The CIA can neither deny nor confirm the existence of information about Satoshi Nakamoto

Ever since a person or group of people created Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008, many in the cryptocurrency community have been trying to determine the true identity of the creator of the first cryptocurrency. But all attempts up to this time had been unsuccessful.

 In 2013, the New York Times reported that there was compelling evidence that Nakamoto was Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road marketplace on the dark web. 

The most infamous attempt was a 2014 "exposure" in which Newsweek tracked down a man in California named Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, who certainly could not have had anything to do with the development of Bitcoin. Also, no one will forget how Craig Wright, the current chief blockchain specialist of the nChain company, said that he was the true Nakamoto, but could not provide convincing evidence.

In 2016, blogger Alexander Myus published a post saying that the National Agency US Security Service determined the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto using stylometry, which analyzes a person's writing style to determine identity and looks for matches in emails collected in the PRISM surveillance program. However, a source from the US Department of Homeland Security did not reveal to Muse the identity of the real Nakamoto, although he submitted an official request to the department.

Muse recently decided to ask the FBI and CIA what they knew about Nakamoto's identity. The request to the FBI is still pending, but the CIA rejected the request, saying that the agency could neither confirm nor deny the existence of the requested data.

Even if the CIA does know who Nakamoto is, it is not eager to share this information. Perhaps, in its response to the request, the FBI will be more compliant with the implementation of the US Freedom of Information Act, Muse hopes.

According to motherboard.vice.