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After Newsweek named Dorian Nakamoto as the bitcoin creator I remember reading a post on Hacker News where a coffee shop owner's wife remembered seeing the same man use bitcoin to pay for a coffee. Was there any truth to this story?


Eye witness testimony is notoriously bad. Confirmation Bias. Power of suggestion. etc.


Wouldn't surprise me: as I recall, there was a fund raised for him by some people in the community as a gesture for having been a victim of "Bitcoin blowback."




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