While the Crypto community has long been used to speculation about who is sitting behind the name Satoshi Nakamoto, a recent legal move by lawyer James Murphy – known as Metalawman – has risen the conversation again in unexpected directions, including the direction of Ripple Technology David Schwartz.
Murphy has brought a lawsuit against the US Department of Interior Security, insisted on the release of documents that, according to his argument, can shed light on meetings that are reportedly kept between the agency and persons related to the early development of Bitcoin.
Murphy seems to believe that somewhere in those files the missing link could lie that can eventually be added a real-world identity to Bitcoin’s Mystery Founder.
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While the crypto world of this was the wind, the wrinkle effect led some enthusiasts to visit old theories about who could be Satoshi, and again, the name of Schwartz came into the chat.
Given his extensive cryptography -background, his role as one of the most important architects of the XRP whides and his deep involvement in blockchain infrastructure, it is not exactly surprising that his name occasionally appears in these types of conversations -even if he has tackled the idea earlier.
On a typical crypto-twitter way, someone made jokes that if Schwartz was Satoshi, this might be a pretty good time to take the money and run.
His reaction? A tongue-in-cheek nods in the form of a poison from South Park, where a character explains that the money has disappeared-a light, somewhat ironic gesture that the absurdity of the speculation seemed to recognize without giving it too much weight.
Schwartz previously clarified that until 2011 he became unaware of Bitcoin, which was well after the launch, and was consistent to say that although he might have had the skills, he was not involved.
Yet the curiosity about the identity of Nakamoto never disappears completely – it just shifts with the headlines.