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Elon Musk totally didn't invent Bitcoin, you guys

November 28, 2017

Elon Musk wants to make one thing very clear: He did not invent Bitcoin, the monetary bubble cryptocurrency that recently shot up to a $10,000 valuation.

The eccentric, sensitive billionaire denied claims he is secretly Bitcoin’s mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto, who has stayed out of the public eye since publishing the paper that outlined the peer-to-peer currency in 2008. 

The theory came in the form of a Medium post by former SpaceX intern Sahil Gupta. Gupta pointed to several factors that pin the invention to Musk, like his background in economics and cryptography as well as his likelihood to adopt a sophomoric alias that serves as an anagram for the phrase “So a man took a shit.” (You might remember the time Musk publicly expressed disappointment when the names of Tesla’s first three vehicles were blocked from spelling out SEX.) Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Elon Musk totally didn't invent Bitcoin, you guys

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