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Well the newsweek article also included a back and forth with a police officer that likely never happened, and they also just published an article that "proves" heaven exists because a former scientist went into a coma and saw some pretty things while dreaming. I'm not sure there's a high barrier to meet here, or that we can't assume he was misquoted in the original article.

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a back and forth with a police officer that likely never happened

I find this complaint ridiculous, like there's no possible way a police officer could know such things because otherwise they'd been a l33t h4x0r. Police officers read newspapers in about the same proportion as everyone else.

It's the nature of the quote that makes it seem like it comes out of a movie or something. It is still plausible he said that verbatim, but unlikely in my opinion.

Uh huh. Sure. An officer isn't aware of a digital currency that has been the topic of dozens of mainstream news reports over the past few months, and which had a strong relationship to drug and property crimes.

And knows the name of the creator of it offhand, and a concept of the creator's holdings?

The name Satoshi Nakamoto has appeared in The Good Wife, CSI, CSI NY, NCIS, NCIS LA, Big Bang Theory, Blue Bloods, Almost Human, and Scandal at some point in the last year.

So I'm pretty sure the name is no longer a tech community secret.

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