Los Angeles Times reporter Andrea Chang says she confronted the man — identified as 64-year-old Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto — at a sushi restaurant near his home in a Los Angeles suburbs and later at the Associated Press L.A. bureau. “I spoke with him at the restaurant and in the elevator at the AP. Denies everything,” she writes. “Told me in elevator that he’s not involved with #Bitcoin.”

The origins of Bitcoin make this supposed currency even more risky to invest your money, apart from all the lost coins from hacking.

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