The Japanese American man Newsweek magazine claims is the founder of Bitcoin has denied he had anything to do with the digital currency. In an exclusive two-hour interview with the Associated Press news agency on Thursday, Dorian Nakamoto, 64, said he never heard of Bitcoin until his son told him he had been contacted by a reporter three weeks ago. Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Los Angeles.
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