Report: CIA Neither Confirms nor Denies Knowledge of True Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has "Neither [confirmed] nor [denied] the existence" of information regarding the real identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Motherboard reported June 14.

Motherboard's Daniel Oberhaus, who mainly covers topics on physics, space, cryptocurrency, and the future of energy, submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and to the CIA, requesting information regarding the identity of Satoshi.

Oberhaus reported that while his request with the FBI is still open, he received a reply from the CIA that was a "Glomar response," which refers to a response to a request of information that "Neither confirms nor denies" the existence of the requested information.

"The request has been rejected, with the agency stating that it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the requested documents."

The question of the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto has been one of the biggest mysteries in the crypto community since Bitcoin was launched in 2008.

The first attempt to reveal Satoshi's identity goes back to October 2011, just a few months after Satoshi went silent.

In 2014, Newsweek reported on a Japanese-American man name Satoshi Nakamoto in California who once discovered by journalists, claimed to be the Bitcoin creator.

After a lengthy investigation, it was discovered that he was not the "Real" Satoshi.

In 2016, Gizmodo published a story about Craig Wright, who publicly announced he was Satoshi.

Alexander Muse wrote on his blog Cryptomuse that the U.S. National Security Agency had identified the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto using stylometry.