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RE: Will the real Satoshi please stand up – not Craig Wright but Paul Solotshi Le Roux
Indeed it could be the secret service who launched Bitcoin for some grand plan. I agree that it would be better the real Satoshi was never discovered.
I doubt it was the Secret Service, but it could have been a high-level government official who wouldn't want his identity known. During the Nixon Administration, a government information by the name of Deep Throat fed money to the press that ultimately led to Nixon's resignation over the Watergate affair. People speculated about his identity for years before he finally outed himself, about 15 years ago, not long before he died. It was W. Mark Felt, the Associate Director of the FBI, second in command. He had nothing to lose by outing himself at that time. It was history.