Does the U.S. government know the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto?

Prominent crypto lawyer James Murphy filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit

against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to uncover documents related to a claim meeting with Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator.

The lawsuit stems from statements by a DHS agent suggesting the agency met Nakamoto and three

others involved in Bitcoin's creation. Here is special agent Rana Saoud speaking at the offshore

alert conference on financial intelligence and investigations in 2019. We looked at Bitcoin.

It was the most prevalent at that point. We had seized quite a bit of it, millions of dollars

worth under the Silk Road investigation. So one of our agents who started looking at another

online marketplace through the deep web, which was called Black Market Reloaded. They were sending

weapons through packages and through ordering them on the dark web. And he was really, really smart, forward leaning agent.

And he goes, I want to go interview Satoshi Nakamoto.

And we're like, what?

He said, yeah, I want to go interview this guy.

And at the time, we're like, hey, it's a figment of somebody's imagination.

Maybe it's true.

Maybe it's not true.

So, you know, we had all this pushback from our headquarters and we thought, hey, if an agent wants to go talk to him and we have some money, why don't we send him? Let's find out how this works. So as

it came to be, the agent's flaw out to California and they realized that he wasn't alone in creating

this. There were three other people and they sat down and met with them and talked to them to find

out how this actually

works and what the reason for it was the dhs agent did not sound to me like she was lying intentionally

and she sounded like she believed very much what she was saying and there was great detail around

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