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2014
Event
incident
Newsweek names the wrong Satoshi
What happened
Newsweek published a cover story claiming Dorian Nakamoto was Bitcoin's creator. He denied it, the community rejected it, and the real Satoshi's account briefly stirred to post: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."
Significance
The most public failure of the Satoshi identity hunt, and a stark lesson in the harm of careless de-anonymization.