The FBI has given a standard "Glomar response" to a journalist's request for info on Satoshi Nakamoto. They won't confirm or deny having records on Bitcoin's creator.
Investigative journalist Dave Troy shared this development on X on August 13. The FBI's response hinted that Satoshi might be a "third party individual".
Troy plans to appeal the decision. He's not after Satoshi's identity. He just wants to know what the FBI has on the subject.
Satoshi's true identity has been a hot topic since 2008. That's when the Bitcoin whitepaper dropped. No one's cracked the code yet.
Some reckon it might be Hal Finney, an early Bitcoin contributor. Finney passed away in 2014. Troy thinks if the FBI thought Finney was Satoshi, they'd have no issue releasing his file.
This isn't the first time the FBI's played hard to get. A similar request in 2018 got the same non-answer.
Craig Wright, the Aussie computer scientist, has long claimed to be Satoshi. But he might be in hot water now. He could face perjury charges in a UK court for his statements.
In a plot twist, Wright recently slapped a legal disclaimer on his website. It says he's not Satoshi. This comes after eight years of saying he was.
We know next to nothing about the real Satoshi. Their P2P Foundation profile suggests an April 5, 1975 birthday. Go figure.
The last we heard from Satoshi was in 2011. They told developers they'd "moved on to other things". Talk about ghosting an entire community.
So, the Satoshi mystery continues. The FBI's tight-lipped response has only added fuel to the fire. It's got the crypto world buzzing again as we will probably never calm down about the fact we don't know the identity of the man who is responsible for all that crypto hysteria.