmes. In the Bitcoin Community are upset by this and it is created a lot of waves. Thest got an email from ceo of bit instant. For facing criminal charges money laundering. Charlie did reach out to me moments ago and he said, quote, this satoshi thing is a joke and the newsweek reporter has no evidence. It is what we have heard from people in the Bitcoin Community. Why would they want to be coming out against your story . The community has been clear that there reading into the idea of him being anonymous. Saying as stop reporters, its no big deal who did this. Being skeptical of certain details, kicking the tires more. I really do think there is more to that and im really happy asthis is not about bitcoin much as it is about pointer or any other Journalism Institute in that your wonderful story which created a huge splash is based on Forensic Research which is not evidence or first order condition that soandso did whatever they did. I dont consider it a lack of evidence at all. What is your evidence . Dont you answer the question for the world that is riveted by your important story . What is your evidence this guy is who he is . Youre saying there is no evidence . Im asking you what the evidence is. I stand by every word. If people want to say they dont feel it is compelling, thats fine. We would not be sitting here if people did not find it compelling. Lets be honest. Me, thats notto evidence and there is no evidence is not good enough. I would like to know how thats not good enough. Define Forensic Research again. I was talking about the process. You dont say, this guy could be it. This guy should be it and i were going to do reverse textual analysis. This is the first time i have had bayesian theory on text. We are arguing about what is evidence. Did he actually say to you, i created bitcoin . No. We would have quoted him. He said he was no longer involved in this. He was quite clear and it was clear it was bitcoin we are talking about. He had turned it over to others. Did he tell you that he invented this process . I could not continue the conversation at that point. The police indicated we could not talk anymore. They said he does not want to talk about it. He said he could not talk about it anymore and that was it. As a journalist what are you going to do . Fight with the police . Did not go anywhere. We will have more with you. Leah is trying to track down the real nakomoto. We will be right back with leah. We are joined again by the author of the newsweek hes, the face of bitcoin. A lot of controversy surrounding this piece. Nakomoto is, dorian denying that he actually is the founder and creator of bitcoin. Your piece says he is. Went into the reporting here. How long did you spend on this, how much time did it take you to try to track down this man . Ofit was two months excessively going through all kinds of information and mainly starting with all the candidates. Taking into account there could be a cipher. They could be a pseudonym. I did not think it could be someone named satoshi nakomoto. I saw a lot of people who said, what if it is. That was not my first feeling on it. It was only after going through all the satoshi nakomotos it lead you to someone on the west coast. Yes. At first i do not look at him as a good candidate. There was very Little Information on him and it was only as other things came up like the call from the brother talking about that he was involved in coding and programming what did he do to quote un quote create bitcoin . Write code . His whole background according to those closest to him was that which would inform the sort of coding that would be required for bitcoin. There are 10,000 people that are described by what you said. What are the attributes he displayed that lead you to connect the dots that he invented bitcoin . His career history. If 10,000 people fit all the attributes we looked at, i like to talk to those people because i did not find there were 10,000 people. You dothinking that if this, there have to be a group of people around him that where aware he was doing it at the time, right . Apparently not. Researchassed all this , your evidence. Did you present it to him . Did he have a chance to deny or confirm it . I spoke with him when i saw him and i reached out to him several times by email and by phone. Unfortunately he fell silent when i broached the topic. How did you reach him via email . Was it the one that is publicly available on bitcoin . No. I did reach out. Ofwith the identification gos guy the upper as we throughout the weekend, where would you like this debate to be monday morning . I love the phrase, a white bronco moment. It was a frenzy that this led to. Where will we be monday morning . I hope im not getting beaten to death. Where do you want the story to be monday . I would like everyone to continue looking at all of this and i would like to forensic was publiclyhich available im happy for people to continue to look at it, comment on it. Im hoping for more. This is very important. Show thissic research gentleman was a party to early bitcoin or quote unquote invented bitcoin . Yes. Does Forensic Research point to that . You cannot change your question halfway. I would like this debate to continue. Its really important we continue to talk about what these details are. Our Forensic Research led to him. We cannot find any reason to not continue asking this man if he is the man. If we can say hes not theres a lot of dispute in the community. Theres also a lot of questions in the journalism community. Today bloomberg tv sat down with tina brown, the former editor of newsweek. We asked her what happened, if they had gotten the identity of mr. Nakomoto wrong. Heres what she had to say. That would be rough. Im so glad im not the editor. [laughter] shes glad shes not the editor right now. Will this help or hurt your career . Not to beher comments very friendly to newsweek. I have a problem with the way she spoke about it. Theres a back story to that and she knows there is one. Brown was briefed on the story before it was released to the public . Of course not. As a back story to the relationship with tina brown and newsweek. Shes not an objective story. I dont think it was a source issue. I shake the commented on the story think she commented on the story. You can see it that way. Goodman, author of the face of bitcoin. Later on we will be joined by talk about this as well. We will speak with a former champion and human rights activist who says the u. S. Should be targeting russias oligarchs with sanctions, not the entire country. Time for todays global outlook. Putins grip remains firm in ukraine and there is concerns the crimea will be separated from the rest of the country. The u. S. Is bolstering defenses in the baltics, sending six warplanes yesterday and another dozen on the way. We are joined by the former adviser to the u. K. Ministry of defense. Michael is also a Fighter Pilot in the British Special forces. Is itind of message sending when we send 18 warplanes into the baltics . Will putin respond to this in any way . Ini dont think 18 warplanes the grand scheme of things is really going to bother putin too much. These are micro events that are effort toto make an seem to be doing something. Youbottom line is that if take a micro perspective on this, whichever way putin goes at the moment its the wrong way. Personally, putin has some significant undesired consequences with his actions in crimea at the moment that west should be seeking to exploit. A realcally, this is opportunity for america to get involved with the supply of gas to those countries within europe the really needed. Talking inssinger the last two days a lot. Henry kissinger really going away from the dialogue in washington. We have a vote happening march 16. That vote got moved up. The thought being that you might see crimea separated from the rest of ukraine. What does that mean to the stability of the region . If i was putin, a referendum with a potential outcome of crimea being annexed from ukraine is a nightmare. Comes about through the people of crimea, the local political movements. It is negotiated within a sovereign territory of the country is looking to be annexed from, so kiev. Does not have a political structure that has credibility. Russia, crimea and ukraine and couldest of the world ability that russia, crimea and ukraine and the rest of the world can be happy with. Who are they going to vote for . Are they going to vote for crime you going to russia, ukraine . Will they have the opportunity to vote for independence . A vote is not a test 50 of the result a vote that does not result,o 50 of the instability results. Michael k, thank you very much. Coming up, back to this bitcoin story with charlie shrem. We have been talking about that newsweek story that revealed the identity of the founder of bitcoin. That story has come under fire with a lot of people in the bitcoin and journalism communitys questioning whether the reporter did find satoshi nakomoto, the founder of bitcoin. Joining us on the phone is the ceo of bit instant, charlie shrem. Charlie has been through his share of experiences with bitcoin. Onnow you have been arrested connections with money laundering. You have denied those charges. Lets get to that in a moment. I would like to ask you about leahs story and your thoughts on whether or not she in fact found the real creator of bitcoin. Did she . I dont think so. Most people highly doubt it. Unfortunately, the satoshi na komoto institute as well as many bitcoiners such as myself could have given leah a lot of information and evidence to help with her investigation. The researchers she has and the researchers we have wouldve loved to Work Together with her on this. The articleso honoring his of mind rather than approaching the story with tact or respect, it has a shaming field. Instead of revealing identity of one of the most important technical thinkers since tesla or edison. This is what she wrote in her article. Ever sells his fortune, he would likely have to do so at a legitimate bitcoin bank or exchange, which would not only give away his identity but alert everyone from the irs its hisi of whereabouts. Bitcoin is not anonymous. Thats a lie. Revealnsactions transparency online. Newsweek do a profile on Mark Zuckerberg the same way . Than 28orth more billion and if he were to sell more of his facebook shares of course not. Creating innovation is not a crime. I shared with her your thoughts because you and i had corresponded via email. Heres her reaction. Id like you to hear it. They are very wedded to the idea of him being anonymous. Arge that weso l have to stop as reporters saying, its no big deal who did this. We need to ask these questions. Im ok with being skeptical of certain details, with kicking the tires more. I think theres more to this and im really happy i agree she is saying you and others in the Bitcoin Community want this creator to stay anonymous and that is why you would be so critical of her story. That is not true. We have put so many resources to try to help find or whoever wants to be involved in bitcoin. Over 75 of satoshis original code is not being used today. I put a link to my facebook saying, i found the real satoshi. Its the contributors who wrote the bitcoin code after satoshi left. Hes an amazing thinker of our time. Its a phrase she continues connect theh is dots. It is a deductive theory versus inductive. Brooklyn college for economics. You know the logic theory behind this. If you were searching for the founder of bitcoin, what process would you use to identify them instead of connecting the dots . First of all, i would analyze the information we have already. We have a ip analysis. We have a lot of different to finde can use satoshi. She brought a lot of new information any of that that you described in the newsweek article . Parte ignores an important usesays that satoshi double spaces after his period instead of one space. She gives examples of writing. Nakomoto barely speaks english. His writings that amazon reviews the guy can barely write. Well, he wanted to speak to a reporter. You have to read the white paper. Write as well as satoshi did on the white paper. You have been going through your own personal stress. You have been arrested in connection with bitcoin. You are denying the charges. What is it the feds do not understand what it is about what you are doing . I cannot really comment on my case at the moment. Its very new and everything. Im really looking forward to the dialogue with the other side , and hopefully educating them on bitcoin. There are a lot of real criminals out there and i have helped bring a lot of them to justice. I have been [inaudible] of the prosecutors who took me down for over a year, giving them voluntary information. Helping develop regulations around bitcoin companies. There are good regulators. Job by doing great a reddit and setting up the bitcoin hearing. Bitcoin is an unbelievable innovation and there are tons of bad actors out there. Arresting a guy who has been on the forefront since 20, helping ,hem bring down those bad guys they just put bitcoin underground. What will the future of bitcoin the . Be . Is it going to threaten the currency . Currency, anda what makes a currency have value is this payment system, the ability to email, send someone money or value or even assets. New projects are coming out where you can send assets. The ability to send value over the internet, where you dont have one centralized what of control point of control. About worldng changing as