Dorian Nakamoto
This celebrity goo was created by player Erik Bates.
publication date: Sunday, August 11, 2019 (part of Summer 2019)
category: Inventions
clue: Even if a good man wrote 100,000,000 articles about this guy, we still wouldn't know if he was who we were looking for.
explanation: Dorian Nakamoto was exposed by journalist Leah McGrath Goodman ("good man") in a Newsweek article as the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Despite the article, there is still widespread disagreement as to who the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is. In Bitcoin parlance, one "satoshi" is the equivalent of one hundred millionth of a single Bitcoin. more…
intended difficulty: very hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Chris Lemler, and Scott Hardie