Lawyer Sues US Government To Find Out Identity of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakomoto

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Daily Hodl2025/04/08 16:00

By:by Conor Devitt

Crypto lawyer James “MetaLawMan” Murphy is suing the US government to see if it’s hiding any information about the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin ( BTC ), Satoshi Nakamoto.

Murphy points to comments made by Rana Saoud, a special agent at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), at an OffshoreAlert conference in 2019.

Saoud claimed at the conference that multiple DHS agents “flew out to California” and interviewed Nakamoto and “three other people” who were also responsible for creating Bitcoin.

Murphy says he’s filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the DHS over Saoud’s comments to find out what the government actually knows about BTC’s mysterious creator.

“My FOIA lawsuit simply asks for the notes, emails and other documents relating to that alleged interview. IF the interview really happened as the DHS Agent claimed, there should be documentation of the substance of that meeting.

I would encourage DHS Secretary Noem to voluntarily disclose the information I requested. It is entirely possible that the DHS Agent was mistaken and DHS did not interview the real Satoshi. If DHS resists disclosure, I will pursue the case to conclusion to solve this mystery.”

Blockchain analysts estimate Nakamoto mined one million BTC, starting with the first 50 BTC reward for the genesis block on January 3rd, 2009. The last publicly verifiable online sighting of Satoshi was in December 2010.

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