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		vadym909 on Aug 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coinbase raises $100M Series D led by IVP Unrelated, but it still blows my mind- that the creator of this cryptosystem thats now worth $50B is still unknown. He has to have been lived somewhere, gone to school somewhere, studied, worked somewhere, left some track somewhere about who he was.

keypusher on Aug 11, 2017 [–]

Dave Kleiman - Look him up. It's actually all a kind of sad and sordid story. The myth is far better than the reality.

sillysaurus3 on Aug 11, 2017 | [–]

I think that story was largely debunked. It even turned into a dicey situation for gwern, though I respect his commitment to chasing down a lead.

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