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A crypto lawyer has sued the US Department of Homeland Security, alleging the bureau whitethorn cognize who created Bitcoin — compelling the section to stock what it knows.
The Freedom of Information Act suit was filed by James Murphy, who based his accusations connected claims made by DHS Special Agent Rana Saoud astatine a league successful April 2019, wherever she said a fewer of her colleagues had antecedently met with 4 radical progressive successful creating Bitcoin.
“My FOIA suit simply asks for the notes, email and different documents relating to that alleged interview,” Murphy posted to X aft announcing the April 7 suit.
“IF the interrogation truly happened arsenic the DHS Agent claimed, determination should beryllium documentation of the substance of that meeting,” added Murphy, who goes by MetaLawMan connected X.
Source: James Murphy
Speaking astatine the OffshoreAlert Conference North America successful Miami successful April 2019, Saoud said DHS agents met with the 4 radical it believed to person created Bitcoin, asking what their motives were and what the “end game” is for Bitcoin.
“The agents flew to California and they realized that helium wasn’t unsocial successful creating this, determination were 3 different people, they sat down and talked with them to find retired however this really works and what the crushed for it was,” Saoud said successful the presentation, which is disposable connected YouTube.
If the DHS resists disclosure, Murphy said helium volition “pursue the lawsuit to conclusion” to lick the mystery.
Murphy, however, noted that it is imaginable that Saoud and the different DHS agents were mistaken and did not interrogation the existent Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Murphy is being assisted by erstwhile Assistant US Attorney Brian Field, who specializes successful Freedom of Information Act litigation.
The intent of the Freedom of Information Act is to beforehand transparency and accountability by granting the nationalist entree to accusation held by the government.
Efforts to place Satoshi Nakamoto person failed
The suit follows a question of caller efforts attempting to uncover Satoshi’s identity.
Last October, a arguable HBO documentary claimed that Peter Todd, a Bitcoin cypherpunk, invented Bitcoin. Todd refuted that conclusion, and astir manufacture pundits said HBO’s grounds was weak.
Nick Szabo, Adam Back and Hal Finney person besides had their names tied to Satoshi’s identity. Szabo and Back regularly refute claims they’re Satoshi, arsenic did Finney earlier helium died successful 2013.
Meanwhile, members of the Bitcoin assemblage are divided connected whether unveiling Satoshi’s individuality would beryllium a nett affirmative for Bitcoin.
Some interest that revealing Satoshi's individuality could compromise Bitcoin’s decentralized ethos and enactment Satoshi’s information astatine risk, portion others privation to beryllium reassured that Bitcoin wasn’t created by the US government.
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