Topic: The Newsweek Journo - page 2. (Read 2526 times)
complete fiasco
This will probably be unpopular but I'm going to trust the journo on the reporting of Dorian Nakamoto.
First though, I think she was wrong to a) contact him under the pretence of being interested in something model train related, and b) to publish his house & number and his license plate.
But reading up on her, she is a experienced, senior journalist and while journalism has basically been in decline over the past decade, good investigative reporting never goes out of fashion. If she has fabricated this, her career will be shot. Knowing the likely interest in the story, so too will the editor, the legal department and Newsweek itself. And, if untrue she owes the Nakamoto family a massive apology (that will probably be paid in $$).
I read that she worked on the story for two months which suggests it wasn't some poorly researched throwaway national Enquirer piece.
Mainly though:
The whole article is centred around DSN's alleged quote. If this quote is legitimate, as Goodman has claimed it is, then there really should be little doubt. It provides and admission, context and knowledge of Bitcoin. It would directly contradict DSN's later statement that he'd never heard of it until his son told him about it a few weeks earlier.
Im not going to go into the personal stuff about DSN, but those are my impressions, however misguided.
Funny too that there was never this much hullabaloo about the New Yorker piece or the other articles that have outed 'Satoshi'.
*puts on armour*
First though, I think she was wrong to a) contact him under the pretence of being interested in something model train related, and b) to publish his house & number and his license plate.
But reading up on her, she is a experienced, senior journalist and while journalism has basically been in decline over the past decade, good investigative reporting never goes out of fashion. If she has fabricated this, her career will be shot. Knowing the likely interest in the story, so too will the editor, the legal department and Newsweek itself. And, if untrue she owes the Nakamoto family a massive apology (that will probably be paid in $$).
I read that she worked on the story for two months which suggests it wasn't some poorly researched throwaway national Enquirer piece.
Mainly though:
The whole article is centred around DSN's alleged quote. If this quote is legitimate, as Goodman has claimed it is, then there really should be little doubt. It provides and admission, context and knowledge of Bitcoin. It would directly contradict DSN's later statement that he'd never heard of it until his son told him about it a few weeks earlier.
Im not going to go into the personal stuff about DSN, but those are my impressions, however misguided.
Funny too that there was never this much hullabaloo about the New Yorker piece or the other articles that have outed 'Satoshi'.
*puts on armour*
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