As Bitcoin surges in value, Elon Musk denies he's its mysterious inventor
Elon Musk is a lot of things. Billionaire, space adventurer, transport revolutionary, but not, he says, the inventor of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency coin that crossed the $10,000 valuation threshold early on Tuesday.
Musk, co-founder of PayPal, Tesla boss and CEO of Space Exploration Technologies, responded to a blogpost circulating on several crypto-currency sites claiming that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of bitcoin who has never been conclusively identified.“Not true,” Musk said on Tuesday in a tweet. “A friend sent me part of a BTC [bitcoin] a few years, but I don’t know where it is.” Musk was responding to a post on Medium last week in which writer Sahil Gupta floated the idea that based on Musk’s history of innovation across tech disciplines, his understanding of economics and cryptography and his coding abilities, it was possible that he was the author of the original document that proposed a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.